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Summary
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.
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
Pros
- Simple & Intuïtive
- User segmentation
- Data visualisations
- Feature Analytics
- Ease of use
- Great authorisation management
- Packed with features
- Community forum
- Intergrated tag & consent management
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- Great segmentation
- Good video tracking
- Customizable
- Easy report creation
Cons
- Dashboard customisation
- Limited free plan
- User support access
- Pricing transparency
- No progressive payment plan
- Ecommerce reporting can be improved
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Pricing can be quite steep
- Tech support can be improved
- Can be difficult to implement
- Can be challenging to get educated
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Starter | Free |
| Growth | $49+ p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Core - 500k | €35 p/m |
| Enterprise | €366 p/m |
| 10k page views | $9 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 200k page views | $29 p/m |
| 100k page views | $19 p/m |
| 500k page views | $49 p/m |
| 1M page views | $69 p/m |
| 2M page views | $89 p/m |
| 5M page views | $129 p/m |
| 10M page views | $169 p/m |
| Select | On req. |
| Prime | On req. |
| Ultimate | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
30 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited for all plans
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
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
You
You
You
Adobe Analytics
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 min
Realtime
2 hours
Data Retention
Unlimited
Up to 25 months
3-5+ years depending on plan
25 months by default
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
e.g. import GA data
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Export your data to CSV
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- LGPD
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
Cookieless
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Via e-mail or SMS
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Flexible scheduled reporting
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
Bar chart funnel report
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Use filters to segment your audience
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Retention cohort report
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Ecommerce revenue tracking
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Called activity map
Session Recordings
Session Replay
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Also called Calculated metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
By means of adding CSS classes
Up to 1.000 success events
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Available in Workspace
Support
Support description
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
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.
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