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Product teams and marketers who want automatic tracking and user behavior insights
Important considerations: Session replay, heatmaps, and error analysis are add-ons on Pro and Premier; pricing above Growth is custom.
Developers, SaaS teams, and privacy-conscious businesses that want one open-source system for website and product analytics
Important considerations: Cloud has no permanent general free plan after its 30-day trial. Self-hosting requires a VPS, Docker-based services, database operations, upgrades, email configuration, security, and backups.
| Attribute | Heap | OpenPanel |
|---|---|---|
| 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 web and product analytics platform combining cookieless traffic reporting, event analytics, custom dashboards, funnels, retention, revenue tracking, user profiles, session replay, A/B testing, and an optional AI assistant. |
| Pricing | Free up to 10K monthly sessions; Growth is self-serve; Pro and Premier are custom-priced, with replay and heatmaps sold as add-ons | 30-day cloud trial; cloud starts at $2.50/month for 5,000 events, $20/month for 100,000 events, and scales by event volume; AGPL self-hosting is free |
| Deployment | Vendor-hosted cloud | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Product teams and marketers who want automatic tracking and user behavior insights | Developers, SaaS teams, and privacy-conscious businesses that want one open-source system for website and product analytics |
| Operator | Heap Inc. Subsidiary of Content Square SAS | OpenPanel AB Independent private company |
| Company base | San Francisco, United States · United States | Stockholm, Sweden · European Union |
| 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. | product analytics Recent official evidence shows a focus on product analytics. |
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| Important considerations | Session replay, heatmaps, and error analysis are add-ons on Pro and Premier; pricing above Growth is custom. | Cloud has no permanent general free plan after its 30-day trial. Self-hosting requires a VPS, Docker-based services, database operations, upgrades, email configuration, security, and backups. |
| Integrations | Segment, Salesforce | JavaScript, React, Next.js, Vue, Swift, Kotlin, REST API |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09. |
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.
| Attribute | Heap | OpenPanel |
|---|---|---|
| A/B testing | Listed | Listed |
| AI insights | Listed | Listed |
| App analytics | Listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Cohort analysis | Listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Not listed | Listed |
| Cross-device tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Custom reports | Listed | 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 | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Not listed | Listed |