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Amplitude vs mParticle comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Amplitude
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.3
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
Customer Data Analysis (1st), Web Analytics (1st), Mobile Marketing and Advertising (1st), User Activity Monitoring (4th), AI Data Analysis (5th), AI Customer Experience Personalization (4th)
mParticle
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Customer Data Platforms (CDP) (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Amplitude and mParticle aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Amplitude is designed for Customer Data Analysis and holds a mindshare of 10.1%, down 17.9% compared to last year.
mParticle, on the other hand, focuses on Customer Data Platforms (CDP), holds 4.7% mindshare, up 3.0% since last year.
Customer Data Analysis Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amplitude10.1%
IBM Watson Customer Experience Analytics8.9%
Glassbox7.7%
Other73.3%
Customer Data Analysis
Customer Data Platforms (CDP) Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
mParticle4.7%
Segment13.1%
Hightouch6.6%
Other75.6%
Customer Data Platforms (CDP)
 

Featured Reviews

Saurav Bhattacharjee - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Business Analyst at Arcteryx
Empowers teams to build visualization-rich reports and make faster decisions using historical user behavior data
I think areas for Amplitude's improvement include data retention. The maximum data I have worked with, the clickstream data on Amplitude, is two years, whereas we rely on Tableau for historical data of at least two years. I am not sure whether it was my organization paying for lower retention or not, but having historical data would take away the reliance on Tableau. Secondly, reconciling clickstream data with Databricks or other AWS systems could help analysts spend less time verifying the accuracy of both sources, which would be really helpful. Lastly, a more focused approach on error logs is necessary. I have found that, at least with Intuit, we used Splunk more for error logs than Amplitude. Although Amplitude had the capability, developers seemed to prefer Splunk, so if that could be improved, it would be good.
Mayank Gambhir - PeerSpot reviewer
Customer Success Manager at a real estate/law firm with 501-1,000 employees
Unified user data has powered accurate journeys and reduces data firefighting for complex campaigns
Identity resolution plus the data governance together make the biggest difference for my clients. If I have to pick one, identity resolution, and immediately tie to it governance, then it makes the most sense. Why this matters the most in fintech is that fintech majorly deals with the log out, logged in journeys, phone number, email ID, customer ID, device ID, KYC, compliance, risk flags, cross-device usage for web and application. Without strong identity resolution, the same user would appear multiple times, and users would get wrong messages. Compliance risk increases, and life cycle journeys would break. This is a daily pain for them. Before mParticle, there wasn't much of a real impact. But after mParticle, we have one unified user profile with the correct life cycle stage for pre-KYC, KYC done, funded, and they are in the transacting mode right now. Reliable segmentation in MoEngage would be the third benefit. For us, there would be fewer daily escalations regarding the data. There is a steep learning curve for non-technical teams. The pain point here is that mParticle is very powerful but not a very marketer-friendly tool right now. Marketing teams would still rely heavily on the data teams and engineers for changing or explanations. Since clients sometimes feel that mParticle requires strong technical support, especially for marketing teams trying to understand data behavior, I'm not saying it's bad. I'm just saying that it's technical by design. Another point would be limited self-serve visibility for marketers again. The marketers would want easier previews of what data will reach MoEngage. I'm specifically talking in terms of integration with MoEngage because that is where I have put all my work for the past few years. Clients often want more self-serve visibility into the downstream data impact without needing to involve data teams. Documentation is actually very strong, and it's not very technical, which is what clients liked. It's very detailed and accurate documentation. It majorly has clear coverage of SDKs, event structures, and identity concepts. It's very reliable when the engineering teams use it. It's very thorough and technically solid. Where it could improve is that it's very dense, again technical, and it's hard for marketers and operations teams to consume. The biggest point would be that there are very few business context examples. Clients sometimes struggle because the documentation is very technical and could benefit from more business-oriented examples and use case-driven guides.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Other areas like cohort analysis, defining key events, and user properties were also well-suited for Amplitude. It is an easy tool to use."
"Amplitude has provided a return on investment, helping us improve campaign targeting and raising personalization accuracy by almost twenty-five percent, while saving us a lot of time since I can see the analysis as quickly as possible in the dashboard, resulting in significant time and money saved."
"Amplitude has impacted my organization positively in a huge way, as everyone uses it to gain insights into user behavior before implementing new features, which leads to massive positive change, data-driven development, lots of learning, and encouragement to use Amplitude in daily work for everyone in the company, not just analysts."
"Amplitude impacts my organization positively as it serves as a central point that allows everyone within the organization to speak the same language of data."
"Having accessible data which can be easily customized and manipulated by even business stakeholders with less technical knowledge is one of the best things."
"We can create charts and bar charts for visualization purposes and check real-time data with the solution."
"Amplitude has provided almost instant value to our dev team when they are deploying new trackable events and seeing how those events line up before they go out to production."
"Amplitude has positively impacted my organization as it allows us to make decisions based on data and iterate faster."
"mParticle is good, and we are pleased to have it on our side."
"mParticle helps to target audiences accurately based on what we have triggered, and it is very useful for triggering audiences."
"mParticle significantly reduces the data relation friction for both my clients and me; for clients, it ensures clean, unified, and compliant data reaches MoEngage, and for me, as a CSM for them, it reduces firefighting, makes campaign behavior more predictable, and allows me to focus more on strategy and outcomes rather than debugging all the problems for them."
"mParticle has had a very positive impact on my organization by centralizing event collection and enforcing data governance."
"In summary, mParticle improved outcomes by making MoEngage campaigns more accurate, helped us trigger more reliably, and made teams faster and more confident by creating trust in the data."
 

