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Summary
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.
Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you'll start getting data in minutes.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
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
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • It is free and easy to use
  • Great heatmaps
  • Unlimited session recordings
  • No data sampling
  • 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
  • Open-source
  • Simple to understand interface
  • You own your data
  • Provacy-friendly
  • Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Limited reporting features
  • Limited integrations
  • Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
  • Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
  • Not a great amount of features

Pricing information

Starting Price
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
ClarityFree
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
30 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
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)
  • 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
Mixpanel
Microsoft Clarity
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
13 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
Via raw data export API
via API or CSV
via API as JSON file
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Umami Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Entry and exit pages
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Extensive filtering by any metric
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Simple referral metrics
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
Revenue tracking

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Session Recordings
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
Session replays
A/B Testing
Experiments
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights

Support

Support description
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 is available via chat, email and the support center.
Email support, public Discord server
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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