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    Amplitude Analytics

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AAmplitude Analytics is an analytics platform for mobile and web. It is designed to help organizations segment users and analyze funnels, retention and revenue. Amplitude Analytics helps product marketers to achieve actionable insights from customer digital journeys and uses behavioral graphs to build customer-focused products. Amplitude also optimizes digital products for increased quality engagements, increased conversion rates, and long-term customer loyalty.

    $61

    per month

    Heap

    Score7.9 out of 10
    Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
    Heap is a web analytics platform captures every user interaction on web iOS with no extra code. The tool allows you to track events and set up funnels to understand user flow and dropoff. It also provides visualization tools to track trends over time.

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    Pricing
    Amplitude AnalyticsHeap
    Editions & Modules
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    $49
    per month (paid annually)
    Growth
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    Enterprise
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    Starter
    Free
    Free
    $0
    Up to 10k sessions/month
    Growth
    Starting at $3,600 annually
    Up to 300k sessions/year
    Pro
    Contact Heap Sales
    Custom sessions per month and unlimited projects
    Premier
    Contact Heap Sales
    Custom sessions per month
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    Pricing Offerings
    Amplitude AnalyticsHeap
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Heap pricing is based on session volume. A session is a period of activity from a single user on your app or website. It can include many pageviews or events.
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    Community Pulse
    Amplitude AnalyticsHeap
    Considered Both Products
    Amplitude
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    Heap
    Chose Heap
    Heap is better because its easy to use, easy to install. With Heap you just add a snippet of tracking code to your header, instead of having to instrument each event like you do with other tools.
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    Chose Heap
    Heap is better then Pendo and Amplitude. Compared to Amplitude, Heap is cheaper and easier to analyze and use. Configurations might be cumbersome but in the long run, users find it very seamless and easy. Compared to Pendo, Heap offers much superior analytics, event …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    Heap offers a ton of functionality on a single platform.It also has an smart data science layer to offers suggestions for next steps in the analysis, allowing us to explore alternative paths we may not think to take. The low-code option for updating data is appealing, and there …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    Heap blows away the competition in this space in my opinion. Amplitude was the closest competitor but did not have the ease of instrumentation that Heap offers out of the box. Google Analytics has gotten worse year after year and was borderline worthless for our business, as …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    Heap is a little more user-friendly and much more robust than Google Analytics, but it is less user-friendly than Amplitude.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    During the procurement process, we looked at Google Analytics and Amplitude. Google Analytics is free, and it is a platform we are already using frequently at my company; however, it does not have the dynamic product analytics capabilities that we need. Amplitude is more …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    We currently use Domo, Heap, and Amplitude. We chose to keep Heap because it is user-friendly and easy to learn. We need the rest to make it a bit easier to analyze and create more powerful charts.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    Mixpanel forced us to put tracking tags everywhere which wasn’t helping us achieve our goals. amplitude looked good but found it harder to use
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    Ease of implementation combined with auto data capture makes it pretty fast to get insights.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    The only tool that compares is Adobe Analytics. I can't say enough good things about Heap's ease of use and ability to enable business users.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    For web analytics, I prefer Heap over some of its competitors like Adobe Analytics, Looker, or Google Analytics, primarily because I find it more intuitive to use. For mobile, I actually prefer Amplitude as I'm not sure that has been a priority for Heap (yet) and Amplitude does …
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    Chose Heap
    Most other tools have good features but heap has the historical data and collects every type of data you can imagine. That allows us to make new queries as things evolve while we still have the point of reference from all these data points. Other tools are good but its harder …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    Heap stood out from other tools in the following ways: Comprehensive auto-tracking and "spotlight" tool allows us to add event attributes through their UI which greatly reduces the reliance on Engineering resources for instrumentation. Their "Effort Analysis" tool helps …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    I'd say Heap is a simpler version of Amplitude. It does ~70% of what Amplitude does. If you're looking to go deeper with product analytics, it's hard to beat Amplitude.
    Incentivized
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    Amplitude: I used it a long time ago, the same story of viewing but not creating the platforms. Google: It was too confusing and overwhelming. I think Heap is a better UI and easier to manage.
    Incentivized
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    Auto-capture, familiar and easy UX
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    We're a fairly small team with limited Dev resources. So the main reason that we went with Heap is that it allows non-technical users to define events. That way we're never blocked by needing Dev to define an event and then waiting to collect data.
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    This platform is giving better services. [It] is incredible in terms of usage because it is so simple and easy to use. Moreover, there are so many different, unique, and innovative features that the whole user experience just amps up [in] an instant. Also, the support team is …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    Comparing to Mixpanel and Amplitude, the retro analytics option and the engineering light event implementation functions that Heap provides were crucial.

