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Mid-to-large product teams and UX researchers
Capabilities only listed for FullStory
Important considerations: Free excludes advanced dashboards, StoryAI, mobile capture, and configurable privacy; paid pricing is quote-based.
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Mid-to-large product teams and UX researchers
Important considerations: Free excludes advanced dashboards, StoryAI, mobile capture, and configurable privacy; paid pricing is quote-based.
Product, customer success, and digital adoption teams that need analytics plus in-app guidance, feedback, and enterprise governance
Important considerations: Paid prices are not public and depend on monthly active users and selected modules. Session Replay is not included in every plan, and Pendo Free stops creation of new guides, NPS surveys, or segments above 500 MAUs.
| Attribute | FullStory | Pendo |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | A digital experience analytics platform combining session replay, heatmaps, funnels, event analytics, and AI insights for both web and mobile. | A product experience and digital adoption platform combining product analytics, retroactive page and feature tagging, funnels, paths, retention, session replay, in-app guides, NPS and other sentiment tools, roadmaps, and AI-assisted insights. |
| Pricing | Fullstory Free includes 30,000 monthly sessions and 12 months of analytics retention; Business, Advanced, and Enterprise pricing is quote-based | Free plan for up to 500 monthly active users; paid Base, Core, and Ultimate plans use custom MAU- and module-based pricing; full-platform trial lasts 30 days |
| Deployment | Vendor-hosted cloud | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for | Mid-to-large product teams and UX researchers | Product, customer success, and digital adoption teams that need analytics plus in-app guidance, feedback, and enterprise governance |
| Operator | Fullstory, Inc. Independent private company | Pendo.io, Inc. Independent private company |
| Company base | Atlanta, United States · United States | Raleigh, United States · United States |
| Organization scale | at least 200 employees · operator, as of 5 May 2020 | at least 850 employees · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 |
| Recent direction | AI-assisted analysis Recent official evidence shows a focus on AI-assisted analysis. | AI-assisted analysis Recent official evidence shows a focus on AI-assisted analysis. |
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| Important considerations | Free excludes advanced dashboards, StoryAI, mobile capture, and configurable privacy; paid pricing is quote-based. | Paid prices are not public and depend on monthly active users and selected modules. Session Replay is not included in every plan, and Pendo Free stops creation of new guides, NPS surveys, or segments above 500 MAUs. |
| Integrations | Segment, Salesforce, CRMs, Dev tools | Salesforce, Slack, Jira, Segment, Snowflake, Zendesk, HubSpot, Microsoft Teams |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09. |
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 | FullStory | Pendo |
|---|---|---|
| AI insights | Listed | Listed |
| App analytics | Listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Listed | Not listed |
| Cohort analysis | Listed | Listed |
| Cross-device tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Listed |
| Error tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Listed | Not listed |
| Goals | Listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Listed | Not listed |
| Integrations | Listed | Listed |
| Personalization | Not listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Listed | Not listed |
| Retention analytics | Listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Session recordings | Listed | Listed |
| Surveys | Not listed | Listed |
| User feedback | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Not listed | Listed |