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Summary
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.
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
- Comes with headline testing tool
- Dashboards are easy to read
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good referral report
- 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
- Mainly designed for publishers
- Their pricing is untransparent
- Traffic sources could 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
| Basic | On req. |
| Plus | On req. |
| Premium | On req. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
1
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
Chartbeat
You
Pendo
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Realtime
Data Retention
13 months
Unlimited
84 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Historical data ingestion
Import historical data by CSV
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Cookieless tracking available
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue attribution
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Support
Support description
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.
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


