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4.5/5
5/5
Summary
A customisable and free web analytics tool. Get insights into user behavior with an event-based tracking model, and know what drives sales and traffic with extensive attribution methods.
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.
Product Analytics For Product, Marketing, Sales & Support teams. Full-funnel attribution, onboarding optimization, feature usage trends, subscription growth, cohort analysis and more.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
  • GA4 is free to use
  • Many functionalities
  • The reports are customisable
  • Large community
  • Extensive documentation
  • GA4 is easily scalable
  • Data display
  • Flexible data visualisation
  • Engagement reporting
  • Privacy oriented
  • User / account segmentation
  • Realtime
  • Integrations
  • Feature revenue reporting
  • Simple implementation
Cons
  • Steep learning curve
  • Implementation can be hard
  • Inaccurate data sampling
  • UI is not easy to use
  • Integrations
  • Branding method
  • Customisability
  • Limited free version

Pricing information

Starting Price
StandardFree
GA4 360$50k+ per year
On-PremiseFree
Cloud€19+ p/m
Pro$999+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
21 days
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
100
30
1
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
50+
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 Kingdom
  • 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
Google Analytics 4
You
Woopra
Pendo
Data Freshness
4-8 hours (most reports), up to 24-48 hours
15 minutes or more
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Customizable up to 14 months
Unlimited and customizable
24 months
84 months
Data Sampling
Explorations might use sampled data
Matomo doesn’t use data sampling
Woopra never uses any kind of sampling
Data Import
Import cost, offline or user/client ID data
Import Google Analytics data, search keywords & server logs
Import raw visit data with actions and visitor properties via API
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
With sheets, BigQuery or API
to CSV, XML, Json or Looker Studio or via HTTP API
Export raw daily visit data via API
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Google Analytics relies on first-party cookies.
Matomo offers cookieless tracking.
Woopra relies on first-party cookies.
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Custom insights, in interface or via email
Receive alerts from every report by email or SMS
Automatically trigger emails, slack messages or update Salesforce fields
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Recurring shared reporting
Detailed daily, weekly and monthly reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Measure by feature, subscription changes by location, campaign performance by source & more
Device Reporting
Device type, browser, OS and more
Funnel Reporting
Customisable funnel exploration
Basic funnel reporting
User Flow Reporting
Flexible Sankey chart exploration
With flexible Sankey chart
Combine any set of actions or attributes in Sankey charts
Segmentation
Segment creation and overlap exploration
Based on visit, interaction, campaign, ecommerce, demographics & device
Create dynamic segments based on any combination of criteria
Cohort Reports
Cohort exploration
Analyse and segment by cohort
Breakdown acquisition date, signup date, first purchase date & more
Retention Reporting
Combined with CLTV metrics
Uncover at-risk users and discover engaged users
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Attribution models comparison
Model comparison report
Ecommerce Reporting
Extensive e-commerce reports

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
GA4 does not offer heatmaps
Filter specific pages or hide elements on the page
Session Recordings
GA4 does not offer recordings
Record specific pages or only after activity or duration
A/B Testing
A/B Testing Platform (premium feature)
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
25 user-scoped & 50 event-scoped dimensions
5-15 for each scope and can't delete them
Custom Metrics
50 event-scoped metrics
Available from the pro plan
Custom Reports
All reports are customisable
Flexible report design
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
25 parameters per event
Via HTTP API or Javascript API
Annotations
Notes feature added in 2024
On any graph or via API

Support

Support description
Support is available via chat and the support center.
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.
Woopra offers support by phone, email, and an extensive knowledge base.
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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