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UsermavenRating
4.5/5
Summary
A customisable and free web analytics tool. Get insights into user behavior with an event-based tracking model, and know what drives sales and traffic with extensive attribution methods.
Give your teams a self-service digital analytics platform to understand your users, drive conversions, and increase engagement, growth and revenue. Ideal for product or gowth teams.
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.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
- GA4 is free to use
- Many functionalities
- The reports are customisable
- Large community
- Extensive documentation
- GA4 is easily scalable
- Simple & Intuïtive
- User segmentation
- Data visualisations
- Feature Analytics
- Open-source
- Simple to understand interface
- You own your data
- Provacy-friendly
- Lightweight script (2kb)
- AI-powered attribution
- Combined web + product analytics
- Auto-capture without developers
- Privacy-friendly
Cons
- Steep learning curve
- Implementation can be hard
- Inaccurate data sampling
- UI is not easy to use
- Dashboard customisation
- Limited free plan
- User support access
- Pricing transparency
- Not a great amount of features
- Relatively new player
- No self-hosting option
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Standard | Free |
| GA4 360 | $50k+ per year |
| Starter | Free |
| Growth | $49+ p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
100
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
Unlimited for all plans
3+ depending on plan
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 Kingdom
- 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
Google Analytics 4
You
You
You
Data Freshness
4-8 hours (most reports), up to 24-48 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Customizable up to 14 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Explorations might use sampled data
Umami does not sample data
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost, offline or user/client ID data
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
With sheets, BigQuery or API
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
via API as JSON file
Via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Umami Analytics does not use cookies
Cookieless tracking available
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Custom insights, in interface or via email
for Business & Enterprise plans
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Recurring shared reporting
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS and more
Funnel Reporting
Customisable funnel exploration
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Flexible Sankey chart exploration
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
User journey analysis
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Segment creation and overlap exploration
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Cohort exploration
Retention Reporting
Combined with CLTV metrics
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Attribution models comparison
UTM & channel attribution
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Extensive e-commerce reports
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Revenue tracking
Revenue attribution
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
GA4 does not offer heatmaps
Session Recordings
GA4 does not offer recordings
Session Replay
Session replays
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
25 user-scoped & 50 event-scoped dimensions
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
50 event-scoped metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
All reports are customisable
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
25 parameters per event
Create a custom event from existing events
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Notes feature added in 2024
Support
Support description
Support is available via chat and the support center.
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them via e-mail.
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
Support Options
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community