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Businesses and organizations that want full data ownership and privacy compliance
Important considerations: On-Premise is free at the core but advanced plugins, support, hosting, maintenance, and infrastructure can add cost.
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 | Matomo | OpenPanel |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | A privacy-focused analytics suite available in self-hosted and cloud editions, designed for organizations that need full data ownership, governance controls, and extensible analytics across websites and apps. | 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 | Self-hosted open source; Matomo Cloud pricing is traffic-based via its public calculator, with enterprise support and add-ons priced separately | 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 | Self-hosted and hosted options | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Businesses and organizations that want full data ownership and privacy compliance | Developers, SaaS teams, and privacy-conscious businesses that want one open-source system for website and product analytics |
| Operator | InnoCraft Limited Independent private company | OpenPanel AB Independent private company |
| Company base | Auckland, New Zealand · Other region | 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 | AI-assisted analysis Recent official evidence shows a focus on AI-assisted analysis. | product analytics Recent official evidence shows a focus on product analytics. |
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| Important considerations | On-Premise is free at the core but advanced plugins, support, hosting, maintenance, and infrastructure can add cost. | 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 | WordPress, Magento, Google Tag Manager | 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 | Matomo | OpenPanel |
|---|---|---|
| A/B testing | Listed | Listed |
| AI insights | Not 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 | Listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Goals | Listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Listed | Not listed |
| Integrations | Listed | Listed |
| Open source | Listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Listed | Listed |
| Retention analytics | Listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Listed | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Not listed | Listed |