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<h1>Just Fucking Use OpenPanel</h1>
<p>
Stop settling for basic metrics. Get real insights that actually help
you build a better product.
</p>
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alt="OpenPanel Real-time Analytics"
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height="800"
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<figcaption>
Real-time analytics - see events as they happen. No waiting, no
delays.
</figcaption>
</figure>
<h2>The PostHog/Mixpanel Problem (Volume Pricing Hell)</h2>
<p>
Let's talk about what happens when you have a
<strong>real product</strong> with <strong>real users</strong>.
</p>
<p><strong>Real pricing at scale (20M+ events/month):</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Mixpanel</strong>: $2,300/month (and more with add-ons)</li>
<li><strong>PostHog</strong>: $1,982/month (and more with add-ons)</li>
</ul>
<p>
"1 million free events!" they scream. Cute. Until you have an actual
product with actual users doing actual things. Then suddenly you need to
"talk to sales" and your wallet starts bleeding.
</p>
<p>
Add-ons, add-ons everywhere. Session replay? +$X. Feature flags? +$X.
HIPAA compliance? +$250/month. A/B testing? That'll be extra. You're
hemorrhaging money just to understand what your users are doing, you
magnificent fool.
</p>
<h2>The Web-Only Analytics Trap</h2>
<p>
You built a great fucking product. You have real traffic. Thousands,
tens of thousands of visitors. But you're flying blind.
</p>
<blockquote>
"Congrats, 50,000 visitors from France this month. Why didn't a single
one buy your baguette?"
</blockquote>
<p>
You see the traffic. You see the bounce rate. You see the referrers. You
see where they're from. You have <strong>NO FUCKING IDEA</strong> what
users actually do.
</p>
<p>
Where do they drop off? Do they come back? What features do they use?
Why didn't they convert? Who the fuck knows! You're using a glorified
hit counter with a pretty dashboard that tells you everything about
geography and nothing about behavior.
</p>
<p>
Plausible. Umami. Fathom. Simple Analytics. GoatCounter. Cabin. Pirsch.
They're all the same story: simple analytics with some goals you can
define. Page views, visitors, countries, basic funnels. That's it. No
retention analysis. No user profiles. No event tracking. No cohorts. No
revenue tracking. Just... basic web analytics.
</p>
<p>
And when you finally need to understand your users—when you need to see
where they drop off in your signup flow, or which features drive
retention, or why your conversion rate is shit—you end up paying for a
<strong>SECOND tool</strong> on top. Now you're paying for two
subscriptions, managing two dashboards, and your users' data is split
across two platforms like a bad divorce.
</p>
<h2>Counter One Dollar Stats</h2>
<p>"$1/month for page views. Adorable."</p>
<p>
Look, I get it. A dollar is cheap. But you're getting exactly what you
pay for: page views. That's it. No funnels. No retention. No user
profiles. No event tracking. Just... page views.
</p>
<p>
Here's the thing: if you want to make <strong>good decisions</strong>
about your product, you need to understand
<strong>what your users are actually doing</strong>, not just where the
fuck they're from.
</p>
<p>
OpenPanel gives you the full product analytics suite. Or self-host for
<strong>FREE</strong> with <strong>UNLIMITED events</strong>.
</p>
<p>You get:</p>
<ul>
<li>Funnels to see where users drop off</li>
<li>Retention analysis to see who comes back</li>
<li>Cohorts to segment your users</li>
<li>User profiles to understand individual behavior</li>
<li>Custom dashboards to see what matters to YOU</li>
<li>Revenue tracking to see what actually makes money</li>
<li>
All the web analytics (page views, visitors, referrers) that the other
tools give you
</li>
</ul>
<p>
One Dollar Stats tells you 50,000 people visited from France. OpenPanel
tells you why they didn't buy your baguette. That's the difference
between vanity metrics and actual insights.
</p>
<h2>Why OpenPanel is the Answer</h2>
<p>
You want analytics that actually help you build a better product. Not
vanity metrics. Not enterprise pricing. Not two separate tools.
</p>
<p>
To make good decisions, you need to understand
<strong>what your users are doing</strong>, not just where they're from.
You need to see where they drop off. You need to know which features
they use. You need to understand why they convert or why they don't.
