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Summary
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
An open-source marketing analytics tool that respects data-privacy. With two hosting options, it is completely cookieless and it lets you own all your data.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • Great segmentation
  • Good video tracking
  • Customizable
  • Easy report creation
  • Open-source
  • Simple to understand interface
  • You own your data
  • Provacy-friendly
  • Lightweight script (2kb)
  • Permanent free plan with session replay
  • Choice of EU or US data center
  • SOC 2 and ISO 27001, 27701 and 42001 certifications
  • Warehouse sync to BigQuery, Snowflake and Redshift
Cons
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Pricing can be quite steep
  • Tech support can be improved
  • Can be difficult to implement
  • Can be challenging to get educated
  • Not a great amount of features
  • Paid prices not published
  • Dashboards and StoryAI not in the free plan
  • Alerts and retention reports need an Advanced or Enterprise plan
  • Moving to the EU data center means opening a new account

Pricing information

Starting Price
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
SelectOn req.
PrimeOn req.
UltimateOn req.
FullstoryFreeFree
BusinessOn req.
AdvancedOn req.
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
10 on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Account Security
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication
  • Single Sign-on
  • Two-factor Authentication

Data Processing

Data Center Locations
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
Software Hosting
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
Mixpanel
Adobe Analytics
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
2 hours
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
25 months by default
Unlimited
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
Via raw data export API
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
via API as JSON file
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Umami Analytics does not use cookies
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Via e-mail or SMS
for Business & Enterprise plans
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
Flexible scheduled reporting

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
Bar chart funnel report
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
User journey analysis
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
User segments
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Retention cohort report
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
Revenue tracking
Order Completed and Product Purchased events

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Called activity map
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Session replays
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
Experiments
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys add-on

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
Up to 1.000 success events
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Available in Workspace

Support

Support description
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
The support of Adobe Analytics consists of an expansive knowledge base and an online community. Phone and chat options exist for certain user types. Besides that, they offer many training options and tutorials.
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them via e-mail.
Support is by email and support ticket during regional weekday business hours, with a help center and community forum. Free plan tickets have a 2 business day response target, paying customers 1 business day. A Premium Support add-on gives 24/7 critical support. The FullstoryFree help article lists email support as a paid plan feature, while the support hours article lists a response target for free plan customers.
Support Options
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community

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