Amplitude vs RevenueCat
Digital analytics + experimentation + CDP
vs. Mobile subscription infrastructure — iOS + Android + web in one API
Pricing tiers
Amplitude
Starter (Free)
10K Monthly Tracked Users, 10M events/mo. Session Replay + unlimited feature flags + Web Experimentation + AI Feedback included.
Free
Plus
$49/mo (annual). Up to 300K MTUs + 25M events. Unlimited product analytics, behavioral cohorts, feature tagging, custom audiences.
$49/mo
Growth
Custom. Causal insights, Feature Experimentation, real-time streaming, predictive audiences.
Custom
Enterprise
Custom. Cross-product analysis, advanced data controls, mutual exclusion groups, multi-armed bandit.
Custom
RevenueCat
Starter
$0. Free up to $2,500 MTR (monthly tracked revenue). All core features. Email support.
Free
Pro
$0 base + 1% of MTR above $2,500. All features + priority support + SLA.
$0 base (usage-based)
Enterprise
Custom. Volume discount, dedicated support, custom contract.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing starter on Amplitude vs starter on RevenueCat.
| Metric | Amplitude | RevenueCat |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Amplitude · 13 features
- AI Feedback (Asking) — Natural language questions over your Amplitude data.
- Amplitude CDP — Customer Data Platform — identify, segment, sync to 150+ destinations.
- Causal Insights — AI identifies why a metric changed — root cause.
- Cross-Product Analysis — Analyze across multiple apps/products in the same org.
- Data Governance — Taxonomies, schemas, approvals, category management.
- Data Warehouse Sync — Sync data to/from Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks.
- Feature Experimentation — Server-side / SDK-level experiments. Growth+.
- Feature Flags — Targeting rules + rollouts. Unlimited in Starter.
- North Star Metric — Pre-built dashboards for key metric tracking.
- Predictive Audiences — ML-based forecasting of user behavior.
- Product Analytics — Core events + funnels + retention + segmentation.
- Session Replay — Pixel-perfect user session recording + privacy masking.
- Web Experimentation — A/B test visual changes on your site without deploy.
RevenueCat · 13 features
- Audiences + Targeting — Target users by cohort, country, event.
- Charts — Cohort retention, LTV, MRR dashboards.
- Customer Center — Native UI for subscription management.
- Data Integrations — Push events to Mixpanel/Amplitude/Segment/etc.
- Entitlements — Server-authoritative feature unlocks independent of SKU.
- Experiments — Built-in A/B testing.
- Offerings + Packages — Remote product groupings + package targeting.
- Paywalls — Remote-configurable native paywall UI templates.
- Purchases — Unified purchase API across stores.
- Receipt Validation — Server-side App Store + Play receipt validation.
- Restore Purchases — Cross-device + reinstall restore.
- Web Billing (Stripe) — Accept subs via web with Stripe, reconcile with mobile.
- Webhooks — Subscription lifecycle events.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | Amplitude | RevenueCat |
|---|---|---|
| SDK | amplitude-analytics-python, @amplitude/analytics-react-native, amplitude-android, amplitude-js / browser-sdk, amplitude-node, AmplitudeSwift (iOS) | RevenueCat Android SDK, RevenueCat Flutter, RevenueCat iOS SDK, RevenueCat React Native, RevenueCat Web Billing |
| REST | Amplitude HTTP API v2, Batch Event API, Export API | RevenueCat REST API |
| OTHER | Data Destinations (webhooks) | RevenueCat Dashboard, RevenueCat Webhooks |
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