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Summary
Privacy-friendly Website Analytics. Monitor, analyze, and react to your traffic in real time, on a simple but detailed dashboard. Handy features like uptime monitoring included.
Give your teams a self-service digital analytics platform to understand your users, drive conversions, and increase engagement, growth and revenue. Ideal for product or gowth teams.
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.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
  • No bots or referrer spam
  • Privacy-friendly
  • Simple but detailed
  • Uptime monitoring
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • Comes with headline testing tool
  • Dashboards are easy to read
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good referral report
Cons
  • Limited features
  • Limited integrations
  • Lower quality visuals
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Mainly designed for publishers
  • Their pricing is untransparent
  • Traffic sources could be improved

Pricing information

Starting Price
Pro$9.99 p/m
FreeFree
CustomOn req.
Pro plus$14.99 p/m
Pro Platinum$19.99 p/m
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
BasicOn req.
PlusOn req.
PremiumOn req.
Free trial period
21 days
Free plan
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
1
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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
  • 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
Clicky
You
Chartbeat
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
30 months
Unlimited
13 months
84 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
No tracking cookies, GDPR-compliant by default
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
Headline A/B testing tool
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Annotations

Support

Support description
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
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.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
Support Options
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community

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