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4/5
5/5
Summary
Powerful, self-serve product analytics to help you convert, engage, and retain more users. Build funnels, see top user flows, create cohorts, and more with just a few clicks.
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.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Pros
  • Interface is easy to understand
  • Great support options
  • Reporting is in realtime
  • Good community
  • 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
  • AI-powered attribution
  • Combined web + product analytics
  • Auto-capture without developers
  • Privacy-friendly
Cons
  • Event setup requires tech skills
  • Contains hard to discover features
  • Has a steep learning curve
  • Visitors are only recognized for up to 24 hours to comply with the privacy policy
  • Heatmaps and session recordings are not available
  • Relatively new player
  • No self-hosting option

Pricing information

Starting Price
FreeFree
EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
30 days
Free plan

Account Management

Trackable Items
1
Unlimited in Portfolio plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
3+ depending on plan
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)
  • 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
Mixpanel
Pendo
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Hourly updates
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
84 months
Unlimited
Unlimited
Data Sampling
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Import historical data by CSV
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Google Analytics importer
Data Export
Via raw data export API
Export feedback & reports by CSV or pull data to BI tool
via API or CSV
Via API or CSV
Compliance
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • HIPAA
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
  • ePrivacy
  • PECR
  • GDPR
  • CCPA
Cookieless
Mixpanel relies on first-party cookies
Pendo uses first-party cookies
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Cookieless tracking available

Alerts & Automation

Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Guide, Page & Feature alerts
Threshold-based alerts
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
Recieve reports in weekly emails
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Scheduled email reports

Reporting

Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
Analyze Funnels
AI-powered funnel analysis
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Entry and exit pages
User journey visualization
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Extensive filtering by any metric
Segments & cohorts
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
See Cohort analysis
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
Revenue attribution

User Experience Features

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

Customizability

Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom properties
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Change the widgets of a report
Custom dashboards
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
With additional metadata fields (key-value pairs).
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights

Support

Support description
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
The Pendo support consists of a phone helpdesk, a live chat function, an extensive knowledge base and a community.
Email support, public Discord server
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
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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