| 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 AI-assisted digital experience platform that connects web and mobile session replay with product analytics, frontend errors, network logs, performance monitoring, heatmaps, funnels, surveys, and issue diagnosis. |
| Pricing |
GA4 standard is free; Google Analytics 360 is enterprise-priced via Google sales | Session-based pricing with a 14-day trial; the public calculator currently starts at $176/month for 25,000 captured sessions, while final cost depends on seats, retention, add-ons, and deployment |
| Deployment |
Vendor-hosted cloud | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for |
All website owners, from small businesses to enterprises | Product, engineering, support, and UX teams that need replay tied to technical diagnostics and product analytics |
| Operator |
Google LLC Subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. | LogRocket, Inc. Independent private company |
| Company base |
Mountain View, United States · United States | Boston, United States · United States |
| Organization scale |
190,820 employees · parent company, as of 31 Dec 2025 | at least 110 employees · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 |
| Recent direction |
marketing attribution Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution. | AI-assisted analysis Recent official evidence shows a focus on AI-assisted analysis. |
| 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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- Web and mobile session replay
- Product analytics
- Frontend error and network context
- Performance monitoring
- Funnels and path analysis
- Heatmaps and clickmaps
- Galileo AI summaries and issue detection
- Surveys
- MCP and API access
- Enterprise self-hosting
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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. | Cost scales with captured sessions and configuration. Self-hosting is an Enterprise option rather than a free community edition; Galileo AI and enterprise controls depend on packaging. |
| Integrations |
Google Ads, BigQuery, Shopify | Sentry, Datadog, Jira, Salesforce, Segment, Snowflake |
| 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. |