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Rating
5/5
5/5
Summary
A free privacy focussed open-source web analytics tool, which gives you 100% data-ownership. You can even use Matomo without needing to ask for consent.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Ultimate open-source analytics to satisfy all your needs. Track every metric you need without invading your users' privacy.
An open-source marketing analytics tool that respects data-privacy. With two hosting options, it is completely cookieless and it lets you own all your data.
Pros
- Data display
- Flexible data visualisation
- Engagement reporting
- Privacy oriented
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- Privacy-focused
- Performance monitoring
- Open-source
- Browser extensions for quick access to analytics
- Messenger integrations
- Open-source
- Simple to understand interface
- You own your data
- Provacy-friendly
- Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
- Integrations
- Branding method
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- Limited integration capabilities
- Not a great amount of features
Pricing information
Starting Price
| On-Premise | Free |
| Cloud | €19+ p/m |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
| Hobby | $5 / mo |
| Freelancer | $15 / mo |
| Startup | $59 / mo |
| Enterprise | $110 / mo |
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
14 days
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
30
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
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
You
You
Data Freshness
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited and customizable
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Swetrix does not sample data
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
via API as JSON file
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- CPPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
Cookieless
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking
Umami Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Device Reporting
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Funnel Reporting
Basic funnel reporting
User Flow Reporting
With flexible Sankey chart
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Analyse and segment by cohort
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Model comparison report
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue tracking
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Session Recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
Session replays
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Flexible report design
Receive custom reports by email. You can also add unlimited amount of email addresses to be subscribed to the traffic report newsletter.
Custom Events
You can track custom events. Custom events also support lots of customisations (e.g. you may track if you want 1 custom event per 1 unique session, etc).
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations
On any graph or via API
Soon to be released
Support
Support description
Matomo offers extensive documentation and video tutorials. Because Matomo is an open source product, you can also get help from a large community. Do you need personal help? Contact Matomo's support team for general issues or contact Innocraft for Matomo Cloud-hosted services.
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.
Swetrix offers online support in the chatbox on the website, via social-media (i.e. Twitter, Linkedin, Discord) and via Email.
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them 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