Matomo vs Mixpanel

From $29 per month (Cloud, 50k hits; annual billing gives 2 months free)

Free tier available

Self-hosting is free but plugins such as heatmaps and A/B testing are paid add-ons. Cloud scales with hits.

Growth now starts at $0 and scales with event volume up to 20M events a month, with the first million free; annual billing saves around $480 a year. Enterprise is quote-based. Event-volume pricing stays generous for early products but climbs with a chatty event schema.

Self-hosted Community edition is free forever with unlimited users and hits; premium plugins are paid.

Free forever, up to 1M events a month.

Widely used

InnoCraft · since 2007

Category standard

Mixpanel · since 2009

• Complete data ownership with no third-party processing — the strongest GDPR position available.
• No sampling, unlike free tiers of hosted analytics.
• Can be configured to run without cookies or consent banners.

• Genuinely self-serve — product managers build their own reports without help.
• Large free tier that carries an early-stage product a long way.
• Fast query performance on large event volumes.

• Self-hosting requires PHP and MySQL operations, including performance tuning at scale.
• The interface is less refined than modern product analytics tools.
• Advanced features are paid plugins even on the free self-hosted edition.

• Requires disciplined event instrumentation and naming.
• Weaker on user-level qualitative investigation than replay tools.
• Costs scale with event volume, which grows faster than user count.

Public sector, healthcare and European organisations with strict data-residency requirements.

Product teams that want fast, self-serve behavioural reporting.