| 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 self-hosted analytics and behavior analytics platform for teams that want full data ownership plus heatmaps, session recordings, funnels, A/B tests, error tracking, and AI-assisted analysis without recurring SaaS fees. |
| Pricing |
Free forever with no traffic limits; unlimited heatmaps, websites, and team members are included | Perpetual licenses: Solo $299, Growth & Scale $749, Agency $2,490; one year of updates and support included |
| Deployment |
Vendor-hosted cloud | Self-hosted |
| Best for |
Website owners, marketers, and product teams that need free session replay and heatmaps | Privacy-conscious teams that want a feature-rich self-hosted alternative to Hotjar and cloud analytics suites |
| Operator |
Microsoft Corporation Independent public company | TIPS4DESIGN SRL Independent private company |
| Company base |
Redmond, United States · United States | Romania · 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. | self-hosted expansion Recent official evidence shows a focus on self-hosted expansion. |
| 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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- Self-hosted
- Heatmaps
- Session recordings
- A/B testing
- User segments
- Goals
- Error tracking
- AI insights
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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. | You operate the PHP and MySQL installation, backups, updates, retention, and privacy configuration; hosted service is available only by request. |
| Integrations |
Google Analytics, Google Ads, WordPress, Shopify | WordPress, DigitalOcean |
| 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. |