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Rating
5/5
Summary
An open-source product analytics for developers. It helps engineers understand their product usage, automate events, and user data collection.
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Pros
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
- Easy to use
- Great tagging feature
- Attentive support team
- Lightweight, cookie-free and open-source
- Pirsch's backend integration requires no client-side scripts and delivers the same accurate results without the interference of adblockers
- Extensive API
- Fully-fledged access management
- Comprehensive filtering by any metric including event metadata
Cons
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
- New version can be glitchy
- Slight learning curve for beginners
- Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
- Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
Free plan
7 days
30 days
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Account Security
- 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
- European Economic Area (EEA)
Software Hosting
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
Lucky Orange
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Data Import
Historical data ingestion
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
via API or CSV
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
Cookieless
Posthog has the option to be used without cookies
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Extensive filtering by any metric
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Feature flags and A/B testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom Metrics
Custom Reports
Custom Events
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
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.
Lucky Orange offers support by means of email, a live chat, and a ticketing system. Besides that, they have an extensive knowledge base and they offer an onboarding service.
Email support, public Discord server
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
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