Fullstory vs Qualtrics

Fullstory is a behavioral analytics platform for businesses examining customer experiences across websites, web apps, and mobile apps. It brings together session replay, heatmaps, watched elements, tabbed browsing, and developer tools. Analytics features include dashboards, journey maps, conversion funnels, user segments and cohorts, mobile analytics, guides and surveys, and sentiment signals. Fullcapture collects behavior from web and mobile apps into a single stream processed on the server. Mobile replay reconstructs sessions from draw instructions rather than screenshots and supports iOS, Android, Flutter, React Native, and Cordova/Capacitor. Teams can add custom event data through webhooks and JavaScript or HTTP APIs. Privacy controls allow captured elements to be masked or excluded, using either non-technical rules or code-first controls. A new account's 14-day trial includes up to 5,000 sessions, two weeks of replay and analytics retention, and 20 user seats. FullstoryFree lists 30,000 sessions, 10 seats, and one-year replay and analytics retention; its price is not listed. If its monthly session limit is exceeded, existing sessions remain accessible, but new ones stop until the next cycle or an upgrade.

Qualtrics provides survey tools and an experience-management platform called XM Data & AI, which combines experience data with human context to support decisions and outcomes. Its free Qualtrics Surveys account is for one user and allows three active surveys, 30 questions per survey and 500 total responses. It includes skip, display and branch logic. The Strategic Research plan costs $420.00 per month, billed as $5,040 annually, for 1,000 responses shared across users; it also supports unlimited users and surveys, and includes 23 question types. A 30-day Strategic Research trial provides access to most premium features, with some restrictions; without an upgrade, it downgrades to the free account. Paid plans include more than 20 guided research solutions and advanced analysis such as crosstabs, statistical tools and generative-AI video summaries. Surveys support more than 70 languages, while dashboards support 24. Data exports include CSV, TSV, Excel and SPSS, among other formats. Qualtrics offers API access. Its Strategic Research Custom plan is for enterprise organizations needing higher response volumes, with pricing based on interactions and 5,000 or more responses.