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Starting prices use different billing periods and usage units. Compare the same traffic, events, retention and seats.
Choose Ackee ifDevelopers and website owners who need simple traffic and event reporting on infrastructure they control.
Important considerations: Current releases require Node.js 24 or newer and MongoDB. Your team owns upgrades, availability and security; evaluate its aggregate reports against your funnel and replay requirements.
Choose Amplitude ifGrowth teams and product managers who need advanced product analytics
Important considerations: Heatmaps require Plus or higher. Free and Plus plans meter event volume; advanced behavioral analysis, governance, SSO, and higher replay limits require custom tiers.
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| Attribute | Ackee | Amplitude |
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| Overview | A small, self-hosted web analytics tool with cookieless traffic statistics, custom actions and a GraphQL API. You run the Node.js application and MongoDB database. | A digital analytics platform for product, growth, and marketing teams that combines product analytics with session replay, experimentation, feature delivery, and AI-assisted analysis. |
| Pricing | Free MIT-licensed software; budget separately for hosting, backups and maintenance. No vendor-hosted subscription is listed. | Free includes 2M events/month; Plus starts at $0 with 2M events included and usage-based scaling; Growth and Enterprise are custom |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for | Developers and website owners who need simple traffic and event reporting on infrastructure they control. | Growth teams and product managers who need advanced product analytics |
| Operator | Tobias Reich Independent project | Amplitude, Inc. Independent public company |
| Company base | Usingen, Germany · European Union | San Francisco, United States · United States |
| Organization scale | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. | 780 employees · operator, as of 31 Dec 2025 |
| Recent direction | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. | AI-assisted analysis Recent official evidence shows a focus on AI-assisted analysis. |
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| Important considerations | Current releases require Node.js 24 or newer and MongoDB. Your team owns upgrades, availability and security; evaluate its aggregate reports against your funnel and replay requirements. | Heatmaps require Plus or higher. Free and Plus plans meter event volume; advanced behavioral analysis, governance, SSO, and higher replay limits require custom tiers. |
| Integrations | JavaScript, GraphQL, Docker | Segment, Zapier |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30. |
This matrix shows capabilities recorded in our catalog. Not listed means we have not confirmed the capability here. Check the linked vendor sources for plan, deployment, and usage limits.
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| Attribute | Ackee | Amplitude |
|---|---|---|
| A/B testing | Not listed | Listed |
| AI insights | Not listed | Listed |
| App analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Not listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Cohort analysis | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Not listed |
| Cross-device tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Not listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Listed | Not listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Not listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Goals | Not listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Not listed | Listed |
| Open source | Listed | Not listed |
| Personalization | Not listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Not listed |
| Real-time data | Not listed | Listed |
| Retention analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Not listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Not listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Not listed |