Fullstory vs. Mixpanel

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Fullstory
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Fullstory’s behavioral data platform helps technology leaders make better, more informed decisions by injecting digital behavioral data into their analytics stack. The technology's behavioral data transforms digital visit into actionable insights.N/A
Mixpanel
Score 8.3 out of 10
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Mixpanel helps companies measure what matters, make decisions fast, and build better products through data. With self-serve product analytics solution, teams can analyze how and why people engage, convert, and retain—in real-time, across devices—to improve their user experience. Mixpanel serves over 26,000 companies from different industries around the world, including Expedia, Uber, Ancestry, DocuSign, and Lemonade. Headquartered in San Francisco, Mixpanel has offices in New York,…
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Business
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Growth
$17
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Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsMixpanel uses MTU (Monthly Tracked User) pricing, which is designed to scale with your company. MTUs are roughly equivalent to the number of unique visitors on your product and each user is counted once per month, even if they use multiple devices. If Events based pricing makes more sense for your business, reach out to us and we can work with you!
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Community Pulse
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Fullstory
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Microsoft Clarity - good product, free.
Chose Fullstory
I think other tools are either too heavy or complicated to implement and / or understand. Full story has a super light weight feel to the system and works magically. I implemented Mixpanel once and the entire team struggled with it before replacing it with Full Story after …
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Fullstory is really the best at session recording. They are adding new and more features to become more competitive with other web analytics tools (like Pendo, Heap, and GA). But we ultimately keep them because they make it so easy to actually see how people interact with your …
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FullStory is a unique blend of product analytics + playback sessions.
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Hotjar is better for marketing websites. Doesn't have a native mobile component. Cheaper per session but doesn't have journey mapping.
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I have not selected or evaluated other products.
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Microsoft Clarity is not on the list. This one is not even close though. 4 years ago there was not much competition unless you paid a fortune for the big survey companies. I see there are many more out there now, and may start looking now that the prices are not as affordable …
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It's a good value for money as well and it works well on websites
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Most of the tools we evaluated just didn't have the depth of analysis that we needed. Content Square looked GREAT but it was a much higher price point.
Chose Fullstory
HotJar is built for marketers, whereas FullStory is for product teams, but the tool still stacks up well against HotJar. It has feature parity and is a little more intuitive to use.
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We don't use anything else that is close to what Fullstory does. If anything Intercom would be the closest however we use them together to offer the best support possible.
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FullSory is more advanced and the implementation with other tools makes it very convenient for us.
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FullStory is very easy to use and very comprehensive compared to it's competitors
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Based on the functionality & support we've scoped for FullStory, we have much more in terms of capability and expertise than we've had in the past.
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Heap, Pendo.io and Amplitude Analytics
Mixpanel
Chose Mixpanel
We actually use both. Mixpanel is more customisable for me. Tableau has more fixed data
Chose Mixpanel
Datanomix is an excellent tool, with similar characteristics; however, Mixpanel has been our preference for two main reasons: one, to have customization and to be able to adapt the interface and tools to our use, and two, to be able to count on reports that it automates the …
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We chose it to strengthen internal communication to work more organized and productive. Objective achieved.
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Mixpanel is critical for measuring customer and consumer actions through behavioral messaging by allowing notifications to be sent based on their actions; can be deployed on all major platforms, including mobile; facilitates interactive reports to answer questions about …
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Google Analytics also has a free option and can be utilized in parallel or as a stand-alone system, it will provide most of the features that are required. but lacks live data tracking so Mixpanel is that alternative that anyone can look for. particularly if your project is …
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Mixpanel is a more tailored solution focused on customers and products. Google Analytics behaves more like a generic tool and may require a bit of effort to set up with best practices and actionable data. Mixpanel has a more likable user interface, compared to GA, which can be …
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Mixpanel is much nicer to use and gives a better UX. However, it doesn't offer historical data that wasn't initially defined as to-be-collected, integration with Salesforce, and requires developers to make changes to the code in order to be able to query for some insights. We …
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It’s hard to compare Google Analytics to Mixpanel because Google Analytics doesn’t measure app data, however Google Analytics has a much easier to use platform in my opinion. Google Analytics does not give you as much user data as Mixpanel does though. Mixpanel is definitely …
Chose Mixpanel
Mixpanel was fairly simpler to set up and the pricing metrics were easier for us to keep track of.
Besides that, Mixpanel integrated with many of the other products we were using which made it simpler for us to keep all our data integrated and easy to keep track of. Mixpanel's …
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These two aren't the same but can fulfill some of the funnel optimisation purposes of Mixpanel.
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Mixpanel is way more granular. We do use Google Analytics for top-level trends, but Mixpanel, when properly integrated, shows you the details. Even our marketing team is able to log events, etc. that they care about.
Chose Mixpanel
Mixpanel does what it does very well. We sometimes don't see it as the only tool in the arsenal. When combined with other solutions, we get a more complete picture. It also allows us to validate data across different tools.

