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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.
Compare pricing, deployment, product fit, integrations, and capabilities side by side.
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.
Privacy-conscious site owners, SaaS teams, and agencies that need compact traffic and conversion analytics without session replay
Important considerations: There is no permanent cloud free plan. Self-hosting is an Enterprise license rather than the standard open-source deployment path, and pageviews, events, and session extensions count toward usage.
| Attribute | FullStory | Pirsch Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | A digital experience analytics platform combining session replay, heatmaps, funnels, event analytics, and AI insights for both web and mobile. | A privacy-friendly web analytics service with cookieless visitor measurement, events, goals, session analysis, funnels, revenue metrics, Search Console data, A/B testing, APIs, and an Enterprise self-hosting option. |
| Pricing | Fullstory Free includes 30,000 monthly sessions and 12 months of analytics retention; Business, Advanced, and Enterprise pricing is quote-based | 30-day trial; Standard starts at $6/month and Plus at $12/month for 10,000 monthly pageviews; Enterprise and self-hosted deployment use custom pricing |
| Deployment | Vendor-hosted cloud | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Mid-to-large product teams and UX researchers | Privacy-conscious site owners, SaaS teams, and agencies that need compact traffic and conversion analytics without session replay |
| Operator | Fullstory, Inc. Independent private company | Emvi Software GmbH Independent private company |
| Company base | Atlanta, United States · United States | Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany · European Union |
| Organization scale | at least 200 employees · operator, as of 5 May 2020 | 1 employees · operator, as of 30 Dec 2025 |
| Recent direction | AI-assisted analysis Recent official evidence shows a focus on AI-assisted analysis. | marketing attribution Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution. |
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| Important considerations | Free excludes advanced dashboards, StoryAI, mobile capture, and configurable privacy; paid pricing is quote-based. | There is no permanent cloud free plan. Self-hosting is an Enterprise license rather than the standard open-source deployment path, and pageviews, events, and session extensions count toward usage. |
| Integrations | Segment, Salesforce, CRMs, Dev tools | Google Search Console, WordPress, REST API, Webhooks, JavaScript and server SDKs |
| 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 | Pirsch Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| A/B testing | Not listed | Listed |
| AI insights | Listed | Not listed |
| App analytics | Listed | Not listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Not listed |
| Behavior analytics | Listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Listed | Not listed |
| Cohort analysis | Listed | Not listed |
| Cookieless | Not listed | Listed |
| Cross-device tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Custom reports | Listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Not listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Listed |
| Error tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Not listed |
| Funnels | Listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Goals | Listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Listed | Not listed |
| Integrations | Listed | Listed |
| Open source | Not listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Not listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Listed | Listed |
| Retention analytics | Listed | Not listed |
| Revenue tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Not listed | Listed |
| SEO research | Not listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Listed | Not listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Not listed | Listed |