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Comparison

Amplitude vs Pendo

On the evidence we track, Pendo leads this comparison with a composite score of 77/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Amplitude full profile →Pendo full profile →
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Amplitude45
★Pendo77
Score
vioscaleAI score
Amplitude45 / 100medium · 71%
Pendo77 / 100medium · 72%
Pricing
Free tier
Amplitude✓
Pendo✓
Model
Amplitudefreemium
Pendofreemium
Price level
Amplitudelow
Pendolow
Transparent
Amplitude✗
Pendo✓
Integrations
Count
Amplitude7
Pendo85
Security
Certifications
Disclosure policy
Amplitude✓
Pendo✓
Gdpr
Amplitude✓
Pendo✓
Hipaa
Amplitude✓
Pendo✓
Iso27001
Amplitude–
Pendo✓
Pci
Amplitude–
Pendo✓
Soc2
Amplitude–
Pendo✓
Trust center
Reliability
Status page
Amplitude✓
Pendo✓
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
Amplitude6 items
Pendo6 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for product analytics software. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Analytics scope
AmplitudeProduct analytics
PendoProduct analytics
Capture
Autocapture (no-code event capture)
Amplitude✓
Pendo✓
Analyses
Funnels
Amplitude✓
Pendo-
Retention / cohort analysis
Amplitude✓
Pendo-
Paths / user journeys
Amplitude✓
Pendo✓
Session replay
Amplitude✓
Pendo✓
Experimentation
A/B testing & experimentation
Amplitude✓
Pendo-
Feature flags built-in
Amplitude✓
Pendo-
Data
Warehouse-native / BYODB
Amplitude✓
Pendo-
Deployment
Self-hostable / OSS core
Amplitude-
Pendo✗
Pricing
Free tier
Amplitude✓
Pendo✓
Compliance
EU data residency option
Amplitude✗
Pendo-
SDKs
Server-side + mobile SDK coverage
Amplitude✓
Pendo✓

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Amplitude

A product analytics platform that helps product teams investigate user behavior, track key metrics like retention and funnels, and make data-driven decisions. It emphasizes privacy-by-design with built-in compliance controls for GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA, and includes an AI assistant that can pull context from your other tools.

Independently observed

Pendo

Leader

A platform that tracks user behavior across web, mobile, and AI applications, providing analytics, guided in-app experiences, and user journey analysis to improve feature adoption and reduce time-to-value.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Amplitude

Usage-basedFree tier

Free: 2M events/month forever. Plus: 2M free + usage-based. Growth/Enterprise: Contact sales for custom pricing.

  • FreeFree
    • AI Agents and MCP
    • Basic Product Analytics
    • Cohort syncs (one-time)
    • 2000 AI feedback records/month
    • 10K monthly session replays
    • +7 more
  • PlusPlus: 2M free + usage-based, up to 70M events/month
    • First 2M events/month free
    • Custom events and formulas
    • Scale up to 70M events/month
    • 20 Behavioral cohorts
    • Alerts
    • +3 more
  • GrowthContact sales
    • Advanced Behavioral Exploration
    • Currency conversion
    • Monitoring and Alerts
    • 20K monthly session replays
    • 2500 active AI Visibility prompts
    • +1 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
as of verify ↗

Pendo

Leader
Usage-basedFree tier30-day trial

Free tier (up to 500 MAUs). Usage-based pricing per monthly active user with volume discounts built in. Custom pricing for enterprise.

  • Pendo FreeFree
    • Product analytics
    • In-app guides
    • Pendo-branded roadmaps
    • Pendo-branded NPS surveys
  • Product Analytics CoreContact sales
  • Session ReplayContact sales
  • NovusFree
    • Continuous product monitoring
    • Proactive recommendations in Slack
    • Auto-instrumentation via GitHub
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Amplitude✓
Pendo✓
iOS
Amplitude✓
Pendo✗
Android
Amplitude✓
Pendo✗
CLI
Amplitude✓
Pendo✗
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Amplitude✓
Pendo✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (5)
  • Snowflake
  • HubSpot
  • Jira
  • Confluence
  • Slack

Amplitude

18 total - 13 not shared
  • Hightouch
  • Google BigQuery
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Databricks
  • Postgres
  • Claude
  • Cursor
  • Google Ads
  • Facebook Ads
  • Linear
  • Notion
  • GitHub
  • Atlassian
Independently observed

Pendo

Leader
51 total - 46 not shared
  • Algolia
  • Amazon S3
  • BigQuery
  • Breadcrumbs
  • Calendly
  • Candu
  • Catalyst
  • ChurnZero
  • Crowdin
  • DataGrail
  • Dataworkz
  • Domo
  • Drift
  • Figma
  • Fivetran
  • Fulcrum
  • G2
  • Gainsight
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • Help Scout
  • HelpDocs
  • Integrately
  • Intercom
  • Looker
  • +22 more
Independently observed
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