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<strong>Open Source & Self-Hostable</strong>: AGPL-3.0 - fork it,
audit it, own it. Self-host for FREE with unlimited events, or use our
cloud
</li>
<li>
<strong>Price</strong>: Affordable pricing that scales, or FREE
self-hosted (unlimited events, forever)
</li>
<li>
<strong>SDK Size</strong>: 2.3KB (PostHog is 52KB+ - that's 22x
bigger, you performance-obsessed maniac)
</li>
<li>
<strong>Privacy</strong>: Cookie-free by default, EU-only hosting (or
your own servers if you self-host)
</li>
<li>
<strong>Full Suite</strong>: Web analytics + product analytics in one
tool. No need for two subscriptions.
</li>
</ul>
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<figcaption>
OpenPanel overview showing web analytics and product analytics in one
clean interface
</figcaption>
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<h2>Open Source & Self-Hosting: The Ultimate Fuck You to Pricing Hell</h2>
<p>
Tired of watching your analytics bill grow every month? Tired of "talk
to sales" when you hit their arbitrary limits? Tired of paying
$2,000+/month just to understand your users?
</p>
<p>
<strong>OpenPanel is open source.</strong> AGPL-3.0 licensed. You can
fork it. You can audit it. You can own it. And you can
<strong>self-host it for FREE with UNLIMITED events</strong>.
</p>
<p>
That's right. Zero dollars. Unlimited events. All the features. Your
data on your servers. No vendor lock-in. No surprise bills. No
"enterprise sales" calls.
</p>
<p>
Mixpanel at 20M events? $2,300/month. PostHog? $1,982/month. OpenPanel
self-hosted? <strong>$0/month</strong>. Forever.
</p>
<p>
Don't want to manage infrastructure? That's fine. Use our cloud. But if
you want to escape the pricing hell entirely, self-hosting is a Docker
command away. Your data, your rules, your wallet.
</p>
<h2>The Comparison Table (The Brutal Truth)</h2>
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<thead>
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<th>Tool</th>
<th>Price at 20M events</th>
<th>What You Get</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><strong>Mixpanel</strong></td>
<td>$2,300+/month</td>
<td>Not all feautres... since addons are extra</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>PostHog</strong></td>
<td>$1,982+/month</td>
<td>Not all feautres... since addons are extra</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>Plausible</strong></td>
<td>Various pricing</td>
<td>
Simple analytics with basic goals. Page views and visitors. That's
it.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>One Dollar Stats</strong></td>
<td>$1/month</td>
<td>Page views (but cheaper!)</td>
</tr>
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<td><strong>OpenPanel</strong></td>
<td><strong>~$530/mo or FREE (self-hosted)</strong></td>
<td>
<strong
>Web + Product analytics. The full package. Open source. Your
data.</strong
>
</td>
</tr>
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User profiles - see individual user journeys and behavior. Something
web-only tools can't give you.
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Funnels, retention, and custom reports - the features you CAN'T get
with web-only tools
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<h2>The Bottom Fucking Line</h2>
<p>
If you want to make good decisions about your product, you need to
understand what your users are actually doing. Not just where they're
from. Not just how many page views you got. You need to see the full
picture: funnels, retention, user behavior, conversion paths.
</p>
<p>You have three choices:</p>
<ol>
<li>
Keep using Google Analytics like a data-harvesting accomplice, adding
cookie banners, annoying your users, and contributing to the dystopian
surveillance economy
</li>
<li>
Pay $2,000+/month for Mixpanel or PostHog when you scale, or use
simple web-only analytics that tell you nothing about user
behavior—just where they're from
</li>
<li>
Use OpenPanel (affordable pricing or FREE self-hosted) and get the
full analytics suite: web analytics AND product analytics in one tool,
so you can actually understand what your users do
</li>
</ol>
<p>
If you picked option 1 or 2, I can't help you. You're beyond saving. Go
enjoy your complicated, privacy-violating, overpriced analytics life
where you know everything about where your users are from but nothing
about what they actually do.
</p>
<p>
But if you have even one functioning brain cell, you'll realize that
OpenPanel gives you everything you need—web analytics AND product
analytics—for a fraction of what the enterprise tools cost. You'll
finally understand what your users are doing, not just where the fuck
they're from.
</p>
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<h2>Ready to understand what your users actually do?</h2>
<p>
Stop settling for vanity metrics. Get the full analytics suite—web
analytics AND product analytics—so you can make better decisions. Or
self-host for free.
</p>
<a href="https://openpanel.dev" target="_blank"
>Get Started with OpenPanel</a
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product
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