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Rating
4/5
5/5
Summary
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.
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- It is free and easy to use
- Great heatmaps
- Unlimited session recordings
- No data sampling
- Great for B2B leadgen
- Company insights
- Simple implementation
- The world's largest B2B IP address database
- Ability to tag users
- Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
- Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
- Extensive API
- Fully-fledged access management
- Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
- Limited reporting features
- Limited integrations
- Limited features
- Cluttered interface
- Crashes sometimes
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Clarity | Free |
| Essentials | On req. |
| Automate | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
7 days
Free plan
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
Unlimited
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
- United Kingdom
- 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
Microsoft Clarity
Lead Forensics
Pendo
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Realtime
Data Retention
13 months
3 months
84 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
by means of an API
Import historical data by CSV
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
by means of an API
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Clarity uses first-party cookies
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral metrics
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Session Recordings
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
A/B Testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
also called triggers
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Annotations
Support
Support description
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or support.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
Email support, public Discord server
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