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Heap vs Open Analytics comparison

Compare pricing, deployment, product fit, integrations, and capabilities side by side.

Which platform fits your needs?

Choose Open Analytics if

Privacy-focused product, marketing, and development teams that want open web analytics with revenue attribution and AI-agent access

Capabilities only listed for Open Analytics

Important considerations: The hosted service has no free plan. Self-hosting needs Linux, Docker, four DNS records, about 4 GB of RAM, and 25 GB of disk; published images are amd64. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control traffic is intentionally not recorded.

Attribute Heap Open Analytics
Overview An automatic product analytics platform, now part of Contentsquare, that focuses on low-code event capture, funnels, journeys, enrichment, and enterprise-ready data governance.An open-source, privacy-first web analytics platform available as a hosted cloud service or self-hosted AGPL-3.0 software, with cookieless traffic reporting, realtime data, funnels, visitor journeys, retention, revenue attribution, Web Vitals, exports, AI analysis, and MCP access.
Pricing Free up to 10K monthly sessions; Growth is self-serve; Pro and Premier are custom-priced, with replay and heatmaps sold as add-onsAGPL-3.0 self-hosting has no license fee. Hosted monthly plans: Starter $9 for 50,000 events and 1 site; Growth $19 for 500,000 events and 5 sites; Pro $49 for 5 million events and 10 sites. No hosted free plan.
Deployment Vendor-hosted cloudSelf-hosted and hosted options
Best for Product teams and marketers who want automatic tracking and user behavior insightsPrivacy-focused product, marketing, and development teams that want open web analytics with revenue attribution and AI-agent access
Operator Heap Inc.
Subsidiary of Content Square SAS
AGHAZADA LLC
Independent private company
Company base San Francisco, United States · United StatesNew Mexico, United States · United States
Organization scale No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed.No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed.
Recent direction suite consolidation
Recent official evidence shows a focus on suite consolidation.
marketing attribution
Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution.
Key features
  • Automatic event capture
  • Funnels and journeys
  • Retention analysis
  • Session replay
  • Heatmaps
  • Error analysis
  • Data enrichment
  • Warehouse connections
  • Cookieless web analytics
  • Hosted cloud or AGPL self-hosting
  • Realtime dashboard and live globe
  • Custom events and funnels
  • Visitor journeys and retention
  • Stripe revenue attribution
  • Campaign and UTM reporting
  • Core Web Vitals
  • Public dashboards and embeds
  • Data import and export
  • AI assistant, MCP server, and CLI
Important considerations Session replay, heatmaps, and error analysis are add-ons on Pro and Premier; pricing above Growth is custom.The hosted service has no free plan. Self-hosting needs Linux, Docker, four DNS records, about 4 GB of RAM, and 25 GB of disk; published images are amd64. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control traffic is intentionally not recorded.
Integrations Segment, SalesforceStripe, Plausible, Fathom
Fact check We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-27.

Capability matrix

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.

AttributeHeapOpen Analytics
A/B testing Listed Not listed
AI insights Listed Listed
App analytics Listed Not listed
Audience insights Listed Listed
Behavior analytics Listed Listed
CCPA compliant Listed Not listed
Cohort analysis Listed Not listed
Cookieless Not listed Listed
Cross-device tracking Listed Not listed
Custom reports Listed Not listed
Data export Listed Listed
Data ownership Not listed Listed
E-commerce tracking Listed Listed
Event tracking Listed Listed
Free plan Listed Not listed
Funnels Listed Listed
GDPR compliant Listed Listed
Goals Listed Listed
Heatmaps Listed Not listed
Integrations Listed Listed
Open source Not listed Listed
Privacy-first Not listed Listed
Real-time data Listed Listed
Retention analytics Listed Listed
Revenue tracking Listed Listed
Self-hosted Not listed Listed
Session recordings Listed Not listed
User segments Listed Not listed
Web analytics Not listed Listed
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