Cons

"Amplitude is almost perfect, but there are some charts I cannot create due to the large data structure."
"Amplitude could be improved by being cheaper."
"Regarding how Amplitude can be improved, I think that dashboards and charts are ephemeral; people often create dashboards but rarely revisit them, so while a handful of dashboards might survive, the real value lies in the insight derived from them."
"We have seen tagging issues with Amplitude in rare scenarios, which can be improved."
"The visualization of the properties can also be enhanced. Basically, the visualization could be better, and the real-time analytics can be enhanced."
"I give it a nine because it is close to a perfect ten for me, but it is only useful in one layer of the project, not the other, which the tool is supposed to do."
"The free features in Amplitude Analytics need enhancement."
"I think areas for Amplitude's improvement include data retention. The maximum data I have worked with, the clickstream data on Amplitude, is two years, whereas we rely on Tableau for historical data of at least two years."
"mParticle's biggest opportunity is improving time to value and business visibility for non-technical teams."
"There is a steep learning curve for non-technical teams."
"mParticle can be improved as it is somewhat complicated for non-technical users, though it is totally easy to use for technical users."
"mParticle can be improved in showing the event counts; currently, it only displays counts by hour, and I would find it beneficial to add a feature that indicates the exact minute the event is received."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Pricing is a little on the higher end, especially when considering scalability."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Insurance Company
12%
Construction Company
10%
Computer Software Company
9%
Outsourcing Company
6%
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Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Large Enterprise9
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business1
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise3
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amplitude?
I loved using Amplitude because it allowed me to dive deep into product usage and analyze different customer segments.
What needs improvement with Amplitude?
Amplitude can be improved by allowing more than a two-year look back window for most analyses. Usually, all they offer is that two-year look back window, and longer form time series analysis seems ...
What is your primary use case for Amplitude?
Amplitude is our main product insights system, and it allows us to view the activity on our website and quantify certain KPIs about how users interact with the site. We measure things such as month...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for mParticle?
I was not part of the team that dealt with pricing, setup cost, and licensing. Another team handled that, and I was not part of that team. I only used mParticle for audience triggering.
What needs improvement with mParticle?
mParticle can be improved as it is somewhat complicated for non-technical users, though it is totally easy to use for technical users. Data plans, identity rules, and routing logic can be complex f...
What is your primary use case for mParticle?
I use mParticle for centralized data collection and governance to collect events and send this to analytics and marketing platforms, creating a single place that significantly reduces data inconsis...
 

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Sample Customers

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