| Overview |
Google's mainstream analytics platform for web and app measurement, built around GA4 events, attribution, advertising integrations, and BigQuery-connected reporting for larger deployments. | An automatic product analytics platform, now part of Contentsquare, that focuses on low-code event capture, funnels, journeys, enrichment, and enterprise-ready data governance. |
| Pricing |
GA4 standard is free; Google Analytics 360 is enterprise-priced via Google sales | Free up to 10K monthly sessions; Growth is self-serve; Pro and Premier are custom-priced, with replay and heatmaps sold as add-ons |
| Deployment |
Vendor-hosted cloud | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for |
All website owners, from small businesses to enterprises | Product teams and marketers who want automatic tracking and user behavior insights |
| Operator |
Google LLC Subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. | Heap Inc. Subsidiary of Content Square SAS |
| Company base |
Mountain View, United States · United States | San Francisco, United States · United States |
| Organization scale |
190,820 employees · parent company, as of 31 Dec 2025 | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. |
| Recent direction |
marketing attribution Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution. | suite consolidation Recent official evidence shows a focus on suite consolidation. |
| Key features |
- Web and app event analytics
- Real-time reports
- E-commerce measurement
- Advertising attribution
- Audience building
- Explorations and funnels
- BigQuery export
- Google Ads integration
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- Automatic event capture
- Funnels and journeys
- Retention analysis
- Session replay
- Heatmaps
- Error analysis
- Data enrichment
- Warehouse connections
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| Important considerations |
GA4 has a steep reporting and consent-configuration learning curve; Analytics 360 pricing is not public and standard properties have lower limits. | Session replay, heatmaps, and error analysis are add-ons on Pro and Premier; pricing above Growth is custom. |
| Integrations |
Google Ads, BigQuery, Shopify | Segment, Salesforce |
| 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. |