    Comparing to FullStory, Heap analytics BI options and the data complexity were the reasons.
    Incentivized
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    Heap's implementation is by far the easiest across the different analytics products I've used. The only downside is that the analysis part is a bit more confusing to set up, and sometimes the confidence of the auto track is a bit shaky, although, these issues can usually be …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    Pendo did not meet two of our key requirements: auto-capture of every user interaction (Pendo only captures events you manually tag, which becomes a part-time job on its own as the product changes), and a data warehouse integration (custom ETL pipelines have to be built and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    Pendo I don't see as a direct competitor, as Heap is much more flexible and powerful of a tool. I use Pendo for onboarding flows and metrics about that, but that's about it. We used Amplitude at my last company, but I was not a big user of it. My feeling about it is very …
    Incentivized
    Chose Heap
    Heap excelled in startup/time to value as well as cost.
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    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Score8 out of 10
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    Score7.9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Piano Analytics
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    User Ratings
    Amplitude AnalyticsHeap
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (31 ratings)
    8.1
    (232 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.3
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    7.7
    (3 ratings)
    8.9
    (64 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.4
    (61 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    9.0
    (8 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Online Training
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.0
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    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
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    8.2
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    User Testimonials
    Amplitude AnalyticsHeap
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Amplitude
    Amplitude Analytics is an excellent solution for anyone with a mobile app and you want to track what users are doing, are they completing conversion steps, and are they coming back more often. This all helps you visual your customer bases engagement and help project future engagement and create goals. This also helps with prioritizing products to address drop-off points in the product to increase conversions.
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    Heap
    Scenarios when Heap was well suited: It is when a user claims that he encountered a bug without giving us the details of the error message. Scenarios where it is less appropriate: Its when we try to capture user interaction in our mobile app
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    Pros
    Amplitude
    • Feature analytics - measuring frequency of usage
    • Time taken by users to convert in funnels
    • Actions that drive certain user behaviors in funnels via correlation
    • Actions that lead to user drop off in funnels via correlation
    • Comparing behavior of two custom user cohorts
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    Heap
    • Realtime interactions which are captured automatically is a unique feature which no other product offers.
    • Low code implementation is a big plus for marketing teams, as there is less dependency on engineering
    • Detailed customer behaviours can be studied with captured replay sessions
    • Due to all the above points - it helped to improve customer experience
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    Cons
    Amplitude
    • Some offerings seem duplicative, like dashboards and notebooks, which only seem to differ in that one can subscribe to dashboards
    • The messaging on valid vs invalid property types could be better explained to clarify which types (string, Boolean, integer, etc) are expected in particular scenarios. Though the type is usually set during event creation, we've often seen examples where the data received in production is different, leading to 'invalid type' errors
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    Heap
    • I think Heap can improve its onboarding; I would love to see some info that is helpful for someone who isn't in Heap every single day.
    • Sharing dashboards can be tricky, it feels like a huge learning curve that I already have forgotten how to do.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Amplitude
    Great product Good value for the cost/initiate Support docs and FAQs are great - they limit the necessity of reaching out to in-person support. So when you do call them ... it is for a legit question/issue, no just a "where is it" or a "how to I do xyz123?"
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    Heap
    It's a great platform. I'm glad that one of our product managers introduced it because it has allowed us to create all kinds of new functionality. We're not only able to create a better product experience from our communications because of Heap, but we're also able to generate all kinds of helpful analysis.
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    Usability
    Amplitude
    It's a fairly straightforward platform that's beginner friendly. The biggest usability hurdle is most often created by your own team, as it's imperative to know what event sources are being sent to Amplitude and what those event names are. Within being properly onboarded by a team member it can be hard to get started using Amplitude. It takes time to understand what data your company may be sending to the product, the naming conventions of events (especially if there are old or deprecated events names
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    Heap
    On a scale from 1-10, I find Heap to be incredibly user-friendly and easy to use. I enjoyed the training videos available and was quickly able to pick up how to create events and reports to track user interactions on our product. I would recommend Heap for its usability first and foremost.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Amplitude
    Alway up and running, or if there is a problem we can get back in the game right away. The reliability was a big selling point for me, and it was true when this company got it. Rollouts can be tough, but this was pretty seamless. Good support throughout the process, good documentation to handle questions/tips
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    Heap
    I've never run into any issues with Heap's availability, Heap is always there when I need it. I haven't run into any issues like application errors or unplanned outages during my 2+ years of using Heap. Each and every time I log in to Heap I have a completely functional experience
