# Alternatives to OpenPanel OpenPanel is an open-source product and web analytics platform positioned explicitly as "the open-source alternative to Mixpanel." It offers event tracking, funnels, retention, cohorts, and user profiles, and can be self-hosted via Docker or run as a paid cloud service. OpenPanel ranks #3 of 11 in Product analytics, with an Alt Score of 89. It is licensed under AGPL-3.0, open source with paid hosting from $2.50/mo and available on Web, iOS and Android. 12 of 12 checklist rows are verified against a public source. Source: https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/openpanel/ Category: Product analytics ## Where OpenPanel stands out - **Self-hostable** — 3 of 11 apps with a verified answer have this ## Overview - **Who it's for**: OpenPanel is aimed at developers and product teams who want Mixpanel-style product analytics (events, funnels, retention, session replay) but want control over hosting and data, either by self-hosting the open-source stack or using the managed cloud. - **What you get**: The product covers event tracking, funnels, cohort-based retention analysis with segment breakdowns, a Sankey-style user journey view, session replay (built on rrweb, 30-day retention), revenue tracking, dashboards, and a REST API for exporting raw events and aggregated chart data. SDKs are available for web frameworks (JavaScript, React, Next.js, Vue, Nuxt, Astro, Remix), iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin), and React Native. - **How it works**: Client and server SDKs (or a script tag) send events to OpenPanel's API, which assigns a rotating, hashed device ID for cookieless tracking and groups events into 30-minute sessions for browser/mobile clients. Data is stored in ClickHouse (with Postgres and Redis supporting the app) and surfaced through a Next.js dashboard; the same stack can be self-hosted via Docker Compose or used as OpenPanel's hosted cloud service, which is billed by monthly event volume. ## Profile - **License**: AGPL-3.0 (verified 2026-07-30) - **Pricing model**: OSS + paid hosting (verified 2026-07-30) - **Starts at**: $2.50/mo (verified 2026-07-30) - **Platforms**: Web, iOS, Android - **Status**: active (verified 2026-07-30) ## Ranked alternatives | # | App | Alt Score | Licence | Platforms | |---|-----|-----------|---------|-----------| | 1 | [Statsig](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/statsig.md) | 96 | Proprietary | Web | | 2 | [Amplitude](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/amplitude.md) | 93 | Proprietary | Web | | 3 | [FullStory](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/fullstory.md) | 85 | Proprietary | Web, iOS, Android | | 4 | [Countly](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/countly.md) | 81 | AGPL-3.0, modified §7 (branding clause) — Countly Lite only | Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS | | 5 | [LogRocket](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/logrocket.md) | 81 | Proprietary | Web | | 6 | [Pendo](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/pendo.md) | 81 | Proprietary | Web | | 7 | [Heap](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/heap.md) | 78 | Proprietary | Web | | 8 | [Gainsight PX](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/gainsight-px.md) | 74 | ? | Web, iOS, Android | | 9 | [Kissmetrics](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/kissmetrics.md) | 70 | ? | Web, iOS, Android | | 10 | [Woopra](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/woopra.md) | 66 | Proprietary | Web | Alt Score = Verified coverage (90%) + Visibility (10%). See https://altcatalog.com/how-alt-score-works/ ## Feature comparison Legend: Yes / No / Partial / ? (not verified). | Product analytics checklist | OpenPanel | Statsig | Amplitude | FullStory | Countly | LogRocket | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Pricing model | OSS + paid hosting | Usage-based | Freemium | Freemium | OSS + paid hosting | Usage-based | | Starts at | $2.50/mo | $150/mo | ? | ? | $175/mo | $176/mo | | License | AGPL-3.0 | Proprietary | Proprietary | Proprietary | AGPL-3.0, modified §7 (branding clause) — Countly Lite only | Proprietary | | Platforms | Web, iOS, Android | Web | Web | Web, iOS, Android | Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Web | Web | | Event tracking | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Funnels | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Retention analysis | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | User paths / flows | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Cohorts & segmentation | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Session replay | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | | Feature flags / experiments | Partial | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | | Self-hostable | Yes | Partial | No | No | Yes | Yes | | Autocapture | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | | Warehouse / BI export | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Partial | Partial | | Web & mobile SDKs | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Free tier | Partial | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | ## Sources