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Rating
4/5
4/5
Summary
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.
The only digital insights platform that gives you complete understanding of your customers’ digital journeys, so you can quickly improve conversion, retention, and customer delight.
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.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pros
- Interface is easy to understand
- Great support options
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good community
- It is easy to implement
- It has data science capabilities
- Reports are easy to build
- Interface is user-friendly
- It is free and easy to use
- Great heatmaps
- Unlimited session recordings
- No data sampling
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
Cons
- Event setup requires tech skills
- Contains hard to discover features
- Has a steep learning curve
- Tech support is quite basic
- Difficult to share dasboards
- Onboarding could be improved
- Limited reporting features
- Limited integrations
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Free | Free |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Free | Free |
| Growth | On req. |
| Pro | On req. |
| Premier | On req. |
| Clarity | Free |
| 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
1
1
Unlimited
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
- 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
Mixpanel
You
Microsoft Clarity
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
12 months
13 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
Via raw data export API
Via CSV or API
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Heap relies on first-party cookies
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Via Slack or email
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
Schedule regular emails for important charts
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
With quantitative measurement of user friction & step suggestions
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Sankey chart with path comparison
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Quickly identify patterns in user behavior
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Track UTM parameters or initial referrer sources
Simple referral metrics
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Easy setup with eCommerce Activation Kit
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Session Recordings
Automatically filters relevant replays
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
A/B Testing
Experiments
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Track NPS score events in surveys
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Support
Support description
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.
Heap offers extensive documentation and access to their in-depth collection of Heap University courses to get up and running. Need more help? Join the community or contact their knowledgable support staff through email.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
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