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Rating
5/5
Summary
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
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.
A B2B tool that helps businesses identify and track website visitors in order to generate leads and improve their sales and marketing efforts.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
  • Privacy friendly
  • Easy to use
  • Customer support
  • Ad-blocker bypassing
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Quality company insights
  • Modern user interface
  • Responsive support
  • Easy to set up
  • 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
  • No data import
  • Short free trial
  • Limited features
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Limited features
  • Pricing based on company ID's, relevant or not
  • Slight learning curve
  • 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
100k page views$15 p/m
200k page views$25 p/m
500k page views$45 p/m
1 Million page views$60 p/m
2 Million page views$100 p/m
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn 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
30 days
Free plan
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
Unlimited
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)
  • United States
  • 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
You
You
Snitcher
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
12 months*
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
One-click CSV export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • COPPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Sets one first-party cookie, snitcher_device_id (1 year).
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly reporting
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
User segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Order Completed and Product Purchased events

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Guides and Surveys add-on

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
Can include: name, ID & value
Create a custom event from existing events
Annotations

Support

Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Support via a contact form (answered by email), live chat and the help center.
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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