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Google Analytics 4
Free plan
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Data Import
- Custom Alerts
- User Flow Reporting
- Cohort Reports
- Retention Reporting
- Attribution Reporting
- Ecommerce Reporting
- Custom Properties
- Custom Metrics
- Custom Reports
- Annotations
Clicky
Free plan
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Cookieless
- Custom Alerts
- User Flow Reporting
- Ecommerce Reporting
- Heatmaps
- Custom Metrics
Mixpanel
Free plan
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Data Import
- Custom Alerts
- User Flow Reporting
- Cohort Reports
- Retention Reporting
- Attribution Reporting
- Heatmaps
- A/B Testing
- Custom Properties
- Custom Metrics
- Custom Reports
- Annotations
Lucky Orange
Has, and not every other tool does:
- Attribution Reporting
- Heatmaps
- Session Recordings
- A/B Testing
- User Feedback
- Custom Reports
Summary
A customisable and free web analytics tool. Get insights into user behavior with an event-based tracking model, and know what drives sales and traffic with extensive attribution methods.
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.
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 website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Pros
- GA4 is free to use
- Many functionalities
- The reports are customisable
- Large community
- Extensive documentation
- GA4 is easily scalable
- No bots or referrer spam
- Privacy-friendly
- Simple but detailed
- Uptime monitoring
- Interface is easy to understand
- Great support options
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good community
- Easy to use
- Great tagging feature
- Attentive support team
Cons
- Steep learning curve
- Implementation can be hard
- Inaccurate data sampling
- UI is not easy to use
- Limited features
- Limited integrations
- Lower quality visuals
- Event setup requires tech skills
- Contains hard to discover features
- Has a steep learning curve
- New version can be glitchy
- Slight learning curve for beginners
Pricing information
Starting Price
- StandardFree
- GA4 360$50k+ per year
- FreeFree
- Pro$9.99 p/m
- Pro plus$14.99 p/m
- Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
- CustomOn req.
- FreeFree
- EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
21 days
Free plan
7 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
100
1
1
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
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 Kingdom
- United States
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
Google Analytics 4
Clicky
Mixpanel
Lucky Orange
Data Freshness
4-8 hours (most reports), up to 24-48 hours
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Customizable up to 14 months
30 months
Unlimited
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Data Sampling
Explorations might use sampled data
Data Import
Import cost, offline or user/client ID data
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Data Export
With sheets, BigQuery or API
Via raw data export API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies.
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Custom insights, in interface or via email
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Email Reports
Recurring shared reporting
Same as custom alerts
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS and more
Funnel Reporting
Customisable funnel exploration
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
User Flow Reporting
Flexible Sankey chart exploration
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Segmentation
Segment creation and overlap exploration
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Cohort Reports
Cohort exploration
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Combined with CLTV metrics
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Attribution models comparison
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
Extensive e-commerce reports
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
GA4 does not offer heatmaps
Session Recordings
GA4 does not offer recordings
A/B Testing
Experiments
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
25 user-scoped & 50 event-scoped dimensions
Custom Metrics
50 event-scoped metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
All reports are customisable
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
25 parameters per event
Combine events into a custom event
Annotations
Notes feature added in 2024
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Support
Support description
Support is available via chat and the support center.
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.
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
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