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Rating
5/5
Summary
One easy dashboard to see how many visitors are coming to your website, where they come from and what they do once they're there. Without cookies. Without stalking. Still lightweight.
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.
Ultimate open-source analytics to satisfy all your needs. Track every metric you need without invading your users' privacy.
Pros
- Privacy focused
- Cookieless
- Lightweight script
- Good support
- Easy to use
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- Privacy-focused
- Performance monitoring
- Open-source
- Browser extensions for quick access to analytics
- Messenger integrations
Cons
- Limited features due to cookieless
- Not very customisable
- No free version
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- Limited integration capabilities
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Starter | €15 p/m |
| Business | €40 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
| Hobby | $5 / mo |
| Freelancer | $15 / mo |
| Startup | $59 / mo |
| Enterprise | $110 / mo |
Free trial period
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
14 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
5-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
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
- 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
You
You
Pendo
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
84 months
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Swetrix does not sample data
Data Import
GA importer included
Historical data ingestion
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
As CSV or via API
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- CPPA
Cookieless
Simple Analytics is cookieless by default.
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
Email Reports
Daily, weekly, monthly
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Curved and linear trend lines
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Device Reporting
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Funnel Reporting
Line up goals for simple funnel
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Filter dashboard with visitor attributes
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Ecommerce Reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Receive custom reports by email. You can also add unlimited amount of email addresses to be subscribed to the traffic report newsletter.
Custom Events
You can track custom events. Custom events also support lots of customisations (e.g. you may track if you want 1 custom event per 1 unique session, etc).
Annotations
Able to include links in annotations
Soon to be released
Support
Support description
Simple Analytics offers knowledgable support through phone and email.
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.
Swetrix offers online support in the chatbox on the website, via social-media (i.e. Twitter, Linkedin, Discord) and via Email.
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



