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Rating
4/5
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.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
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
  • Easy to set up
  • Great interface design
  • Reasonable pricing
  • Good session recordings
Cons
  • Limited reporting features
  • Limited integrations
  • Limited features
  • Cluttered interface
  • Crashes sometimes
  • Feature flags are limited
  • Limited amount of graph types
  • Filtering could be improved

Pricing information

Starting Price
ClarityFree
EssentialsOn req.
AutomateOn req.
Cloud LiteFree
Cloud€0.005 per event / recording
Enterprise Cloud€450 p/m minimum
Free trial period
Free plan
7 days
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
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
  • 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
Microsoft Clarity
Lead Forensics
You
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
13 months
3 months
Unlimited
84 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
by means of an API
Historical data ingestion
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
by means of an API
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Clarity uses first-party cookies
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral metrics
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Session Recordings
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
also called triggers
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.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
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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