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Choose Offen Fair Web Analytics ifTeams that value visitor access to their own analytics data and accept measuring only people who opt in.
Important considerations: Uses first-party cookies after opt-in; it is not cookieless. Data expires after six months. Public releases last recorded here are from May 2024; assess maintenance and security before adoption.
Choose Pendo ifProduct, customer success, and digital adoption teams that need analytics plus in-app guidance, feedback, and enterprise governance
Important considerations: Paid prices are not public and depend on monthly active users and selected modules. Session Replay is not included in every plan, and Pendo Free stops creation of new guides, NPS surveys, or segments above 500 MAUs.
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| Attribute | Offen Fair Web Analytics | Pendo |
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| Overview | A self-hosted analytics project built around explicit visitor consent and end-to-end encrypted usage data. Visitors can inspect and delete their own data; operators get aggregate traffic reports. | A product experience and digital adoption platform combining product analytics, retroactive page and feature tagging, funnels, paths, retention, session replay, in-app guides, NPS and other sentiment tools, roadmaps, and AI-assisted insights. |
| Pricing | Free Apache-2.0-licensed software; hosting and operational work are separate costs. | Free plan for up to 500 monthly active users; paid Base, Core, and Ultimate plans use custom MAU- and module-based pricing; full-platform trial lasts 30 days |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for | Teams that value visitor access to their own analytics data and accept measuring only people who opt in. | Product, customer success, and digital adoption teams that need analytics plus in-app guidance, feedback, and enterprise governance |
| Operator | Offen project Independent project | Pendo.io, Inc. Independent private company |
| Company base | Berlin, Germany · European Union | Raleigh, United States · United States |
| Organization scale | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. | at least 850 employees · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 |
| Recent direction | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. | AI-assisted analysis Recent official evidence shows a focus on AI-assisted analysis. |
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| Important considerations | Uses first-party cookies after opt-in; it is not cookieless. Data expires after six months. Public releases last recorded here are from May 2024; assess maintenance and security before adoption. | Paid prices are not public and depend on monthly active users and selected modules. Session Replay is not included in every plan, and Pendo Free stops creation of new guides, NPS surveys, or segments above 500 MAUs. |
| Integrations | JavaScript, Docker | Salesforce, Slack, Jira, Segment, Snowflake, Zendesk, HubSpot, Microsoft Teams |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30. | 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.
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| Attribute | Offen Fair Web Analytics | Pendo |
|---|---|---|
| AI insights | Not listed | Listed |
| App analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Not listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Cohort analysis | Not listed | Listed |
| Cross-device tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Not listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Listed | Not listed |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Not listed | Listed |
| Goals | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Not listed | Listed |
| Open source | Listed | Not listed |
| Personalization | Not listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Not listed |
| Retention analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Not listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| Surveys | Not listed | Listed |
| User feedback | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Not listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Listed |