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Rating
4/5
5/5
Summary
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.
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
A simple but powerful real-time web analytics tool that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors. It features click fraud detection and session playback.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • Lightweight
  • Open-source
  • Cookieless
  • EU cloud infrastructure
  • Easy to use
  • Google Ads integration
  • Great session playback
  • Click fraud detection
  • Visitor alerts
Cons
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Limited features
  • No audience reporting features
  • Limited free plan

Pricing information

Starting Price
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
10k page views$9 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
200k page views$29 p/m
100k page views$19 p/m
500k page views$49 p/m
1M page views$69 p/m
2M page views$89 p/m
5M page views$129 p/m
10M page views$169 p/m
FreeFree
100k Page Views€9+ p/m
250k Page Views€19+ p/m
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
30 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
1-10+ depending on plan
1
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
Unlimited
1-10+ depending on plan
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)
  • 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
Mixpanel
You
Statcounter
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Unlimited
3-5+ years depending on plan
Unlimited*
84 months
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
e.g. import GA data
Import Google keyword data
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
Via raw data export API
Export your data to CSV
To a spreadsheet or other third party software.
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Statcounter uses cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
Important visitor alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
Weekly or monthly email reporting
Detailed, mobile-friendly reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
Device type, browser, OS & screen resolution
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Simple ordered list of pages visited
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Use filters to segment your audience
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Simple referral & UTM sources
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Recordings with many filtering options
A/B Testing
Experiments
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
By means of adding CSS classes
Max 5 custom tags + values per page
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights

Support

Support description
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.
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
Statcounter offers various support options like phone, email, live chat, 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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