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Compare Analytics Tools
Matomo Analytics
Free plan
Only Matomo Analytics has:
- Data Sampling
- Cookieless
- Custom Alerts
Amplitude
Free plan
Only Amplitude has:
- User Feedback
Microsoft Clarity
Free plan
No feature only Microsoft Clarity has.
Snowplow Analytics
Free plan
No feature only Snowplow Analytics has.
Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
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.
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.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Pros
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- Simple & Intuïtive
- User segmentation
- Data visualisations
- Feature Analytics
- It is free and easy to use
- Great heatmaps
- Unlimited session recordings
- No data sampling
- Elaborate data import options
- Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
- Great support
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- Dashboard customisation
- Limited free plan
- User support access
- Pricing transparency
- Limited reporting features
- Limited integrations
- Steep learning curve
- Technical knowledge needed for implementation
- Only a collection tool
Pricing information
Starting Price
- On-PremiseFree
- Cloud€19+ p/m
- StarterFree
- Growth$49+ p/m
- EnterpriseOn req.
- ClarityFree
- Test & Experiment TrackingFree
- Self-Hosted PipelineOn req.
- Snowplow PlatformOn req.
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- United Kingdom
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
Microsoft Clarity
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Unlimited
13 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
CLTV Analysis
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
Simple referral metrics
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Session Replay
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Support
Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
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