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Summary
Open Web Analytics is the free and open source web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and application
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.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
- The software is open source
- It is very customizable
- Ecommerce reporting
- Privacy friendly
- The script is lightweight
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- Permanent free plan with session replay
- Choice of EU or US data center
- SOC 2 and ISO 27001, 27701 and 42001 certifications
- Warehouse sync to BigQuery, Snowflake and Redshift
Cons
- Limited reporting features
- Technical skill required
- Comply with data privacy regulations
- You need a secure server
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- Paid prices not published
- Dashboards and StoryAI not in the free plan
- Alerts and retention reports need an Advanced or Enterprise plan
- Moving to the EU data center means opening a new account
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
| FullstoryFree | Free |
| Business | On req. |
| Advanced | On req. |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
10 on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
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
- Not applicable
- United States
- United States
- 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
You
Pendo
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
84 months
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Data Import
by means of the REST API
Historical data ingestion
Import historical data by CSV
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
by means of the REST API
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Sets first-party cookies (owa_v, owa_c, session). Lifetimes can be shortened or made session-only.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
User segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
Order Completed and Product Purchased events
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Domstream
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Surveys
Guides and Surveys add-on
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
Annotations
Support
Support description
Because Open Web Analytics is open source, all documentation is found on GitHub. Apart from the community, there are no support options available.
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.
Support is by email and support ticket during regional weekday business hours, with a help center and community forum. Free plan tickets have a 2 business day response target, paying customers 1 business day. A Premium Support add-on gives 24/7 critical support. The FullstoryFree help article lists email support as a paid plan feature, while the support hours article lists a response target for free plan customers.
Support Options
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community