Choosing product analytics software means balancing product fit, openness, and project health rather than relying on popularity alone. This October 2026 snapshot uses the supplied ToolVitals scores and project details for the Product Analytics category.
The ranking includes open/source-visible tools and orders them by ToolVitals score, then health and shipping when scores are equal. GitHub stars are included as context only and do not determine the ranking.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PostHog | Open core | MIT | 99 | 99 | 40344 | 99 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | OpenPanel | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 95 | 95 | 7159 | 95 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 3 | OpenReplay | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 93 | 89 | 13008 | 91 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 4 | Metarank | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 86 | 85 | 2454 | 85 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 5 | Vemetric | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 82 | 77 | 393 | 80 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 6 | LiteMetrics | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 77 | 72 | 4 | 75 | 🟢 Good |
| 7 | Aptabase | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 78 | 67 | 1849 | 74 | 🟢 Good |
| 8 | Umami | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 72 | 46 | 39492 | 62 | 🟢 Good |
| 9 | Operational | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 58 | 40 | 474 | 51 | 🟡 Fair |
| 10 | Featuredrop | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 54 | 33 | 14 | 45 | 🟡 Fair |
| 11 | Snowplow | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 34 | 0 | 7044 | 21 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 12 | Trench | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 8 | 0 | 1665 | 5 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 13 | Evntaly | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 6 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 14 | TrakrLog | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 15 | Reporter Engine | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 1 | 0 | 103 | 1 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 16 | WhoWhyWhen | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 17 | Swishjam | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 0 | 0 | 177 | 0 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 18 | fugu | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 0 | 0 | 214 | 0 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
Top 3 Highlights
PostHog ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 99, alongside health and shipping scores of 99. The supplied description is “Open-source product analytics”; ToolVitals labels its openness as Open core and its license as MIT. Its 40,344 GitHub stars add context, but are not the reason it leads this ranking.
OpenPanel ranks second with a ToolVitals score of 95, matching health and shipping scores of 95. The supplied description identifies it as a web and product analytics platform with optional self-hosting and an alternative to Mixpanel. Its labels are OSI-approved OSS and AGPL-3.0, with 7,159 GitHub stars as context.
OpenReplay ranks third with a ToolVitals score of 91, a health score of 93, and a shipping score of 89. Its supplied description focuses on self-hosted session replay, cobrowsing, and product analytics for reproducing issues and iterating on a product. ToolVitals labels it OSI-approved OSS and AGPL-3.0; its 13,008 GitHub stars are contextual only.
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