OpenReplay vs Mixpanel

From $4.5 per 1k sessions (indicative, cloud)

From $24 per month (indicative, Growth by event volume)

Self-hosting costs only infrastructure. Cloud pricing is usage-based and cheaper than the closed-source leaders.

Event-volume pricing with an unusually generous free tier for early products.

Self-hosted community edition is free and unlimited.

Free plan with a large monthly event allowance.

Established

OpenReplay · since 2021

Category standard

Mixpanel · since 2009

• Full data sovereignty — recordings stay inside your infrastructure.
• Developer-focused feature set comparable to LogRocket.
• No volume-based pricing when self-hosted.

• Genuinely self-serve — product managers build their own reports without help.
• Large free tier that carries an early-stage product a long way.
• Fast query performance on large event volumes.

• Self-hosting session replay is a non-trivial operational commitment, including storage.
• Smaller community and fewer integrations than the commercial tools.
• Analytics and funnel features are thinner.

• Requires disciplined event instrumentation and naming.
• Weaker on user-level qualitative investigation than replay tools.
• Costs scale with event volume, which grows faster than user count.

Privacy-constrained or high-volume teams that cannot use a hosted replay vendor.

Product teams that want fast, self-serve behavioural reporting.