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Countly Community Edition
Real time mobile and web analytics, crash reporting and push notifications platform.
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Analytics
Open source alternatives to Mixpanel
We track 4 open-source Mixpanel alternatives, of which 4 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 1 ship a Docker image. Countly Community Edition leads on health at 95/100 with 923 commits in the last 90 days; across all 4 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, GPL-3.0, MIT.
updated Oct 2026 4 alternatives best health 95 ★ 98k combined 18,943 commits / 90d 1 with Docker
Top picks to replace Mixpanel
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Healthiest
Health 95/100: 923 commits in 90 days, latest release 25.03.58, Docker image available.
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Most starred
40,516 stars, the biggest community among Mixpanel alternatives.
Showing 4 of 4 tools
All 4 Mixpanel alternatives, ranked by health
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PostHog
Product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and a/b testing that you can self-host (alternative to Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap, HotJar, Optimizely).
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Plausible Analytics
Simple, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics.
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Matomo
Web analytics that protects your data and your customers' privacy (alternative to Google Analytics).
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Mixpanel alternatives compared
Countly Community Edition edges PostHog 95 to 88, and most of the difference is Docker support: a Docker image against no Docker image. PostHog is the busier codebase, though, with 17,556 commits in 90 days to 923. PostHog has the largest following at 41k stars, yet ranks #2 of 4, held back mostly by Docker support (no Docker image).
The most recent release is PostHog desktop-v0.61.881, published today. None of the measured options scores under 40. By stack, Elixir (1), Nodejs (1) and PHP (1) are the most common. PostHog is permissively licensed; Countly Community Edition, Plausible Analytics and Matomo are copyleft.
4 of these 4 also appear among the Amplitude alternatives, which lists 1 more.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit | Docker |
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| Countly Community Edition Steady at 95 since 11 Sep | 95 | 5.9k | AGPL-3.0 | today | Yes |
| PostHog Steady at 88 since 11 Sep | 88 | 41k | MIT | today | No |
| Plausible Analytics Steady at 88 since 11 Sep, no release for 5 months | 88 | 30k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday | No |
| Matomo Steady at 87 since 11 Sep | 87 | 22k | GPL-3.0 | today | No |
Mixpanel alternatives: common questions
What is the most maintained open source alternative to Mixpanel?
Countly Community Edition scores highest at 95/100, with 923 commits in the last 90 days, 5.9k stars on GitHub and its latest release (25.03.58) published 3 days ago. PostHog has the most raw commit activity at 17556 commits in 90 days.
Which Mixpanel alternatives use a permissive licence?
1 of 4 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): PostHog (MIT). 3 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.
Which Mixpanel alternatives run in Docker?
1 of 4 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Countly Community Edition. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.
Is Countly Community Edition or PostHog the better Mixpanel alternative?
On measured health Countly Community Edition leads, 95 to 88. Countly Community Edition has 923 commits in 90 days, 5.9k stars and 25.03.58 from 3 days ago; PostHog has 17,556 commits in 90 days, 41k stars and desktop-v0.61.881 from today. Pick PostHog if licensing matters: it is MIT, while Countly Community Edition is AGPL-3.0.
Are the Mixpanel alternatives still maintained?
4 of the 4 measured options score 70 or above. Every measured option had commits in the last 90 days. None scores under 40.
What languages are the Mixpanel alternatives written in?
Elixir: Plausible Analytics. Nodejs: Countly Community Edition. PHP: Matomo. The stack matters if you plan to extend or patch the tool yourself.
