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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.
Regulated businesses and public organizations that need privacy controls, consent management, and detailed first-party analytics
Important considerations: Piwik PRO is vendor-hosted in public or private cloud rather than a do-it-yourself self-hosted product. Session logs and heatmaps are available, but it is not a session-replay platform.
| Attribute | OpenPanel | Piwik PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | 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. | A privacy-first analytics and data activation suite for regulated organizations, combining web and mobile analytics, tag management, consent management, customer journeys, ecommerce reporting, and real-time audience activation. |
| Pricing | 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 | Business starts at €36/month for up to 2M monthly actions and 20 domains; Enterprise starts at €366/month billed annually |
| Deployment | Self-hosted and hosted options | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for | Developers, SaaS teams, and privacy-conscious businesses that want one open-source system for website and product analytics | Regulated businesses and public organizations that need privacy controls, consent management, and detailed first-party analytics |
| Operator | OpenPanel AB Independent private company | Piwik PRO SA Subsidiary of Cookie Information Group |
| Company base | Stockholm, Sweden · European Union | Wrocław, Poland · European Union |
| Organization scale | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. | about 200 team members · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 |
| Recent direction | product analytics Recent official evidence shows a focus on product analytics. | platform integration Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration. |
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| 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. | Piwik PRO is vendor-hosted in public or private cloud rather than a do-it-yourself self-hosted product. Session logs and heatmaps are available, but it is not a session-replay platform. |
| Integrations | JavaScript, React, Next.js, Vue, Swift, Kotlin, REST API | Google Ads, Google Search Console, Looker Studio, Power BI, Consent platforms |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. |
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 | OpenPanel | Piwik PRO |
|---|---|---|
| A/B testing | Listed | Not listed |
| AI insights | Listed | Not listed |
| App analytics | Listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Cohort analysis | Listed | Not listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Listed |
| Cross-device tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Goals | Listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Listed | Listed |
| Open source | Listed | Not listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Listed | Listed |
| Retention analytics | Listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Not listed |
| Session recordings | Listed | Not listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Not listed |