Analytics and monitoring
Mixpanel 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.
The projects
PostHog/posthog★37,541 GitHub starslicence unclearSelf-hosted analytics offering events, session replay, experiments/feature flags, and dashboards.Open on GitHub ↗umami-software/umami★38,089 GitHub starsMIT licencePrivacy-first self-hosted product analytics with event tracking, dashboards, and conversion reports.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Proprietary high-performance query engine (Arb) and its low-latency queries
- Enterprise-grade AI agents, anomaly/root-cause analysis, and Mixpanel AI features
- Built-in experiments/feature flags with statistical analysis
- Polished session replay indexing and search at scale
- Out-of-the-box governance, compliance tooling, and enterprise support SLAs (SAML/SCIM/audit logs)
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Mixpanel, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.