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Open Analytics vs Pendo 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.

Choose Pendo if

Product, customer success, and digital adoption teams that need analytics plus in-app guidance, feedback, and enterprise governance

Capabilities only listed for Pendo

Important considerations: Paid prices are not public and depend on monthly active users and selected modules. Session Replay is not included in every plan, and Pendo Free stops creation of new guides, NPS surveys, or segments above 500 MAUs.

Attribute Open Analytics Pendo
Overview 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.A product experience and digital adoption platform combining product analytics, retroactive page and feature tagging, funnels, paths, retention, session replay, in-app guides, NPS and other sentiment tools, roadmaps, and AI-assisted insights.
Pricing AGPL-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.Free plan for up to 500 monthly active users; paid Base, Core, and Ultimate plans use custom MAU- and module-based pricing; full-platform trial lasts 30 days
Deployment Self-hosted and hosted optionsVendor-hosted cloud
Best for Privacy-focused product, marketing, and development teams that want open web analytics with revenue attribution and AI-agent accessProduct, customer success, and digital adoption teams that need analytics plus in-app guidance, feedback, and enterprise governance
Operator AGHAZADA LLC
Independent private company
Pendo.io, Inc.
Independent private company
Company base New Mexico, United States · United StatesRaleigh, United States · United States
Organization scale No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed.at least 850 employees · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026
Recent direction marketing attribution
Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution.
AI-assisted analysis
Recent official evidence shows a focus on AI-assisted analysis.
Key features
  • 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
  • Product usage analytics
  • Retroactive page and feature tagging
  • Funnels and paths
  • Retention and portfolio health
  • Session replay
  • In-app guides and resource centers
  • NPS and sentiment surveys
  • Roadmaps and product discovery
  • AI-assisted insights
  • Web and mobile support
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.Paid prices are not public and depend on monthly active users and selected modules. Session Replay is not included in every plan, and Pendo Free stops creation of new guides, NPS surveys, or segments above 500 MAUs.
Integrations Stripe, Plausible, FathomSalesforce, Slack, Jira, Segment, Snowflake, Zendesk, HubSpot, Microsoft Teams
Fact check We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-27. We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09.

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.

AttributeOpen AnalyticsPendo
AI insights Listed Listed
App analytics Not listed Listed
Audience insights Listed Listed
Behavior analytics Listed Listed
Cohort analysis Not listed Listed
Cookieless Listed Not listed
Cross-device tracking Not listed Listed
Custom reports Not listed Listed
Data export Listed Listed
Data ownership Listed Not listed
E-commerce tracking Listed Not listed
Enterprise Not listed Listed
Event tracking Listed Listed
Free plan Not listed Listed
Funnels Listed Listed
GDPR compliant Listed Not listed
Goals Listed Listed
Integrations Listed Listed
Open source Listed Not listed
Personalization Not listed Listed
Privacy-first Listed Not listed
Real-time data Listed Not listed
Retention analytics Listed Listed
Revenue tracking Listed Not listed
Self-hosted Listed Not listed
Session recordings Not listed Listed
Surveys Not listed Listed
User feedback Not listed Listed
User segments Not listed Listed
Web analytics Listed Listed
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