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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

📊 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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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

Openpanel

Install / Use

README