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Hotjar

Free plan

No feature only Hotjar has.

Snitcher

From $49 per month

No feature only Snitcher has.

Umami

Only Umami has:

  • Data Sampling
  • Cookieless

Fullstory

Free plan

Only Fullstory has:

  • Retention Reporting
  • A/B Testing
  • Custom Properties
  • Custom Metrics
Summary
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.
A B2B tool that helps businesses identify and track website visitors in order to generate leads and improve their sales and marketing efforts.
An open-source marketing analytics tool that respects data-privacy. With two hosting options, it is completely cookieless and it lets you own all your data.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Quality company insights
  • Modern user interface
  • Responsive support
  • Easy to set up
  • Open-source
  • Simple to understand interface
  • You own your data
  • Provacy-friendly
  • Lightweight script (2kb)
  • Permanent free plan with session replay
  • Choice of EU or US data center
  • SOC 2 and ISO 27001, 27701 and 42001 certifications
  • Warehouse sync to BigQuery, Snowflake and Redshift
Cons
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports
  • Limited features
  • Pricing based on company ID's, relevant or not
  • Slight learning curve
  • Not a great amount of features
  • Paid prices not published
  • Dashboards and StoryAI not in the free plan
  • Alerts and retention reports need an Advanced or Enterprise plan
  • Moving to the EU data center means opening a new account

Pricing information

Starting Price
  • BasicFree
  • Plus$49+ p/m
  • BusinessOn req.
  • ScaleOn req.
  • 0-50 company ID's$49 p/m
  • 51-100 company ID's$69 p/m
  • 101-250 company ID's$99 p/m
  • 251-500 company ID's$139 p/m
  • 501-750 company ID's$179 p/m
  • 751-1.000 company ID's$229 p/m
  • 1.001-2.000 company ID's$279 p/m
  • 2.001-3.000 company ID's$349 p/m
  • 3.001-4.000 company ID's$439 p/m
  • 4.001-5.000 company ID's$529 p/m
  • 5.000+ company ID'sOn req.
  • FullstoryFreeFree
  • BusinessOn req.
  • AdvancedOn req.
  • EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
1
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
10 on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
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)
  • 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
Hotjar
Snitcher
You
You
Data Freshness
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
12 months*
Unlimited
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
Export recording meta data
via API as JSON file
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Sets one first-party cookie, snitcher_device_id (1 year).
Umami Analytics does not use cookies
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
for Business & Enterprise plans
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
e.g. daily survey responses reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
User journey analysis
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Create custom filters for recordings
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
User segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue tracking
Order Completed and Product Purchased events

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Session replays
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Guides and Surveys add-on

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations

Support

Support description
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
Support via a contact form (answered by email), live chat and the help center.
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them via e-mail.
Support is by email and support ticket during regional weekday business hours, with a help center and community forum. Free plan tickets have a 2 business day response target, paying customers 1 business day. A Premium Support add-on gives 24/7 critical support. The FullstoryFree help article lists email support as a paid plan feature, while the support hours article lists a response target for free plan customers.
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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