Analytics & BI

Amplitude is a product analytics platform that helps teams understand user behavior, build cohorts, and connect analytics to experimentation. It is widely used by product-led companies for data-driven decisions.

✦ Best for plg teams and growth experts

PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform bundling analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing, and surveys in one tool. It can be self-hosted or used as a cloud service.

✦ Best for engineering teams seeking self-hosted analytics control.

Plausible is a simple, privacy-first web analytics tool that is cookie-free and GDPR-compliant, with a script far lighter than Google Analytics. It is open source and can be self-hosted.

✦ Best for small gdpr-compliant sites

Mixpanel is a product analytics platform focused on event tracking, funnels, retention, and cohort analysis to help teams understand how users engage with their product. It is popular with product and growth teams.

✦ Best for product teams seeking retention and funnel analysis

Google Analytics is the most widely used web analytics platform, tracking traffic, user behavior, and conversions. The current GA4 version uses an event-based model spanning web and app.

✦ Best for large sites and google ecosystem users

Kepler.gl is a powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets. It allows users to visualize and explore geospatial data in a highly interactive and customizable way, enabling them to gain insights and make data-driven decisions.

✦ Best for urban planners and data analysts

fg-data-profiling provides a minimal‑code way to generate comprehensive data quality reports for both Pandas and Spark DataFrames. With a single function call you obtain statistics, missing‑value analysis, and visual summaries that help you understand your data quickly. The library is open‑source, lightweight, and integrates seamlessly into existing Python data pipelines, making it ideal for exploratory data analysis, data cleaning, and model preparation without heavy configuration.

✦ Best for python data scientists needing quick, code‑only profiling of pandas or spark data

DataEase is an open-source business intelligence (BI) tool that provides a user-friendly interface for data visualization and analysis. It is designed to be an alternative to Tableau, offering a range of features and capabilities for working with data. DataEase is highly customizable and can be used by individuals and organizations of all sizes.

✦ Best for smbs on a budget

Redash lets data analysts and scientists query databases, visualize results, and share interactive dashboards. It supports a wide range of data sources and can be self‑hosted for full control over data and security.

✦ Best for teams needing free, self‑hosted dashboards with diverse data source support