Analytics and monitoring

Analyse alternatives

2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.

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The projects

matomo-org/matomo21,750GPL-3.0Full-featured, self-hosted web and app analytics platform with funnels, cohorts, and reporting UI.Open on GitHub PostHog/posthog37,590licence unclearProduct analytics suite with event ingestion, funnels, cohorts, session replay, and extensible plugins.Open on GitHub

What you give up either way

Polished, integrated AI+analytics UX and product polish
Built-in rank-tracking, alerting, and multi-site scaling that the SaaS includes
Proprietary training data, curated SEO prompts, and any internal MCP server optimizations
Priority support, SLAs, and team-oriented features (SSO, white-label, dedicated CSM)

An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Analyse, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.