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Summary
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.
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • Comes with headline testing tool
  • Dashboards are easy to read
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good referral report
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Company insights
  • Simple implementation
  • The world's largest B2B IP address database
  • Ability to tag users
  • 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
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Mainly designed for publishers
  • Their pricing is untransparent
  • Traffic sources could be improved
  • Limited features
  • Cluttered interface
  • Crashes sometimes
  • 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
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
BasicOn req.
PlusOn req.
PremiumOn req.
EssentialsOn req.
AutomateOn req.
FullstoryFreeFree
BusinessOn req.
AdvancedOn req.
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
14 days
7 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited for all plans
Unlimited
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
  • United Kingdom
  • 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
Chartbeat
Lead Forensics
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
13 months
3 months
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
by means of an API
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
by means of an API
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
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
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
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
User segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
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
Headline A/B testing tool
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
Create a custom event from existing events
also called triggers
Annotations

Support

Support description
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or support.
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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