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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.
Website owners who prioritize privacy and simplicity
Important considerations: Free accounts retain only one month of history and require a public badge; paid price varies with data-point volume and extra users.
| Attribute | Microsoft Clarity | Simple Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | A privacy-first analytics platform built around straightforward traffic reporting, lightweight event tracking, and GDPR-friendly measurement with minimal setup. |
| Pricing | Free forever with no traffic limits; unlimited heatmaps, websites, and team members are included | Free hobby plan with one month of history; paid self-serve pricing starts at €20/month for 100K monthly pageviews; Enterprise is custom |
| Deployment | Vendor-hosted cloud | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for | Website owners, marketers, and product teams that need free session replay and heatmaps | Website owners who prioritize privacy and simplicity |
| Operator | Microsoft Corporation Independent public company | Simple Analytics B.V. Independent private company |
| Company base | Redmond, United States · United States | Amsterdam, Netherlands · European Union |
| Organization scale | 228,000 employees · operator, as of 30 Jun 2025 | 3 team members · 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. |
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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. | Free accounts retain only one month of history and require a public badge; paid price varies with data-point volume and extra users. |
| Integrations | Google Analytics, Google Ads, WordPress, Shopify | Ghost, WordPress |
| 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. |
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 | Simple Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| AI insights | Listed | Listed |
| App analytics | Listed | Not listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Listed | Not listed |
| CCPA compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Not listed | Listed |
| Cross-device tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Not listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Goals | Listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Listed | Not listed |
| Integrations | Listed | Not listed |
| Privacy-first | Not listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Listed | Not listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |