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Pirsch Analytics
No feature only Pirsch Analytics has.
Swetrix
From $5 / mo
Only Swetrix has:
- Annotations
Usermaven
Only Usermaven has:
- Cohort Reports
- Attribution Reporting
Fullstory
Free plan
Only Fullstory has:
- Heatmaps
- Session Recordings
- User Feedback
Usermaven
Fullstory
Summary
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.
AI-powered analytics and attribution platform that unifies website, product, and marketing data in one tool.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
- 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
- AI-powered attribution
- Combined web + product analytics
- Auto-capture without developers
- Privacy-friendly
- Permanent free plan with session replay
- Choice of EU or US data center
- SOC 2 and ISO 27001, 27701 and 42001 certifications
- Warehouse sync to BigQuery, Snowflake and Redshift
Cons
- 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
- Relatively new player
- No self-hosting option
- Paid prices not published
- Dashboards and StoryAI not in the free plan
- Alerts and retention reports need an Advanced or Enterprise plan
- Moving to the EU data center means opening a new account
Pricing information
Starting Price
- Hobby$5 / mo
- Freelancer$15 / mo
- Startup$59 / mo
- Enterprise$110 / mo
- FullstoryFreeFree
- BusinessOn req.
- AdvancedOn req.
- EnterpriseOn req.
Free trial period
30 days
14 days
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
Unlimited
Unlimited
3+ depending on plan
10 on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
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)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- 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
You
You
You
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
Realtime
Realtime
Data Retention
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Swetrix does not sample data
Usermaven does not sample data
Data Import
Import from Plausible, Fathom or Google Analytics
Google Analytics importer
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
via API or CSV
via API, CSV, JSON or any other format (users are able to write custom extensions for that)
Via API or CSV
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- ePrivacy
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- CPPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Pirsch Analytics does not use cookies
Swetrix does not use cookies for tracking
Cookieless tracking available
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or at threshold
Threshold-based alerts
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Daily, Weekly, Bi-weekly, Monthly
Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly
Scheduled email reports
Reporting
Trend Reporting
We offer AI based traffic forecasting & trend monitoring
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device type, OS, Browser, Browser version, Screen size
Country, browser, device type, language, utm_* metrics, performance statistics and more
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Analyze Funnels
AI-powered funnel analysis
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Entry and exit pages
User journey visualization
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Extensive filtering by any metric
You can segment data via multiple filters, apply specific timeframes & periods
Segments & cohorts
User segments
Cohort Reports
Retention Reporting
Retention analysis (Business plan)
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Multi-touch attribution with 7 models
Ecommerce Reporting
Possible with custom events and goals
Revenue attribution
Order Completed and Product Purchased events
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
Tag-based A/B testing and segmentation
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Guides and Surveys add-on
Customizability
Custom Properties
As part of custom events
Custom properties
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Receive custom reports by email. You can also add unlimited amount of email addresses to be subscribed to the traffic report newsletter.
Custom dashboards
Dashboards, paid plans
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).
Auto-captured events
Annotations
Soon to be released
Support
Support description
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.
Usermaven offers documentation, live chat support, and email support.
Support is by email and support ticket during regional weekday business hours, with a help center and community forum. Free plan tickets have a 2 business day response target, paying customers 1 business day. A Premium Support add-on gives 24/7 critical support. The FullstoryFree help article lists email support as a paid plan feature, while the support hours article lists a response target for free plan customers.
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