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Rating
4/5
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.
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • Comes with headline testing tool
  • Dashboards are easy to read
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good referral report
  • Intuitive dashboards
  • Great filtering
  • Possibility to tag elements
  • Helpfull support
  • Automatic form tracking
  • User feedback surveys
Cons
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Mainly designed for publishers
  • Their pricing is untransparent
  • Traffic sources could be improved
  • Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
  • Funnels could be improved
  • You run into credit limit quite fast

Pricing information

Starting Price
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
BasicOn req.
PlusOn req.
PremiumOn 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
14 days
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
1
10
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
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
Chartbeat
Mouseflow
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Unlimited
13 months
12 months
84 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
through integrations
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
Via raw data export API
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Via web hook
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
Experiments
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Automatic form tracking
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
Custom tagging of recordings
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.
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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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