Compare
Compare Analytics Tools
Heap
Free plan
Only Heap has:
- Cohort Reports
- Retention Reporting
- Custom Properties
- Custom Metrics
Hotjar
Free plan
Only Hotjar has:
- Heatmaps
Snitcher
From $49 per month
No feature only Snitcher has.
Umami
Only Umami has:
- Data Sampling
- Cookieless
- Custom Reports
Summary
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
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.
Pros
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- 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)
Cons
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- 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
Pricing information
Starting Price
- FreeFree
- GrowthOn req.
- ProOn req.
- PremierOn req.
- 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.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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)
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
Hotjar
Snitcher
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
12 months
12 months
12 months*
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Data Export
Via CSV or API
Export recording meta data
via API as JSON file
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
Cookieless
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Sets one first-party cookie, snitcher_device_id (1 year).
Umami Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Via Slack or email
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Schedule regular emails for important charts
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Funnel Reporting
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with path comparison
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Create custom filters for recordings
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
Revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
Record all interaction with your site
Session replays
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Support
Support description
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
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 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



