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Fathom Analytics
From $15 p/m
No feature only Fathom Analytics has.
Amplitude
Free plan
Only Amplitude has:
- Retention Reporting
- Attribution Reporting
- Heatmaps
- Session Recordings
- A/B Testing
- User Feedback
- Custom Reports
Simple Analytics
From €15 p/m
No feature only Simple Analytics has.
Plausible Analytics
From $9 p/m
Only Plausible Analytics has:
- Custom Alerts
Fathom Analytics
Amplitude
Simple Analytics
Plausible AnalyticsSummary
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.
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.
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
Pros
- Privacy friendly
- Easy to use
- Customer support
- Ad-blocker bypassing
- Simple & Intuïtive
- User segmentation
- Data visualisations
- Feature Analytics
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
Cons
- No data import
- Short free trial
- Limited features
- Dashboard customisation
- Limited free plan
- User support access
- Pricing transparency
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
Pricing information
Starting Price
- 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.
- Starter€15 p/m
- Business€40 p/m
- EnterpriseOn req.
- 10k page views$9 p/m
- 100k page views$19 p/m
- 200k page views$29 p/m
- 500k page views$49 p/m
- 1M page views$69 p/m
- 2M page views$89 p/m
- 5M page views$129 p/m
- 10M page views$169 p/m
- EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
14 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
5-10+ depending on plan
1-10+ depending on plan
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
1-10+ depending on plan
1-10+ depending on plan
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
You
You
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
3-5+ years depending on plan
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
GA importer included
e.g. import GA data
Data Export
One-click CSV export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
As CSV or via API
Export your data to CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- COPPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser & OS
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
Use filters to segment your audience
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Create a custom event from existing events
By means of adding CSS classes
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Support
Support description
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.
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
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
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