Tealeaf by Acoustic
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What is Tealeaf by Acoustic
Tealeaf by Acoustic is a digital experience analytics platform focused on capturing and replaying web and mobile sessions to diagnose user friction, errors, and drop-offs. It is used by digital product, analytics, and CX teams to investigate issues that impact conversion and customer experience, often in regulated or high-traffic environments. The product emphasizes server-side capture, detailed event/error context, and integration into broader customer experience workflows rather than lightweight, tag-only behavioral analytics.
Deep session-level diagnostics
Tealeaf captures detailed session data and supports replay to help teams understand what happened before a user encountered friction or abandonment. It is commonly used for troubleshooting complex journeys such as checkout, authentication, and account servicing. The tooling supports investigation workflows that connect user actions with technical signals (for example, errors and performance issues) to speed root-cause analysis.
Enterprise-grade capture options
The platform supports capture approaches that can work beyond simple client-side tagging, which can be important for complex sites and apps. This can improve coverage for edge cases where front-end instrumentation is incomplete or blocked. It also fits organizations that need consistent data capture across multiple properties and teams.
Journey and struggle analysis
Tealeaf includes analytics views designed to identify where users struggle across multi-step journeys, not only within single-page interactions. Teams can use these insights to prioritize fixes and validate whether changes reduce friction. This aligns well with conversion optimization and digital CX programs that require evidence from real user sessions.
Heavier implementation footprint
Compared with lighter-weight tools in this category, Tealeaf deployments can require more planning, technical involvement, and governance. Instrumentation, capture configuration, and data management often involve multiple stakeholders. This can lengthen time-to-value for smaller teams or simple use cases.
Complexity for casual users
The depth of session data and investigative features can create a learning curve for non-technical users. Organizations may need enablement and defined workflows to ensure consistent analysis and tagging practices. Without this, teams can struggle to operationalize insights into repeatable optimization cycles.
Cost and scaling considerations
Session replay and high-fidelity capture can generate significant data volumes, which can affect licensing and operational costs. Retention policies, sampling, and privacy controls may need careful tuning to balance coverage with expense. This can be a constraint for teams that want broad, always-on replay across all traffic.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Entitlement-based subscription with usage add-ons Included entitlements (from official service description):
- 1 million screenviews per month (base entitlement included in the monthly entitlement fee).
- Up to 10 Application Profiles included.
- Unlimited Authorized Users (subject to possible concurrent limits).
- Data retention included: 12 months rolling Reporting Data and 1 week rolling Capture Data.
- Heatmaps: up to 250 snapshots included.
Add-ons / Usage-based charges (official site):
- Additional screenviews may be purchased in increments of 1 million screenviews per month.
- Tealeaf Reporting Data Retention Extension (adds up to 12 months to Reporting Data retention, max 24 months).
- Tealeaf Capture Data Retention Extension (purchase additional weeks for Capture Data retention tied to purchased screenviews).
- Tealeaf Network Capture Add-On (includes 1 week rolling Network Capture Data and requires on-prem/cloud forwarding infrastructure).
- Tealeaf Data Export Add-On (export sessions; purchasable in increments of 1 million screenviews per month up to the total entitled screenviews).
Professional services / implementation charges (official site):
- Tealeaf New Customer Onboarding engagement is required with an initial subscription (one-time professional services engagement).
- Optional/recurring professional services: Session Capture Tuning, Health Check, Annual Success Plan, Managed Services etc.
Other pricing-related terms (official site):
- Overages: If actual usage exceeds the entitlement specified in the Order, Customer will be charged in arrears for overages as specified in the Order.
- SLA credits reference the monthly entitlement fee (entitlement fee = contracted monthly price).
Notes:
- The official service description (Acoustic Tealeaf Service Description, dated Feb 2, 2024) states: “The applicable Order provides pricing and additional details.” No public dollar amounts or standard plan price tiers are published on the Acoustic product pages or service description PDF.
Seller details
Acoustic, L.P.
Dallas, TX, USA
2019
Private
https://acoustic.com/
https://x.com/acoustic
https://www.linkedin.com/company/acoustic/
