Amplitude vs Jetpack Stats

Amplitude is a product analytics service with event tracking, conversion funnels, session recordings, and ecommerce tracking. It also provides API access and extended data retention. The platform is listed as API-based. Its Free plan costs nothing and includes up to 2M events per month, 10,000 monthly session replays, and 2,000 AI feedback records; it is billed free forever and requires no credit card. Plus is listed at free, with the first 2M events per month free and a credit card required. It supports up to 70M events, 20 behavioral cohorts, and two-year data retention. Amplitude, the maker, was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Jetpack Stats provides a dashboard for understanding website audiences, traffic, and content performance. It reports real-time visitors, likes, comments, referrers, visitor countries, link clicks, video plays, and file downloads. Content views include top posts and pages, author performance, publishing trends, 7-day Highlights, and Year in Review. Stats can also show subscriber counts and social follower totals, surface WooCommerce orders and product trends, and monitor Jetpack Ads earnings. The free Jetpack mobile app supports monitoring on iOS and Android, while the product is also listed for web and API use. Jetpack says Stats can be used alongside Google Analytics on the same WordPress installation, and that data can be downloaded as CSV. Data retention is unlimited. The pricing model is freemium, with a free plan; the listed Free plan costs nothing. Free Stats is described as for personal sites, while paid Stats starts at 10,000 monthly site views. Jetpack is among Automattic’s products; Jetpack has operated since 2005, and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, USA.