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Summary
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
A website optimization tool to analyze visitor's behavior across email & ad campaigns. Investigate buyers' journeys, identify audience segments present across webpages, and spot issues.
Snowplow is an enterprise-strength event analytics platform. It Identifies its users and tracks the way they engage with the website or application.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pros
  • Easy to set up
  • Great interface design
  • Reasonable pricing
  • Good session recordings
  • Easy heatmaps
  • Customer feedback surveys
  • Simple but good A/B testing
  • Easy to set up
  • Elaborate data import options
  • Simple Client-side & server-side tracking
  • Great support
Cons
  • Feature flags are limited
  • Limited amount of graph types
  • Filtering could be improved
  • Few intergrations with other tools
  • Easy to hit the max number of snapshots
  • Steep learning curve
  • Technical knowledge needed for implementation
  • Only a collection tool

Pricing information

Starting Price
Cloud LiteFree
Cloud€0.005 per event / recording
Enterprise Cloud€450 p/m minimum
Basic$29 p/m
Plus$99 p/m
Pro$249 p/m
Enterprise$599 p/m
Test & Experiment TrackingFree
Self-Hosted PipelineOn req.
Snowplow PlatformOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
30 days
14 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
User Seats
Unlimited
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
  • United States
  • United States
  • United Kingdom
  • 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
Crazy Egg
You
Pendo
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Hourly updates
Data Retention
Unlimited
Between 3 & 24 months depending on the plan
Unlimited
84 months
Data Sampling
Data Import
Historical data ingestion
Import historical data by CSV
Data Export
Download reports or snapshots as a zipfile or CSV
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
Cookieless
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Crazy Egg uses first-party cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Email Reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Receive reports or Snapshots by mail
Recieve reports in weekly emails

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
See which device the user used
Funnel Reporting
User Flow Reporting
Segmentation
Segment users by device, location, etc.
Cohort Reports
Based on first visit, first action, channel or custom events
Retention Reporting
CLTV Analysis
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
By means of referral tracking
Ecommerce Reporting

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Heatmap, scrollmap, confetti report, overlay & list
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
With realtime results
User Feedback
Surveys
Surveys, NPS scores & ratings

Customizability

Custom Properties
Custom tagging for segmenting users
Custom Metrics
Custom users variables
Custom Reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom Events
Annotations

Support

Support description
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.
Crazy Egg offers an extensive knowledge base, a ticketing system, and email as their support options. For the plus, pro, and enterprise plans it offers priority 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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