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Small to medium-sized businesses looking for affordable real-time analytics
Important considerations: Free accounts cover one site and 3,000 daily pageviews; heatmaps and uptime monitoring require Pro Plus or higher.
Website owners, marketers, and product teams that need free session replay and heatmaps
Important considerations: Clarity is vendor-hosted and uses cookies. Teams must review consent and data policies; it emphasizes qualitative behavior analysis rather than replacing a complete first-party analytics stack.
| Attribute | Clicky | Microsoft Clarity |
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| Overview | A hosted real-time web analytics platform with individual visitor activity, path analysis, goals, revenue tracking, heatmaps, uptime monitoring, exports, and white-label options. | Microsoft's free behavior analytics service for websites and mobile apps, with always-on session recordings, click and scroll heatmaps, smart events, frustration signals, and Copilot-powered summaries. |
| Pricing | Free for one site and 3,000 daily pageviews; paid plans start at $9.99/month or $79.99/year | Free forever with no traffic limits; unlimited heatmaps, websites, and team members are included |
| Deployment | Vendor-hosted cloud | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for | Small to medium-sized businesses looking for affordable real-time analytics | Website owners, marketers, and product teams that need free session replay and heatmaps |
| Operator | Roxr Software, Ltd. Independent private company | Microsoft Corporation Independent public company |
| Company base | Portland, United States · United States | Redmond, United States · United States |
| Organization scale | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. | 228,000 employees · operator, as of 30 Jun 2025 |
| Recent direction | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. | marketing attribution Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution. |
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| Important considerations | Free accounts cover one site and 3,000 daily pageviews; heatmaps and uptime monitoring require Pro Plus or higher. | Clarity is vendor-hosted and uses cookies. Teams must review consent and data policies; it emphasizes qualitative behavior analysis rather than replacing a complete first-party analytics stack. |
| Integrations | WordPress, Shopify | Google Analytics, Google Ads, WordPress, Shopify |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. |
This matrix shows capabilities recorded in our catalog. Not listed means we have not confirmed the capability here. Check the linked vendor sources for plan, deployment, and usage limits.
| Attribute | Clicky | Microsoft Clarity |
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| Ad-blocker resistant | Listed | Not listed |
| AI insights | Not listed | Listed |
| App analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Cross-device tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Listed | Not listed |
| GDPR compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Goals | Listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Not listed |
| Real-time data | Listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |