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Piwik PRO

From €35 per month

Has, and not every other tool does:

  • Data Sampling
  • Data Import
  • Cookieless
  • Custom Alerts
  • Email Reports
  • User Flow Reporting
  • Retention Reporting
  • Attribution Reporting
  • Ecommerce Reporting
  • Heatmaps
  • Custom Properties
  • Custom Metrics
  • Custom Reports
  • Annotations

Simple Analytics

From €15 p/m

Has, and not every other tool does:

  • Data Import
  • Cookieless
  • Email Reports
  • Annotations

Pendo

Has, and not every other tool does:

  • Data Import
  • Custom Alerts
  • Email Reports
  • Cohort Reports
  • Retention Reporting
  • Heatmaps
  • A/B Testing
  • User Feedback
  • Custom Reports

Umami

Has, and not every other tool does:

  • Data Sampling
  • Cookieless
  • Custom Alerts
  • User Flow Reporting
  • Attribution Reporting
  • Ecommerce Reporting
  • Session Recordings
  • Custom Reports
Summary
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
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.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
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.
Pros
  • Ease of use
  • Great authorisation management
  • Packed with features
  • Community forum
  • Intergrated tag & consent management
  • Privacy focused
  • Cookieless
  • Lightweight script
  • Good support
  • Easy to use
  • Open-source
  • Simple to understand interface
  • You own your data
  • Provacy-friendly
  • Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
  • No progressive payment plan
  • Ecommerce reporting can be improved
  • Limited features due to cookieless
  • Not very customisable
  • No free version
  • Not a great amount of features

Pricing information

Starting Price
  • Core - 500k€35 p/m
  • Enterprise€366 p/m
  • Starter€15 p/m
  • Business€40 p/m
  • EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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)
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
Pendo
You
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
Hourly updates
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
Unlimited
84 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
GA importer included
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
As CSV or via API
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
via API as JSON file
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • LGPD
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Umami Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Revenue tracking

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
Session replays
A/B Testing
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Able to include links in annotations

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.
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them via e-mail.
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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