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Amplitude vs Chartbeat: What are the differences?
What is Amplitude? User analytics to fuel explosive user growth. Amplitude provides scalable mobile analytics that helps companies leverage data to create explosive user growth. Anyone in the company can use Amplitude to pinpoint the most valuable behavioral patterns within hours.
What is Chartbeat? Real-time site data for front-line action takers. Chartbeat provides realtime analytics to Websites and blogs, and shows visitors, load times, and referring sites on a minute-by-minute basis.
Amplitude belongs to "Mobile Analytics" category of the tech stack, while Chartbeat can be primarily classified under "Realtime Analytics".
Some of the features offered by Amplitude are:
- Real-time user analytics, including funnels, retention, flexible user segmentation, and revenue analysis.
- Microscope: Explore the user behavior behind any data point. Compare the behavior of engaged vs. churned users.
- Growth Discovery Engine: Identify behaviors that are predictive of retention or conversion and drive explosive user growth.
On the other hand, Chartbeat provides the following key features:
- Historical Engagement Series
- Historical Engagement Stats
- Historical Social Series
Starbucks, Foursquare, and Kickstarter are some of the popular companies that use Chartbeat, whereas Amplitude is used by StackShare, Coursera, and Rainist. Chartbeat has a broader approval, being mentioned in 215 company stacks & 3 developers stacks; compared to Amplitude, which is listed in 111 company stacks and 19 developer stacks.
Pros of Amplitude
- Great for product managers9
- Easy setup7
- Efficient analysis6
- Free for up to 10M user actions per month2
- Event streams for individual users2
- Chart edits get their own URLs2
- Engagement Matrix is super helpful1
- Fast1
- Behavioral cohorts1
- Great UI1
Pros of Chartbeat
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Cons of Amplitude
- Super expensive once you're past the free plan4