# Comparisons (/docs/comparisons)





## How Ucoder Insights Compares [#how-ucoder-insights-compares]

Every analytics tool makes tradeoffs between depth, privacy, and how much setup it needs. Here's where Ucoder Insights stands next to the tools you're probably already looking at.

### Core Analytics [#core-analytics]

| Feature               | **Ucoder Insights** | Google Analytics |   Mixpanel  |     Hotjar    |     Sentry     |  Plausible  |
| --------------------- | :-----------------: | :--------------: | :---------: | :-----------: | :------------: | :---------: |
| Analytics type        |     Event-based     |  Pageview-based  | Event-based | Session-based | Error tracking | Event-based |
| Page analytics        |         Yes         |        Yes       |     Yes     |    Partial    |       No       |     Yes     |
| Geo analytics         |         Yes         |        Yes       |     Yes     |    Partial    |       No       |     Yes     |
| Referrer analytics    |         Yes         |        Yes       |     Yes     |       No      |       No       |     Yes     |
| Real-time tracking    |     No, planned     |        Yes       |     Yes     |       No      |       No       |     Yes     |
| Custom event tracking |         Yes         |        Yes       |     Yes     |       No      |       No       |     Yes     |

### Interaction & Behavior [#interaction--behavior]

| Feature                    | **Ucoder Insights** | Google Analytics | Mixpanel | Hotjar | Sentry | Plausible |
| -------------------------- | :-----------------: | :--------------: | :------: | :----: | :----: | :-------: |
| Click tracking             |         Yes         |      Partial     |    Yes   |   Yes  |   No   |    Yes    |
| Rage & dead click tracking |         Yes         |        No        |    No    |   Yes  |   No   |     No    |
| Session replay             |          No         |        No        |    Yes   |   Yes  |   Yes  |     No    |

### Error & Debugging [#error--debugging]

| Feature              | **Ucoder Insights** | Google Analytics | Mixpanel | Hotjar | Sentry | Plausible |
| -------------------- | :-----------------: | :--------------: | :------: | :----: | :----: | :-------: |
| JS error tracking    |         Yes         |        No        |    No    |   No   |   Yes  |     No    |
| Error management     |         Yes         |        No        |    No    |   No   |   Yes  |     No    |
| Regression detection |         Yes         |        No        |    No    |   No   |   Yes  |     No    |

### Privacy, Data & Openness [#privacy-data--openness]

| Feature                 | **Ucoder Insights** | Google Analytics | Mixpanel |  Hotjar  |   Sentry  | Plausible |
| ----------------------- | :-----------------: | :--------------: | :------: | :------: | :-------: | :-------: |
| Privacy focus           |         High        |        Low       |  Medium  |  Medium  |   Medium  |    High   |
| Cookieless              |         Yes         |        No        |    No    |    No    |     No    |    Yes    |
| Delete raw data anytime |         Yes         |        No        |    No    |    No    |     No    |    Yes    |
| Open source             |         Yes         |        No        |    No    |    No    | Partial\* |    Yes    |
| Setup effort            |       Minimal       |     Moderate     | Moderate | Moderate |  Moderate |  Minimal  |
| Pricing                 |     Free & Paid     |       Free       |   Paid   |   Paid   |    Paid   |    Paid   |

<Callout type="info">
  Comparison based on publicly available docs and pricing pages at the time of
  writing. Things change fast, so double-check on the vendor's site if a
  specific feature matters a lot to you. \*Sentry's core is source-available
  under the Business Source License, not a fully permissive open-source license.
</Callout>

## Where we're strong [#where-were-strong]

Ucoder Insights combines page and referrer analytics (the Plausible playbook), interaction signals like rage and dead clicks (the Hotjar playbook), and JS error tracking with regression detection (the Sentry playbook) — in one place, without cookies, and with the option to wipe your raw data whenever you want. The event model itself takes a lot of cues from Mixpanel.

A few things worth calling out specifically:

* **One tool, three jobs.** You'd otherwise need Plausible + Hotjar + Sentry running side by side to get this same coverage.
* **Zero cookie banners.** No consent popups to build or maintain, since nothing here relies on cookies.
* **You own your data.** Raw data can be deleted on demand — most competitors don't give you that control.
* **Built for developers.** Setup is a single script tag, no complex event taxonomy to design upfront.

## Where we're not there yet [#where-were-not-there-yet]

No real-time tracking or session replay, at least not yet. Google Analytics, Mixpanel, and Plausible all offer real-time tracking, and Mixpanel, Hotjar, and Sentry all now ship session replay. Both are on our roadmap, but if either is a hard requirement for you today, one of those tools may be a better fit in the meantime.

<Callout type="warn">
  We're not trying to be a smaller Google Analytics. It's a tool for people who
  want a few sharp features that respect user privacy, instead of one dashboard
  that does everything.
</Callout>

## Who it's for [#who-its-for]

<Cards>
  <Card title="Solo devs & indie hackers" description="Minimal setup, no cookie banner, and error tracking built in — one tool instead of three." />

  <Card title="Privacy-first teams" description="Cookieless, and raw data can be deleted anytime for compliance peace of mind." />

  <Card title="Small to mid-sized businesses" description="Get the analytics depth you need without paying for enterprise complexity." />
</Cards>

<Callout type="info" title="Early days">
  Ucoder Insights is in its early stages. The core is solid, but the feature set
  is still growing — real-time tracking, session replay, and a few other things
  on this page are actively on the roadmap. If something here is a dealbreaker
  for you today, feel free to reach out and tell us; it helps us prioritize what
  to build next.
</Callout>

## Want to help shape it? [#want-to-help-shape-it]

Ucoder Insights is open source. If there's a feature missing from this comparison that you'd want to see, contributions and feature requests are welcome on [GitHub](https://github.com/soumydip/ucoder_insight_core).