Amplitude vs Heap
Amplitude
Enterprise product analytics built around behavioral cohorts, funnels, and retention, with experimentation and session replay sold on the same taxonomy.
Full directory entry →Heap
An autocapture product analytics platform, now part of Contentsquare, that records every interaction so events can be defined retroactively.
Full directory entry →Facts, side by side
| Amplitude | Heap | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | freemium | freemium |
| Pricing notes | Free plan includes 2M events/month with no time limit; self-serve Plus is event-based (first 2M free, scales to 70M events); Growth and Enterprise are custom event-based pricing via sales, with add-on packages priced as a percentage of the platform plan. | Free plan up to 10k monthly sessions with 6 months history; Growth, Pro, and Premier are quote-based, priced by session volume. Warehouse sync ships on the Premier tier; session replay is a Pro add-on. Exceeding the session cap blocks data viewing until you upgrade. |
| Open source | No | No |
| Self-hostable | No | No |
| Categories | Product analytics, Experimentation, Session replay | Analytics, Product analytics |
| Who it's for | measurement managers, marketing managers, implementation engineers | measurement managers, marketing managers |
| Integrations listed | 8 | 3 |
Directory entries last updated: Amplitude 2026-07-18 · Heap 2026-07-18.
In brief
Amplitude — Enterprise product analytics built around behavioral cohorts, funnels, and retention, with experimentation and session replay sold on the same taxonomy. Pricing: freemium. Free plan includes 2M events/month with no time limit; self-serve Plus is event-based (first 2M free, scales to 70M events); Growth and Enterprise are custom event-based pricing via sales, with add-on packages priced as a percentage of the platform plan. Self-hosting: No. Listed integrations: segment, rudderstack, mparticle, bigquery, snowflake, hightouch, census, google-tag-manager.
Heap — An autocapture product analytics platform, now part of Contentsquare, that records every interaction so events can be defined retroactively. Pricing: freemium. Free plan up to 10k monthly sessions with 6 months history; Growth, Pro, and Premier are quote-based, priced by session volume. Warehouse sync ships on the Premier tier; session replay is a Pro add-on. Exceeding the session cap blocks data viewing until you upgrade. Self-hosting: No. Listed integrations: segment, snowflake, bigquery.
Which one, when
Derived mechanically from the structured facts above — deltas only, not an editorial verdict. Where the facts tie, read both entries.
- you also need Experimentation, Session replay — not a listed category for Heap
- its entry lists implementation engineers in "who it's for"; Heap's does not
- you also need Analytics — not a listed category for Amplitude
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