While Heap isn't as simple as Mixpanel, its major …
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Mixpanel has a much better UX and the toolset provided by Mixpanel helps us solve our needs in a better way.
Chose Mixpanel
I wasn't directly part of the evaluation for Amplitude but I think we went with Mixpanel because of the price.
Chose Mixpanel
Mixpanel has been my favorite tool I've used thus far because of how simple it is to use. While Google Analytics is quick to setup also, Mixpanel provides a lot more functionality. The reporting and visualization capabilities that are provided out-of-the-box make it a good tool …
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Mixpanel is pretty up to date with many good and useful features. As I mentioned before, the Mixpanel platform provides a pretty good mobile analytics and when our marketing team was looking for the web and mobile analytics tool, detailed and accurate mobile analytics was one …
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We use a few tools at the same time: Moz, Google Analytics and Mixpanel. But mostly we use Mixpanel simply because of the amount of data it provides and also because mobile analysis has more capabilities than Google Analytics' mobile analysis has. Moz and Google Analytics are …
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Mixpanel has a free plan and looks more up to date than Kissmetrics. We use Google Analytics and Mixpanel together. We stopped use Kissmetrics simply because there is not enough time to use 3 analytics platform with so many features and capabilities.
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We use Mixpanel together with Yandex Metrica and Google Analytics, comparing to both YM and GA I'd say Mixpanel has more convenient and featured e-commerce solution. Although, quality of data is better in Google Analytics and Yandez Metrica has plenty of features completely for …
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Mixpanel has pretty powerful mobile users' behavior analytics when comparing to its competitors on a market. Also, Mixpanel offers a lot of capabilities for free, it has an up-to-date, user friendly interface, quick and very professional customer support, reports that you can …
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We use Google Analytics as our primary website analytics platform and Mixpanel as an addition to Google Analytics. We have chosen Mixpanel over Tableau and Moz because Mixpanel offers pretty decent free version that has many features we needed. We are pretty satisfied with …
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We also use Google Analytics to analyze our web and mobile app data. We noticed that although Google Analytics is a great tool with a lot of useful insights, Mixpanel gives us more data about our mobile users. So, I would say that Mixpanel does a better job on a mobile side.
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Mixpanel got lots of praise from trusted colleagues. And they were right. It is powerful, affordable, and easy to use. It integrates with Segment which made it very easy for us to implement multiple metrics tools. It has great visuals and powerful
Features
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Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Fullstory
6.2
Ratings
20% below category average
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Responsive Design for Web Access7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Application7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile App Analytics6.40 Ratings00 Ratings
Results and Analysis
Comparison of Results and Analysis features of Product A and Product B
Fullstory
9.2
Ratings
2% below category average
Mixpanel
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Heatmap tool9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Click analytics9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Scroll maps9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Form fill analysis9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Conversion tracking9.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Goal tracking7.90 Ratings00 Ratings
Funnel Analysis8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Session Recording and Replay10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
User Segmentation10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Renew
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Usability
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Availability
9.0
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Performance
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Support Rating
8.3
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Online Training
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8.0
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Implementation Rating
7.5
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8.9
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Configurability
7.0
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Ease of integration
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Product Scalability
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Vendor post-sale
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
It was extremely useful in identifying places in our product where things weren't functioning, or where it looked like action was available to the end user but in reality, it was not and therefore caused lots of confusion. It doesn't help as much in other scenarios to see what catches a user's Eye or where they go if they leave our application as well as an actual in-person interview would help with eye-tracking software.
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Mixpanel is a versatile platform that integrates features to connect every work team and get the best out of them in productivity and results. Moreover, it will improve the flow of information and interaction between all your company staff; it will unify and help promote collaboration between the different work areas. Without a doubt, I highly recommend this software
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Pros
  • Tracks users' online experiences from start to finish.
  • Makes it easy to share a customer's experiences with the rest of my team.
  • Allows me to use different methods to find evidence of a customer's experience.
  • Shows page insights via segmentation that help me know where to improve my site.
  • Tracks error clicks and dead clicks for quick insights into site improvements.
  • Integrates with HelpScout for easy access to customer problem-solving.
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  • Mixpanel's ease of use is easily their best feature, allowing you to quickly create graphs with a few point and clicks. Their UI is also fairly snappy and well-designed.
  • Tying together events with user attributes allows you to properly segment users into cohorts which can then be tracked individually. Proper segmentation is where most analytics solutions earn their keep.
  • Live view is a nice perk that gives you a good feel for who's on your site and what they're doing at any single point in time. This can be further filtered to focus on particular events of interest.
  • Mixpanel has flexible plans that work for smaller startups as well.
  • Their documentation is top notch.
