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Matomo Analytics

Free plan

Has, and not every other tool does:

  • Data Sampling
  • Cookieless
  • Custom Alerts
  • Funnel Reporting
  • User Flow Reporting
  • Cohort Reports
  • Retention Reporting
  • Attribution Reporting
  • Ecommerce Reporting
  • Heatmaps
  • Session Recordings
  • A/B Testing
  • Custom Properties
  • Custom Metrics
  • Custom Reports
  • Annotations

Fathom Analytics

From $15 p/m

Has, and not every other tool does:

  • Cookieless
  • Ecommerce Reporting

Amplitude

Free plan

Has, and not every other tool does:

  • Funnel Reporting
  • User Flow Reporting
  • Retention Reporting
  • Attribution Reporting
  • Ecommerce Reporting
  • Heatmaps
  • Session Recordings
  • A/B Testing
  • User Feedback
  • Custom Properties
  • Custom Metrics
  • Custom Reports
  • Annotations

Mixpanel

Free plan

Has, and not every other tool does:

  • Custom Alerts
  • Funnel Reporting
  • User Flow Reporting
  • Cohort Reports
  • Retention Reporting
  • Attribution Reporting
  • Heatmaps
  • A/B Testing
  • Custom Properties
  • Custom Metrics
  • Custom Reports
  • Annotations
Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
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.
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.
Pros
  • Data display
  • Flexible data visualisation
  • Engagement reporting
  • Privacy oriented
  • Privacy friendly
  • Easy to use
  • Customer support
  • Ad-blocker bypassing
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
Cons
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • No data import
  • Short free trial
  • Limited features
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve

Pricing information

Starting Price
  • On-PremiseFree
  • Cloud€19+ p/m
  • 100k page views$15 p/m
  • 200k page views$25 p/m
  • 500k page views$45 p/m
  • 1 Million page views$60 p/m
  • 2 Million page views$100 p/m
  • StarterFree
  • Growth$49+ p/m
  • EnterpriseOn req.
  • FreeFree
  • EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
21 days
30 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
30
50
Unlimited
1
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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)
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
You
You
You
Mixpanel
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Google Analytics importer
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
One-click CSV export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Via raw data export API
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • COPPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Same as custom alerts

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Instant filters on any data point
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Session Replay
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
Experiments
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Create a custom event from existing events
Combine events into a custom event
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Directly on the linechart in Insights

Support

Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
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.
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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