Replace Mixpanel
Event-based product analytics: funnels, retention curves and cohort reports.
Why teams move off Mixpanel
Event analytics priced on volume, which means the bill scales with product usage — the metric you least want to discourage.
What you give up
Funnel and retention analysis. Ahoy collects the events; the analysis is yours to build or to mount separately.
This directory says so when an engine only covers part of the job. A replacement that needs a caveat is still worth knowing about — it just should not surprise you in week three.
1 Rails engine that replaces Mixpanel
Questions
- Is there an open-source alternative to Mixpanel for Rails?
- Yes — Ahoy. It mounts into an application you already run, so there is no second deployment and no second database.
- What do I give up by replacing Mixpanel?
- Funnel and retention analysis. Ahoy collects the events; the analysis is yours to build or to mount separately.
- How do I replace Mixpanel in a Rails app?
- Add ahoy_matey to your Gemfile, mount it in config/routes.rb at /ahoy, and run its migrations. The whole integration is two lines and a migration.
- How much does replacing Mixpanel save?
- Mixpanel is priced free tier, paid from $28/mo. The engines here are open source, so the cost becomes the time to mount one and the resources it uses inside your existing application.
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