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Choose Microsoft Clarity ifWebsite 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.
Choose Umami ifTech-savvy users and businesses prioritizing privacy and simplicity
Important considerations: Cloud counts pageviews, custom events and each stored event property toward usage. Session replay and heatmaps require Cloud Business or Enterprise; Business includes 5,000 replays, then $0.005 each. Cloud has features beyond self-hosting; check edition parity and operating costs.
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| Attribute | Microsoft Clarity | Umami |
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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, self-hosted or managed-cloud analytics platform with cookieless traffic and event reporting plus newer funnels, revenue, Web Vitals, session replay, and heatmap capabilities. |
| Pricing | Free forever with no traffic limits; unlimited heatmaps, websites, and team members are included | Free self-hosting. Cloud Hobby: $0 for 100K events/month and one website; Pro: $20/month with 1M events; Business: $200/month with 10M events; Enterprise: custom. Paid overages are metered. |
| Deployment | Vendor-hosted cloud | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Website owners, marketers, and product teams that need free session replay and heatmaps | Tech-savvy users and businesses prioritizing privacy and simplicity |
| Operator | Microsoft Corporation Independent public company | Umami Software, Inc. Independent private company |
| Company base | Redmond, United States · United States | San Francisco, United States · United States |
| 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. | behavior analysis Recent official evidence shows a focus on behavior 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. | Cloud counts pageviews, custom events and each stored event property toward usage. Session replay and heatmaps require Cloud Business or Enterprise; Business includes 5,000 replays, then $0.005 each. Cloud has features beyond self-hosting; check edition parity and operating costs. |
| Integrations | Google Analytics, Google Ads, WordPress, Shopify | WordPress, Vercel |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30. |
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.
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| Attribute | Microsoft Clarity | Umami |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Listed |
| Custom reports | Not listed | 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 | Listed |
| Integrations | Listed | Listed |
| Open source | Not listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Not listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Listed | Listed |
| Retention analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Not listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Listed | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |