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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.
Privacy-conscious product, engineering, marketing, and agency teams that want deeper self-hostable analytics with replay and error context
Important considerations: Cloud session replay requires Pro and there is no permanent cloud free plan. Self-hosting is free but requires operating its database, upgrades, storage, privacy controls, and backups.
| Attribute | Microsoft Clarity | Rybbit |
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| Overview | 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. | An open-source web and product analytics platform with cookieless real-time traffic, custom events, user profiles, funnels, journeys, retention, error tracking, Web Vitals, and session replay in cloud or self-hosted editions. |
| Pricing | Free forever with no traffic limits; unlimited heatmaps, websites, and team members are included | 7-day cloud trial; Standard starts at $13/month and Pro at $26/month billed annually for 100,000 monthly pageviews; Enterprise is custom; AGPL self-hosting is free |
| Deployment | Vendor-hosted cloud | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Website owners, marketers, and product teams that need free session replay and heatmaps | Privacy-conscious product, engineering, marketing, and agency teams that want deeper self-hostable analytics with replay and error context |
| Operator | Microsoft Corporation Independent public company | Rybbit Independent project |
| Company base | Redmond, United States · United States | Distributed organization |
| Organization scale | 228,000 employees · operator, as of 30 Jun 2025 | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. |
| Recent direction | marketing attribution Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution. | self-hosted expansion Recent official evidence shows a focus on self-hosted expansion. |
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| 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. | Cloud session replay requires Pro and there is no permanent cloud free plan. Self-hosting is free but requires operating its database, upgrades, storage, privacy controls, and backups. |
| Integrations | Google Analytics, Google Ads, WordPress, Shopify | Google Search Console, Google Tag Manager, WordPress, Shopify, Stats API |
| 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 | Microsoft Clarity | Rybbit |
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| AI insights | Listed | Not listed |
| App analytics | Listed | Not listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Not listed | Listed |
| Cross-device tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Custom reports | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Not listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Listed |
| Error tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Not listed |
| Funnels | Not 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 | Not listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Not listed | Listed |
| SEO research | Not listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Listed | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Not listed | Listed |