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Rating
5/5
Summary
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
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.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
- Ease of use
- Great authorisation management
- Packed with features
- Community forum
- Intergrated tag & consent management
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- AI-powered attribution
- Combined web + product analytics
- Auto-capture without developers
- Privacy-friendly
Cons
- No progressive payment plan
- Ecommerce reporting can be improved
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- Relatively new player
- No self-hosting option
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Core - 500k | €35 p/m |
| Enterprise | €366 p/m |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
3+ depending on plan
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 States
- United States
- 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
Pendo
You
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
Hourly updates
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
Unlimited
84 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Historical data ingestion
Import historical data by CSV
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- LGPD
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Cookieless tracking available
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
See Cohort analysis
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Revenue attribution
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Support
Support description
Piwik Pro offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. They have support offices for different regions which can be contacted by email and phone.
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.
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
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