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Openpanel

An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

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✨ Features

• 🔍 Advanced Analytics: Funnels, cohorts, user profiles, and session history
• 🎬 Session Replay: Record and replay user sessions with privacy controls built in
• 📊 Real-time Dashboards: Live data updates and interactive charts
• 🎯 A/B Testing: Built-in variant testing with detailed breakdowns
• 🔔 Smart Notifications: Event and funnel-based alerts
• 🌍 Privacy-First: Cookieless tracking and GDPR compliance
• 🚀 Developer-Friendly: Comprehensive SDKs and API access
• 📦 Self-Hosted: Full control over your data and infrastructure
• 💸 Transparent Pricing: No hidden costs or usage limits
• 🛠️ Custom Dashboards: Flexible chart creation and data visualization
• 📱 Multi-Platform: Web, mobile (iOS/Android), and server-side tracking
• 🤖 MCP Server: Ask Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client about your users — 38 tools, hosted, no install
• 💰 Revenue Tracking: Monitor purchases, subscriptions, and LTV alongside product events
• 🔌 Integrations: Connect Google Search Console, and more to enrich your data

📊 Analytics Platform Comparison

| Feature | OpenPanel | Mixpanel | GA4 | Plausible | |----------------------------------------|-----------|----------|-----------|-----------| | ✅ Open-source | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | | 🧩 Self-hosting supported | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | | 🔒 Cookieless by default | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | | 🔁 Real-time dashboards | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | | 🔍 Funnels & cohort analysis | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅** | | 👤 User profiles & session history | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | | 🎬 Session replay | ✅ | ✅** | ❌ | ❌ | | 📈 Custom dashboards & charts | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | | 💬 Event & funnel notifications | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | | 🌍 GDPR-compliant tracking | ✅ | ✅ | ❌** | ✅ | | 📦 SDKs (Web, Swift, Kotlin, ReactNative) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | | 💸 Transparent pricing | ✅ | ❌ | ✅* | ✅ | | 🚀 Built for developers | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | | 🔧 A/B testing & variant breakdowns | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |

✅* GA4 has a free tier but often requires BigQuery (paid) for raw data access.

❌** GA4 has faced GDPR bans in several EU countries due to data transfers to US-based servers.

✅* Plausible has simple goals

✅** Mixpanel session replay is limited to 5k sessions/month on free and 20k on paid. OpenPanel has no limit.

Stack

• Nextjs - the dashboard
• Fastify - event api
• Postgres - storing basic information
• Clickhouse - storing events
• Redis - cache layer, pub/sub and queue
• BullMQ - queue
• GroupMQ - for grouped queue
• Resend - email
• Arctic - oauth
• Oslo - auth
• tRPC - api
• Tailwind - styling
• Shadcn - ui

Self-hosting

OpenPanel can be self-hosted and we have tried to make it as simple as possible.

You can find the how to here

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bun install
cp .env.example .env
echo "API_URL=http://localhost:3333" > apps/start/.env
bun run dock:up
bun run codegen
bun run migrate:deploy # once to setup the db
bun run dev