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Lucky Orange

Only Lucky Orange has:

  • Attribution Reporting
  • Session Recordings

Pendo

Only Pendo has:

  • Cohort Reports
  • Retention Reporting

Pirsch Analytics

Only Pirsch Analytics has:

  • User Flow Reporting
  • Ecommerce Reporting
  • Custom Properties

Swetrix

From $5 / mo

Only Swetrix has:

  • Annotations
Summary
A website UX tool. See how your visitors actually use your website. It features visitor recordings, live chat, heat map suite, analytics, polls, & more.
Pendo is a product-analytics app that helps software companies develop products that resonate with customers.
Pirsch is a simple, cookie-free, open-source web analytics solution that integrates easily into your website or backend.
Ultimate open-source analytics to satisfy all your needs. Track every metric you need without invading your users' privacy.
Pros
  • 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
  • Privacy-focused
  • Performance monitoring
  • Open-source
  • Browser extensions for quick access to analytics
  • Messenger integrations
Cons
  • 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
  • Limited integration capabilities

Pricing information

Starting Price
  • Hobby$5 / mo
  • Freelancer$15 / mo
  • Startup$59 / mo
  • Enterprise$110 / mo
Free trial period
7 days
Free plan
30 days
14 days

Account Management

Trackable Items
1 per plan but option to add 1 for €5
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
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
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • 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
Lucky Orange
Pendo
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Hourly updates
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
2 months for heatmaps & recordings and 12 for other features
84 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Swetrix does not sample data
Data Import
Import historical data by CSV
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Data Export
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
via API or CSV
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • CPPA
Cookieless
Lucky orange uses first-party cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
Email Reports
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly

Reporting

Trend Reporting
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Funnel Reporting
Analyze Funnels
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
Segmentation
Extensive filtering by any metric
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
See Cohort analysis
Attribution Reporting
Simple referrer graph
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals

User Experience Features

Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
User Feedback

Customizability

Custom Properties
As part of custom events
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
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
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
Soon to be released

Support

Support description
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.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
Email support, public Discord server
Swetrix offers online support in the chatbox on the website, via social-media (i.e. Twitter, Linkedin, Discord) and via Email.
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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