Sources for OpenPanel. Each alternative is sourced on its own page. - **Starts at**: $2.50/mo — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Cheapest OpenPanel Cloud tier per the full pricing table: '5K events per month' billed monthly at $2.50 ($25.00/yr). Self-hosting is free/unlimited if you run your own infrastructure. Quote captured f - Quote: “$2.50” - **Status**: active — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: GitHub repo (Openpanel-dev/openpanel) shows 6.2k+ stars and a push within the last month as of this research, corroborating active development. - Quote: “We have released the first stable version of OpenPanel v2. This is a big one!” - **License**: AGPL-3.0 — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Read directly from LICENSE.md in the repo root (not a badge). Repo also ships a separate TRADEMARK.md restricting use of the OpenPanel name/logo, which does not affect the code license. - Quote: “GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 19 November 2007” - **Pricing model**: OSS + paid hosting — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Self-hosting (AGPL-3.0, open source) is free with unlimited events; OpenPanel Cloud is the paid hosted option billed by monthly event volume. Page rendered via headless Chrome DOM dump because the pri - Quote: “Our pricing is as simple as it gets, choose how many events you want to track each month, everything else is unlimited, no tiers, no hidden costs.” - **Platforms**: Web, iOS, Android — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: SDK list covers Web/JS frameworks (script tag, Web SDK, JavaScript, Next.js, Nuxt, Astro, Remix, Express, React, Vue), plus native Swift (iOS) and Kotlin (Android), and React Native. No desktop app or - Quote: “OpenPanel provides SDKs for a wide range of platforms and frameworks, making it easy to integrate analytics into your application regardless of your tech stack.” - **Event tracking**: Yes — (verified 2026-07-30) - Quote: “Track product events without Google Analytics. Simple, privacy-first event tracking that powers funnels, retention, and user profiles.” - **Funnels**: Yes — (verified 2026-07-30) - Quote: “Build funnels from your events and see conversion and drop-off at every step. No complex setup, just pick the events and go.” - **Retention analysis**: Yes — (verified 2026-07-30) - Quote: “User retention analytics and cohort analysis that show who comes back. See product stickiness at a glance-no sampling, no guesswork. Built on your events.” - **User paths / flows**: Yes — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Sankey diagram of top entry pages and next-page sequences, up to 10 steps deep. - Quote: “The User Journey (Sankey) diagram at the very bottom visualizes how visitors flow through your site within a session.” - **Cohorts & segmentation**: Yes — (verified 2026-07-30) - Quote: “Filter or segment by plan, source, or custom properties. See which cohorts retain better and why.” - **Session replay**: Yes — (verified 2026-07-30) - Quote: “Session replay captures a structured recording of what users do in your app or website.” - **Feature flags / experiments**: Partial — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: OpenPanel analyzes experiment-variant conversion via event-property breakdowns on the conversion report; it does not provide native feature-flag creation, targeting, or rollout management (no dedicate - Quote: “Split conversion by any property-experiment variant, device, country, or traffic source. Compare lines on the same chart to see which segment converts best.” - **Self-hostable**: Yes — (verified 2026-07-30) - Quote: “OpenPanel can be self-hosted and we have tried to make it as simple as possible.” - **Autocapture**: Yes — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: SDK options also include `trackOutgoingLinks` and `trackAttributes` (auto-tracks elements with a `data-track` attribute), all enabled by default across the web SDKs. - Quote: “`trackScreenViews` - Automatically track screen views (default: `true`)” - **Warehouse / BI export**: Partial — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: A REST Export API exposes raw events and aggregated chart series for pulling data into external BI tools; no native connector/sync to a data warehouse (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake, S3) is documented. - Quote: “GET /export/events | Paginated list of raw events with optional filtering” - **Web & mobile SDKs**: Yes — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: Includes Web/JS (React, Next.js, Vue, Nuxt, Astro, Remix, Express), iOS (Swift), Android (Kotlin), and React Native SDKs. - Quote: “OpenPanel provides SDKs for a wide range of platforms and frameworks, making it easy to integrate analytics into your application regardless of your tech stack.” - **Free tier**: Partial — (verified 2026-07-30) - Note: OpenPanel Cloud has no permanent free tier - only a time-limited 30-day free trial (no credit card required), after which billing starts at $2.50/mo for 5K events. Self-hosting (open source, AGPL-3.0) - Quote: “30-day free trial” --- Ranked by verified data, never by who paid. https://altcatalog.com/trust/