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Rating
5/5
4/5
Summary
A free analytics suite with a focus on user privacy and data security. Optimize the customer journey where it was previously impossible.
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
Optimize your website with certainty, not assumption. Watch real user journeys, with automatic Friction Scores that detects where to focus first.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pros
- Ease of use
- Great authorisation management
- Packed with features
- Community forum
- Intergrated tag & consent management
- Interface is easy to understand
- Great support options
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good community
- Intuitive dashboards
- Great filtering
- Possibility to tag elements
- Helpfull support
- Automatic form tracking
- User feedback surveys
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
Cons
- No progressive payment plan
- Ecommerce reporting can be improved
- Event setup requires tech skills
- Contains hard to discover features
- Has a steep learning curve
- Lack of insight for Iframe recordings
- Funnels could be improved
- You run into credit limit quite fast
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Core - 500k | €35 p/m |
| Enterprise | €366 p/m |
| Free | Free |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| Starter | €39 p/m |
| Growth | €129 p/m |
| Business | €259 p/m |
| Pro | €499 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
10 sites or apps (free) Unlimited (Enterprise)
1
10
Unlimited
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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
Mixpanel
Mouseflow
You
Data Freshness
30 min
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Up to 25 months
Unlimited
12 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
By default Piwik does not sample data
Data Import
Import cost data, search keywords, user/client ID and audience data
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
through integrations
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
As CSV, XML, JSON, or via an API
Via raw data export API
via CSV or to third-party tools by ID push
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- LGPD
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
Cookieless
Piwik features a cookieless tracking option
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Mouseflow uses first-party cookies
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Email alerts based on thresholds
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Via web hook
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Daily, weekly or monthly reports
Same as custom alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly emails
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Simple visitor trend graphs
Device Reporting
Filter by device type, OS, browser & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Detailed funnel report up to 5 steps
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
Simple funnel report, watch recordings from converters
User Flow Reporting
Standard, transition & reverse Sankey charts
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Segmentation
Unlimited segments
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Segment users to filter heatmaps & recordings
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Customer loyalty eCommerce report
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Multi-channel attribution with 98% accuracy
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Overview, order list, product, days and sessions to purchase & customer loyalty
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Create an overlay with the site inspector Chrome extension
Click, movement, scroll, attention, live & geo heatmaps
Session Recordings
Elaborate filtering & livestream options
A/B Testing
Experiments
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Custom triggered text, multiple choice & NPS ratings
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
200 slots for each scope and they can't be removed
Custom Metrics
Also called Calculated metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Automatic form tracking
Custom Events
Include category, action, and optionally name and value
Combine events into a custom event
Custom tagging of recordings
Annotations
Add to any graph or include them in scheduled reports or alerts
Directly on the linechart in Insights
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.
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Mouseflow provides support in four languages and through phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base
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.
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