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5/5
5/5
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.
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.
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • Lightweight
  • Open-source
  • Cookieless
  • EU cloud infrastructure
  • Comes with headline testing tool
  • Dashboards are easy to read
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good referral report
  • Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
  • Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
  • Extensive API
  • Fully-fledged access management
  • Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Limited features
  • No audience reporting features
  • Mainly designed for publishers
  • Their pricing is untransparent
  • Traffic sources could be improved
  • Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
  • Heatmaps and session recordings are not available

Pricing information

Starting Price
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
10k page views$9 p/m
EnterpriseOn 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
BasicOn req.
PlusOn req.
PremiumOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
14 days
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
1
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited for all plans
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
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)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
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
Chartbeat
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
3-5+ years depending on plan
13 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
e.g. import GA data
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Export your data to CSV
via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
Cookieless
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Use filters to segment your audience
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
Possible with custom events and goals

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
Headline A/B testing tool
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
By means of adding CSS classes
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations

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.
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.
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
Email support, public Discord server
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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