PostHog is an open-source analytics and product-tooling platform written primarily in Python, with JavaScript and React components for client-side instrumentation. It lives in the web and product analytics ecosystem, and it also reaches into session replay, experimentation, error tracking, log ingestion, customer data pipelines, and LLM observability. Rather than stitching together a separate tool for each of those jobs, PostHog captures event data once and lets teams query it alongside data synced from external sources such as Stripe and Hubspot.
NOASSERTION · Python · Mixpanel vs PostHog →
Umami is a TypeScript analytics platform released under the MIT licence. It collects traffic, campaigns, behavior, conversions and revenue in one place, and it states plainly that it uses no cookies and performs no surveillance. It ships in two shapes: a self-hosted application that an operator runs against their own PostgreSQL database, and a cloud offering reachable from the project homepage at umami.is. The repository carries 38,878 stars and 8,051 forks, which places it among the more widely adopted projects in the Data & Analytics / Web & Product Analytics category, and it sits alongside the web-analytics, product-analytics, audience-segmentation, cohort-analysis and user-journey topics its maintainers tag it with.
MIT · TypeScript · Mixpanel vs Umami →
Plausible Analytics is an open source web analytics application written in Elixir, built on Phoenix, with PostgreSQL and ClickHouse named in its topic list as the supporting data stores. It sits in the web and product analytics ecosystem, alongside the tracking-script-plus-dashboard model that has dominated the field for years. The project measures traffic rather than individuals: no personal data and no IP addresses are stored, and no cookies or persistent identifiers are used. It is made and hosted in the EU and is fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR.
AGPL-3.0 · Elixir · Mixpanel vs Plausible →