FullStory vs Mixpanel

Quote on request

From $24 per month (indicative, Growth by event volume)

Quote-based annual contracts priced by session volume. Among the more expensive tools in the category.

Event-volume pricing with an unusually generous free tier for early products.

Free plan with limited monthly sessions.

Free plan with a large monthly event allowance.

Widely used

FullStory · since 2014

Category standard

Mixpanel · since 2009

• Retroactive analysis is a genuine capability difference, not a marketing angle.
• Excellent search: find the eleven sessions where a specific error occurred in checkout.
• Strong privacy controls with element-level exclusion rules.

• Genuinely self-serve — product managers build their own reports without help.
• Large free tier that carries an early-stage product a long way.
• Fast query performance on large event volumes.

• Expensive, with opaque quote-based pricing.
• Capturing everything raises data-governance questions that need answering up front.
• Meaningful learning curve to use the search language well.

• Requires disciplined event instrumentation and naming.
• Weaker on user-level qualitative investigation than replay tools.
• Costs scale with event volume, which grows faster than user count.

Product and support organisations that need to investigate specific user problems in depth.

Product teams that want fast, self-serve behavioural reporting.