Microsoft Clarity is free session replay and heatmaps. It sets cookies, including Microsoft’s MUID advertising cookie, and since 31 October 2025 it needs a consent signal for visits from the EEA, the UK and Switzerland. misomoon sets no cookies and has click maps, funnels, revenue and Web Vitals in data you own.
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misomoon’s Light preset is 1.9 KB gzipped. Clarity’s tracker measured 26 KB.8
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_clck and _clsk, and third-party CLID, ANONCHK, MR, MUID and SM2Consent in Europe
Each fact about Clarity links to the page it came from, with the day we read it.
| Feature | misomoon | Clarity | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Cloud from $5 a month for 100k events on 1 site, or $14 for 1M on unlimited sites. 7 days free. Free to self-host | Free1 | Clarity |
| Cookies | None | First-party _clck and _clsk, and third-party CLID, ANONCHK, MR, MUID and SM2 | misomoon |
| Consent in Europe | No cookies, nothing stored on the device | A consent signal, required since 31 October 20253 | misomoon |
| Session replay | No | Yes1 | Clarity |
| Heatmaps | Click maps and scroll depth | Click, scroll, area, conversion and attention maps4 | Clarity |
| Funnels | Yes | Yes5 | Even |
| Data retention | Cloud: 2 years on Starter, 3 years on Growth and Scale. Self-hosted: no limit | Recordings 30 days, heatmaps 9 months6 | misomoon |
| Where your data lives | Your Cloudflare account, or misomoon Cloud in the EU, the US or Asia-Pacific | Microsoft Azure1 | Even |
| Official MCP server | Built in | Yes, 10 requests a day over the last 3 days7 | misomoon |
| Tracker, gzipped | 1.0 KB core, 1.9 KB Light, 4.8 KB with every feature | 26 KB (clarity.js 0.8.73)8 | misomoon |
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Turn on click maps and form analytics for the site in misomoon, next to Clarity.
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If you kept a consent banner only for Clarity, check whether you still need one. This is not legal advice.
For click maps, scroll depth and form drop-off, yes. For recordings of each visit, no: misomoon doesn’t record sessions.
misomoon sets no cookies, the usual reason for a banner, and stores nothing on the device unless a visitor opts out of being counted. Whether you need one depends on your country and the rest of your site.
Yes. Many sites keep a recorder for design reviews and use misomoon for traffic, goals and revenue.
misomoon’s own facts are in its docs, and its prices on the pricing page. Its plans count events: pageviews and custom events together. Prices and features change: follow the links to confirm.
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