Openpanel

An open-source alternative to Mixpanel

Website · Docs · Sign in · Discord · X/Twitter · Creator ·

Openpanel is an open-source web and product analytics platform that combines the power of Mixpanel with the ease of Plausible and one of the best Google Analytics replacements.

✨ 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

Give us a star if you like it!

Development

Prerequisites

Docker
Docker Compose
Node
pnpm

Start

pnpm install
cp .env.example .env
echo "API_URL=http://localhost:3333" > apps/start/.env

pnpm dock:up
pnpm codegen
pnpm migrate:deploy # once to setup the db
pnpm dev

You can now access the following:

Dashboard: https://localhost:3000
API: https://api.localhost:3333
Bullboard (queue): http://localhost:9999
pnpm dock:ch to access clickhouse terminal
pnpm dock:redis to access redis terminal

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

✅

❌