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4/5
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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.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Ultimate open-source analytics to satisfy all your needs. Track every metric you need without invading your users' privacy.
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
  • Easy to use
  • Great tagging feature
  • Attentive support team
  • Privacy-focused
  • Performance monitoring
  • Open-source
  • Browser extensions for quick access to analytics
  • Messenger integrations
  • 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
  • New version can be glitchy
  • Slight learning curve for beginners
  • Limited integration capabilities
  • 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.
Hobby$5 / mo
Freelancer$15 / mo
Startup$59 / mo
Enterprise$110 / mo
FullstoryFreeFree
BusinessOn req.
AdvancedOn req.
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
7 days
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
  • 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
Lucky Orange
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Unlimited
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Swetrix does not sample data
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
Via raw data export API
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • CPPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
User segments
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Order Completed and Product Purchased events

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
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
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Receive custom reports by email. You can also add unlimited amount of email addresses to be subscribed to the traffic report newsletter.
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
You can track custom events. Custom events also support lots of customisations (e.g. you may track if you want 1 custom event per 1 unique session, etc).
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Soon to be released

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.
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
Swetrix offers online support in the chatbox on the website, via social-media (i.e. Twitter, Linkedin, Discord) and via Email.
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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