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Summary
Chartbeat is a suite of content analytics tools for publishers that lets you track reader engagement on your site, optimize your user experience in real-time, and share key metrics with your team.
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
An open-source marketing analytics tool that respects data-privacy. With two hosting options, it is completely cookieless and it lets you own all your data.
Pros
  • Comes with headline testing tool
  • Dashboards are easy to read
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good referral report
  • Easy to set up
  • Great interface design
  • Reasonable pricing
  • Good session recordings
  • Open-source
  • Simple to understand interface
  • You own your data
  • Provacy-friendly
  • Lightweight script (2kb)
Cons
  • Mainly designed for publishers
  • Their pricing is untransparent
  • Traffic sources could be improved
  • Feature flags are limited
  • Limited amount of graph types
  • Filtering could be improved
  • Not a great amount of features

Pricing information

Starting Price
BasicOn req.
PlusOn req.
PremiumOn req.
Cloud LiteFree
Cloud€0.005 per event / recording
Enterprise Cloud€450 p/m minimum
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited for all plans
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
  • United States
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
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
Chartbeat
You
Pendo
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Realtime
Data Retention
13 months
Unlimited
84 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Umami does not sample data
Data Import
Historical data ingestion
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
via API as JSON file
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
Cookieless
Uses first-party cookies by default. Cookieless mode is optional.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Umami Analytics does not use cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
for Business & Enterprise plans
Email Reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
User journey analysis
Segmentation
Simple filters like browser, OS, and country
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
UTM & channel attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Revenue tracking

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
Session replays
A/B Testing
Headline A/B testing tool
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Track everything from clicks to form submit
Annotations

Support

Support description
Chartbeat's support is accessible by email during regular office hours. Overall they provide extensive documentation, but their support staff is responsive and very knowledgable in case you face issues.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
The support options of Umami Analytics consist of a knowledge base, an online community and you can contact them via e-mail.
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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