Analytics and monitoring decision
Formo
A capable developer can build a narrow self-hosted onchain analytics workflow (event capture, indexer enrichment, attribution, dashboards) but reproducing Formo’s cross-chain indexing, identity stitching, managed integrations, Ask-AI features, and enterprise polish would be costly and operationally heavy; keep paying for full product for those capabilities.
Visit website↗$159/mo
$1,908/yr
Read off the official pricing page.
$100one-off60 h to build
$200/mo6 h/mo upkeep
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 2 seats.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Collect web + wallet events, enrich with onchain transactions, join offchain visits to onchain addresses, store events for fast queries, present charts/funnels and simple segmentation UI.
What it still won’t have
- Managed cross-chain indexing and scale optimizations
- Pre-built wallet identity stitching and enrichment (labels, socials)
- Integrated MCP / Ask AI features and hosted LLM connections
- Enterprise SLAs, support, and volume discounts
- Out-of-the-box token-gated forms and social verification integrations
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
Keep paying
Paying is—cheaper in year one.
On cash alone, building overtakes the subscription at 2 seats.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a minimal self-hosted onchain analytics service using: Node.js + Express for ingestion, Ethers.js and an indexer API (Alchemy/QuickNode) for onchain data, Postgres (+ ClickHouse if available) for event storage, and a React + Vite dashboard. In scope: client SDK to capture page visits, UTM parameters and wallet-connect events; server endpoints to receive events and enqueue onchain enrichment jobs; jobs that fetch and parse transactions/contract events and join them to captured addresses; an attribution engine implementing UTM parsing and simple heuristics to link visits → wallets → conversions; API endpoints for funnels, cohorts and simple segmentation; a dashboard showing realtime events, funnels, cohort retention and export CSV. Out of scope: full enterprise SSO, SLA support, large-scale cross-chain indexer implementation, hosted LLM/Ask-AI integration, and managed token-gated form builder. Include error handling, retries for indexer calls, unit and integration tests, and deployment manifests (Docker + docker-compose or Kubernetes).
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- 3 cited sources+3
- Price verified on pricing page+3
- 3/3 assessment runs agreed+4
- Evidence score62
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 3
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productFormo — official product
- official pricingFormo — pricing
- official docsFormo — product
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
