| 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-focused website intelligence suite with cookieless analytics, session recordings, heatmaps, funnels, polls, surveys, company reveal, and AI-assisted reporting. |
| Pricing |
Free forever with no traffic limits; unlimited heatmaps, websites, and team members are included | 30-day unlimited trial, then Free Forever; Starter starts at $2.99/month or $2.39/month billed yearly, with higher self-serve and custom tiers |
| Deployment |
Vendor-hosted cloud | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for |
Website owners, marketers, and product teams that need free session replay and heatmaps | Businesses that prioritize data privacy and need advanced analytics tools |
| Operator |
Microsoft Corporation Independent public company | Visitor Analytics GmbH Independent private company |
| Company base |
Redmond, United States · United States | Berg, Germany · European Union |
| 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. | AI-assisted analysis Recent official evidence shows a focus on AI-assisted analysis. |
| Key features |
- Always-on session recordings
- Click, scroll, area, and conversion heatmaps
- Rage-click and dead-click insights
- Smart events
- Session and heatmap summaries
- Web and mobile app capture
- Google Analytics integration
- 40+ filters
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- Cookieless tracking
- Session recordings
- Heatmaps
- Conversion funnels
- Polls
- Surveys
- Real-time analytics
- Data export
- GDPR compliant
- CCPA compliant
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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 and low-cost tiers have small pageview, event, replay, heatmap, funnel, poll, and survey allowances. |
| Integrations |
Google Analytics, Google Ads, WordPress, Shopify | WordPress, Wix, TYPO3 |
| 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. |