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4/5
Summary
Privacy-focused website analytics without compromise. Fathom doesn’t compromise visitor privacy for data. It made website analytics easy to use and respectful of privacy laws.
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.
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.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
  • Privacy friendly
  • Easy to use
  • Customer support
  • Ad-blocker bypassing
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • It is free and easy to use
  • Great heatmaps
  • Unlimited session recordings
  • No data sampling
Cons
  • No data import
  • Short free trial
  • Limited features
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Limited reporting features
  • Limited integrations

Pricing information

Starting Price
100k page views$15 p/m
200k page views$25 p/m
500k page views$45 p/m
1 Million page views$60 p/m
2 Million page views$100 p/m
StarterFree
Growth$49+ p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
ClarityFree
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
50
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
  • 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
You
You
Microsoft Clarity
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
13 months
84 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
Google Analytics importer
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
One-click CSV export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • COPPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Fathom is cookieless by default.
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Clarity uses first-party cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

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

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser & OS widgets
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Segmentation
Instant filters on any data point
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referral metrics
Ecommerce Reporting
By means of custom events
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Click, scroll & area heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Filter by actions, duration, pages & device
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
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
Can include: name, ID & value
Create a custom event from existing events
Annotations

Support

Support description
Fathom offers extensive support and video walk-throughs. For issues you can always contact their knowledgable email support.
The support of Amplitude consists of a ticketing system, an extensive knowledge base, a community and email support depending on your plan.
Support is available via chat, email and the support center.
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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