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Compare Analytics Tools
Amplitude
Free plan
Only Amplitude has:
- Annotations
Heap
Free plan
Only Heap has:
- Cohort Reports
Contentsquare (Hotjar)
Free plan
No feature only Contentsquare (Hotjar) has.
Mouseflow
Free plan
Only Mouseflow has:
- Cookieless
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.
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
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.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
Pros
- Simple & Intuïtive
- User segmentation
- Data visualisations
- Feature Analytics
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Intuitive dashboards
- Great filtering
- Possibility to tag elements
- Helpfull support
- Automatic form tracking
- User feedback surveys
Cons
- Dashboard customisation
- Limited free plan
- User support access
- Pricing transparency
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
- Funnels could be improved
- You run into credit limit quite fast
Pricing information
Starting Price
- StarterFree
- Growth$49+ p/m
- EnterpriseOn req.
- FreeFree
- GrowthOn req.
- ProOn req.
- PremierOn req.
- BasicFree
- Plus$49+ p/m
- BusinessOn req.
- ScaleOn req.
- FreeFree
- Starter€39 p/m
- Growth€129 p/m
- Business€259 p/m
- Pro€499 p/m
- EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
10
User Seats
Unlimited for all plans
Unlimited
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)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
Contentsquare (Hotjar)
Mouseflow
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
12 months
12 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
through integrations
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Via CSV or API
Export recording meta data
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via web hook
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Discover why users drop off
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Sankey chart with path comparison
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Create custom filters for recordings
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Automatically filters relevant replays
Record all interaction with your site
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Track NPS score events in surveys
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Automatic form tracking
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Custom tagging of recordings
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.
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
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