✓ 100% independent✓ Most complete overview✓ Free expert advice
New MetricsTake the quiz

Compare

Compare Analytics Tools

Rating
Summary
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
  • Privacy focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
  • 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
  • Limited features due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version
  • 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
Starter€15 p/m
Business€40 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
FullstoryFreeFree
BusinessOn req.
AdvancedOn req.
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
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

Data Processing

Data Center Locations
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • 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
Data Ownership
You
Pendo
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Unlimited
84 months
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Data Import
GA importer included
Import historical data by CSV
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
User segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce 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
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
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations

Support

Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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
Add a tool

Looking for more answers?

Check out our knowledge base for more articles on analytics, tracking and privacy.

Go to the knowledge base