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Amplitude

Free plan

Only Amplitude has:

  • Ecommerce Reporting
  • Session Recordings

Mixpanel

Free plan

No feature only Mixpanel has.

Lead Forensics

On request

Only Lead Forensics has:

  • Cookieless

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.
B2B website visitor identification in real-time. Uncover your anonymous B2B website visitors and fuel your business growth.
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
  • Great for B2B leadgen
  • Company insights
  • Simple implementation
  • The world's largest B2B IP address database
  • Ability to tag users
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
  • Limited features
  • Cluttered interface
  • Crashes sometimes

Pricing information

Starting Price
  • StarterFree
  • Growth$49+ p/m
  • EnterpriseOn req.
  • FreeFree
  • EnterpriseOn req.
  • EssentialsOn req.
  • AutomateOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
7 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
1
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
Unlimited for all plans
Unlimited
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
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Lead Forensics
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
3 months
84 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via SDK, API, GCS, AWS & more
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
by means of an API
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
To GCS, BigQuery, Redshift & more
Via raw data export API
by means of an API
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
The basic tracking code sets no cookie; an optional first-party cookie (lfuuid) can be enabled.
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Subscribe to dashboard for daily reports
Same as custom alerts
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Flexible funnels to analyse conversion, time to convert & more
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
User Flow Reporting
Standard & reverse Sankey charts
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
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
Session Recordings
Session Replay
A/B Testing
A/B testing & feature flagging with Amplitude Experiment
Experiments
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys

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
also called triggers
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights

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.
Lead Forensics support options consist of country-specific phone numbers nu and a form on the website to contact sales or support.
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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