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    Performance
    Amplitude
    No issues, problems, or negative remarks from us!! We had a plan, vendor support was rock solid, our data folks have experience, OCM supported as needed, and we got the rollout done on time, on budget, and with only minor hiccups. SInce the rollout, most of us have already forgotten the hiccups and generally speak highly of the product
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    Heap
    Heap doesn't affect page load times considerably nor has a large impact [on] our overall score, as far as page loading times inside of the tool its pretty reliable to retrieve data as much as "instant" that it can be the delay seems to be on data getting tracked into the servers to be read but it's not significant.
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    Support Rating
    Amplitude
    I haven't used the Amplitude support other than their training docs so I can't speak too much to the in-person support but the docs are serviceable. Nothing too crazy but between the user tips, email notifications, and the decent number of docs I was able to get the support I needed to ramp up on the tool.
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    Heap
    Heap support has allowed us to troubleshoot and test a lot of different items. Their support team is always helpful and friendly, even when we come to them with the most complicated questions. I think this greatly improves the value proposition of the product because their support team is knowledgable and friendly.
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    In-Person Training
    Amplitude
    Virtual Not bad considering the timeframe and turnaround. The biggest benefit was for my end-users to hear a voice (other than mine/ours! LOL) telling them about the new features and capabilities. The in-person training was really good for having an expert that knows the answers and could refer to past experiences, problems, solutions. THey were a great resource to ease the transition ... basically a "you are gonna be okay with this change ... you got this etc.!" kinda vibe
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    Heap
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    Amplitude
    Good enough to get strong baseline. I always make sure our our users go to and/or focus on the vebndor-provided support docs rather than any formal training. Our instructors come and go, but written policy and how-to docs live much longer in a corporate setting. That said, the online training is sufficient. I like that the training curric is stacked and progressive.
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    Heap
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    Implementation Rating
    Amplitude
    My team members all have background as data analysts, so Amp was pretty easy to for them. There was sufficient online training available. We also used the available support documents. The actual rollout went well. We did significant testing beforehand. We did a phased rollout, with partial silent rollout (part of OCM's plan) for the smallest line of business. THe silent one was "silent" b/c it was done without fanfare or public notices ... it was just a "we're doing some things, it wont impact your work or workday
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    Heap
    The implementation was smooth and easy. The Heap team helped us with implementation and it went great! Within a few weeks, we were fully up and running and utilizing the platform to its full capability. This is an additional thing that has made this platform so great and we couldn't recommend it enough.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Amplitude
    Amplitude Analytics provides much more granular data than Google Analytics and gives you much more flexibility in how you can segment and splice the data. It also provides the ability to create closed funnels, which I have yet to find out how to do in Google Analytics. Amplitude has a very similar interface to Mixpanel, with a few handy additions, like the ability to name and categorize your events.
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    Heap
    Heap offers a ton of functionality on a single platform.It also has an smart data science layer to offers suggestions for next steps in the analysis, allowing us to explore alternative paths we may not think to take. The low-code option for updating data is appealing, and there is a lot of automation with minimal engineering effort.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Amplitude
    It is a good product. You have to pay for quality ... kinda like buying a Lexus or a Toyota instead of a Buick or a Chevy
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    Heap
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    Amplitude
    Like all the other grades, it was mostly an easy implementation ... we have experience people, the rollout in general is well planned, and the vendor was very supportive
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    Heap
    The most challenging part of using Heap in a growing organization is the naming and structure in which reports and dashboards are organized. I work within the marketing department and our Heap leader internally works within the IT/Product department, which makes it challenging because we often don't speak the same language, so the learning curve has been steep without any specific use-case examples to leverage online.
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    Return on Investment
    Amplitude
    • It collects data of great importance which allows to make product improvements.
    • It easily identifies problems a user may have with the product.
    • The flow of users who have used the product has improved, thus being able to generate more income thanks to the improvements and new functions.
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    Heap
    • It has helped us make decisions on what products to scope for our MVP based on the usage data.
    • It's allowed us to measure success with our beta product.
    • It's helped us view our conversion rates in an easy and usable manner.
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    ScreenShots

    Heap Screenshots

    Screenshot of Dashboard in Heap (Use to get Product or User Behavior Insights)Screenshot of Effort Analysis provides the first-ever quantitative measurement of user friction, capturing the difficulty users face when moving through every step of every user flow across the digital experience.Screenshot of Heap Illuminate looks for the most common events between two steps in a funnel and generates a Top Events table that displays how well paths including different events convert to the next step so you can understand how that behavior is helping or hurting conversion.Screenshot of From Top Events you can choose an event and use Path Comparison to fork your funnel and see how the selected behavior impacts conversion downstream.