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Summary
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.
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.
Hotjar provides Product Experience Insights about your website that show how users behave and what they feel strongly about, so product teams can deliver real value to them.
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.
Pros
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • Lightweight
  • Open-source
  • Cookieless
  • EU cloud infrastructure
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • It is free and easy to use
  • Great heatmaps
  • Unlimited session recordings
  • No data sampling
Cons
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Limited features
  • No audience reporting features
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Limited reporting features
  • Limited integrations

Pricing information

Starting Price
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
10k page views$9 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
200k page views$29 p/m
100k page views$19 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
BasicFree
Plus$49+ p/m
BusinessOn req.
ScaleOn req.
ClarityFree
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited for all plans
1-10+ depending on plan
1
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 States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Hotjar
Microsoft Clarity
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
3-5+ years depending on plan
12 months
13 months
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
e.g. import GA data
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Export your data to CSV
Export recording meta data
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Clarity uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
e.g. daily survey responses reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See on which device the user was
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Segmentation
Use filters to segment your audience
Create custom filters for recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral metrics
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Record all interaction with your site
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
By means of adding CSS classes
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations

Support

Support description
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
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.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
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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