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Cons
  • Can be a little confusing to know the exact time something happened, in local time or customer time? That's helpful for engineering to look into log files.
  • When looking for a specific session, it would be nice if you have a easier list of sessions with a little more info to choose from
  • It would be nice to be able to save flagged sessions and annotations under my profile to reference later
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  • I didn't use the engagement features at all but it seems like they could have a better WYSIWYG editor for the emails for non-technical people using Mixpanel.
  • The custom reports feature seems to be really powerful but I wish they had more resources/templates for creating custom reports. I don't code so it was really hard for me to use this feature...BUT the reports I was able to get help with, were really powerful.
  • I wanted a dashboard area for all of my reports in one view. It seems like they were implementing this when I was moving jobs. If it's not available yet, they definitely need to add a master dashboard page for arranging saved reports.
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Likelihood to Renew
The metrics are hard to understand at times and inaccurate to the point of being unusable. I stopped pulling them and solely rely on Adobe Analytics for them. So far, I've only used FS to watch sessions and determine behaviors
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It's not an all encompassing solution like Google Analytics tries to be, but MixPanel offers much easier to use and understandable data insights. That's valuable when juggling many responsibilities as startup life demands, so a renewal would be easily justified.
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Usability
Because everything seems to be easy to find and it doesn't take long at all to learn how to use the product
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Relativity easy to use. Once you get the hang of it, very easy to create dashboards for different use cases. I split my dashboards between customers or use cases
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Reliability and Availability
We've never had issues with availability
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Performance
It seems the performance is really good and always loads quickly
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Support Rating
Yes, that is correct. FullStory has a dedicated support team that is available to assist with any issues or questions. The team is known for being responsive, knowledgeable, and helpful, and they are committed to ensuring that users get the most out of the FullStory platform. They helped us a lot to implement it with our web app
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There is no support at all for free-plan users. There used to be a good support but something changed. If everything had gone great we could've considered upgrading but it is so bad that we'll look for an alternative once we finish the current project. Given that the documentation is very poor, there are some aspects in which customer support could have helped a lot, but with no support, we are left with some needs unfulfilled.
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Online Training
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Mixpanel has a great resource about their product, with videos on how to use it and real world examples from other companies on how they integrate Mixpanel into their business processes.
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Implementation Rating
I was not involved in the initial implementation, but I have found it easy to pick up and use without any guidance, so it's very user-friendly, intuitive, and not difficult to get a sense of use, though it may be more difficult to master (I am not a Fullstory master... yet!).
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Mixpanel is a simple JS script installation. For adding events to track, its simply a matter of adding the code where you want it. Their API and documentation are easy to understand and use.
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Alternatives Considered
Fullstory is really the best at session recording. They are adding new and more features to become more competitive with other web analytics tools (like Pendo, Heap, and GA). But we ultimately keep them because they make it so easy to actually see how people interact with your site. It is one thing to see a report that says customers fall off a page, it is another thing to actually be able to watch what they do as they fall off.
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Datanomix is an excellent tool, with similar characteristics; however, Mixpanel has been our preference for two main reasons: one, to have customization and to be able to adapt the interface and tools to our use, and two, to be able to count on reports that it automates the work of sales analysis and being able to evaluate progress.
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Scalability
Full story was easy to scale with the growth of our teams and organisation
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Return on Investment
  • We reduced our payment error rate by 20% using FullStory.
  • Our product design team is able to get initial designs approved 95% of the time using FullStory data in order to explain to our stakeholders the reasoning behind decisions. We also do a before-and-after analysis, and we either net out the same with the new designs (just improved visuals) or improve the metric of whatever was designed. More often than not, we improve the metric.
  • We decreased the time to A/B testing insights by 50%.
  • We can usually visualize a production issue via FullStory within 10 minutes.
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  • User event data has helped us improve our product, which has increased subscriptions.
  • Being able to send helpful messages to some users who drop off after certain events has helped us reduce our churn.
  • We have been able to identify the Monthly super-active users, understand their usage of our product, which we use to conduct focus groups to help us shape the product.
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ScreenShots

Fullstory Screenshots

Screenshot of AI-generated Summaries used to Take Action More QuicklyScreenshot of a Visualization of Behavioral Data with Custom DashboardsScreenshot of Ready-made for AI Behavioral Data Straight to the organization's Data EcosystemScreenshot of Fullstory's Session Replay, Combined with Dev ToolsScreenshot of Mobile App Behavioral Data

Mixpanel Screenshots

Screenshot of Mixpanel's Insights report enables you to see how often users perform meaningful actions, monitor growth of key user cohorts, like power users, and slice and dice trends by any attribute.Screenshot of Mixpanel's powerful Flows report enables you to identify top user paths to see where people get stuck, and discover actions users take before, after, or between key events.Screenshot of Mixpanel's Retention report helps you understand how often users return and visualize feature stickiness. You can also slice and dice retention data to identify user groups that retain best and to find out what causes churn.