
Openpanel
An open-source alternative to Mixpanel
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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](https://openpanel.dev/docs/self-hosting/self-hosting)
**Give us a star if you like it!**
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## Development
### Prerequisites
- Docker
- Docker Compose
- Node
- pnpm
### Start
```bash
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
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