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Rating
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.
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.
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
  • Privacy focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
  • 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 due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version
  • 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.
Starter€15 p/m
Business€40 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
30 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited for all plans
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

Data Processing

Data Center Locations
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
Software Hosting
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
  • Public Cloud
  • Private Cloud
  • On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
GA importer included
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
As CSV or via API
via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
Cookieless
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Line up goals for simple funnel
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
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
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
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
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Able to include links in 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.
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
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
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