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Summary
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
A B2B leadgeneration tool. Start identifying your B2B website visitors and grow your sales funnel. Generate more and better leads than your competition.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Pros
  • Ease of use
  • Great authorisation management
  • Packed with features
  • Community forum
  • Intergrated tag & consent management
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • Company insights
  • Session Recordings
  • Geographic results
  • CRM integration
  • Elaborate data import options
  • Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
  • Great support
Cons
  • No progressive payment plan
  • Ecommerce reporting can be improved
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Limited features
  • Specific use-case
  • Not very customizable
  • Quite steep pricing
  • Steep learning curve
  • Technical knowledge needed for implementation
  • Only a collection tool

Pricing information

Starting Price
Core - 500k€35 p/m
Enterprise€366 p/m
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
Starter€69+ p/m
Scale€159+ p/m
Pro€359+ p/m
5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
Test & Experiment TrackingFree
Self-Hosted PipelineOn req.
Snowplow PlatformOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
1
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
3 to unlimited, by 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)
  • United Kingdom
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
Mixpanel
Leadinfo
You
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
Unlimited
30 days
Unlimited
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Used for bulk tagging leads
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Via raw data export API
Elaborate lead export in CSV or for Linkedin
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Sets first-party cookies _li_id (2 years) and _li_ses (session) by default; an optional cookieless mode exists.

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Same as custom alerts
Daily, weekly or monthly lead overview

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Analyse your peak hours
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Filter leads by country, channel or page
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
CLTV Analysis
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Simple referral widget
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Option to track purchases but no special reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
Included from the Scale plan
A/B Testing
Experiments
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Define your own labels
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Combine events into a custom event
Define triggers to label a lead or send them to CRM
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Directly on the linechart in Insights

Support

Support description
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Email support on Starter, phone support from Scale, a dedicated customer success manager on Pro, plus a help center.
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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