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Amplitude

Free plan

Only Amplitude has:

  • Ecommerce Reporting

Mixpanel

Free plan

No feature only Mixpanel has.

Hotjar

Free plan

No feature only Hotjar has.

Pendo

No feature only Pendo has.

Summary
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.
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.
Hotjar provides Product Experience Insights about your website that show how users behave and what they feel strongly about, so product teams can deliver real value to them.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
  • Simple & Intuïtive
  • User segmentation
  • Data visualisations
  • Feature Analytics
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • Comes with great heatmaps
  • Includes session recordings
  • Good polling function
  • Hotjar features exit surveys
Cons
  • Dashboard customisation
  • Limited free plan
  • User support access
  • Pricing transparency
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Hotjar is not available for mobile
  • Steep pricing for large organisations
  • Hard to exclude URLs from reports

Pricing information

Starting Price
  • StarterFree
  • Growth$49+ p/m
  • EnterpriseOn req.
  • FreeFree
  • EnterpriseOn req.
  • BasicFree
  • Plus$49+ p/m
  • BusinessOn req.
  • ScaleOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
Unlimited for all plans
Unlimited
1
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
Mixpanel
Hotjar
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
30 minutes
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
12 months
84 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Via raw data export API
Export recording meta data
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Amplitude relies on first-party cookies.
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Same as custom alerts
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See on which device the user was
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
Discover why users drop off
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Create custom filters for recordings
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention Analysis and Lifecycle charts
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Elaborate Ecommerce reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Unlimited
Session Recordings
Session Replay
Record all interaction with your site
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
Experiments
No A/B testing tool only integrations
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
20 custom formulas to create the metric you need
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Create a custom event from existing events
Combine events into a custom event
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Hotjar does not have 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.
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.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
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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