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Mixpanel vs PocketBase

Enterprise product analytics — behavioral cohorts + funnels + A/B
vs. Open-source backend in a single Go binary

Mixpanel website ↗PocketBase (OSS) ↗

Pricing tiers

Mixpanel

Free
1M events/month cap. Unlimited seats, 5 saved reports, 10K session replays/month. No credit card.
Free
Growth
Usage-based. First 1M events free, then $0.28 per 1K events (volume discounts). 20K session replays/mo.
$0 base (usage-based)
Startup Program
First year free for <5-year companies with <$8M funding.
$0 base (usage-based)
Enterprise
Custom. Unlimited events. Experiments + feature flags. HIPAA, SOC 2 Type II. 24/7 support.
Custom
Mixpanel website ↗

PocketBase

Self-Hosted
MIT-licensed single binary. Run on any VPS / Docker / bare metal. No usage caps — only limited by your server.
$0 base (usage-based)
PocketBase (OSS) ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Mixpanel vs self-hosted on PocketBase.

MetricMixpanelPocketBase
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Mixpanel · 13 features

  • Alerts — Anomaly + threshold alerts on metrics.
  • Campaign Reporting — UTM + multi-touch attribution reporting.
  • Cohorts — Dynamic user segments from event behavior + properties.
  • Dashboards — Multi-report dashboards with slices.
  • Data Governance — Property schemas, approvals, lineage. Enterprise only.
  • Data Warehouse Connectors — Sync from/to Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift.
  • Experiments (A/B) — Feature-flag-backed experiments. Enterprise only.
  • Feature Flags — Targeting + rollouts. Enterprise tier.
  • Flows — User path visualization (where do users go).
  • Funnels — Conversion step-by-step analysis with drop-off + time-to-convert.
  • Insights (Reports) — Ad-hoc exploration with filters, breakdowns, math operators.
  • Retention — N-day retention curves segmented by cohort.
  • Session Replay — Record + watch user sessions tied to events.

PocketBase · 12 features

  • Access Rules — Record-level access rules (filter expressions) referencing @request and @collect…
  • Admin Dashboard — Built-in web UI for schema + data management.
  • Auth — Email+password, OAuth2 (Google, GitHub, Facebook, Apple, Discord, Microsoft, etc…
  • Backups — Built-in backup/restore with S3 upload option.
  • Built-in Mailer — SMTP integration for verification, password reset, magic link emails.
  • Collections — Schema-defined record types with fields, validations, and record/admin/auth acce…
  • Embedded JS Engine — JavaScript VM (goja) lets you write hooks in JS without recompiling.
  • Extend as Go Library — Embed PocketBase in a larger Go app, add custom routes and events.
  • File Storage — Local filesystem or S3-compatible storage with access rules.
  • Hooks — Server-side Go or JavaScript hooks that run on CRUD events (OnRecordBeforeCreate…
  • Migrations — JS/Go migration scripts applied on startup.
  • Realtime Subscriptions — SSE-based subscriptions to collection changes.

Developer interfaces

KindMixpanelPocketBase
SDKmixpanel-android, mixpanel-js (browser), mixpanel-node, mixpanel-python, mixpanel-react-native, Mixpanel-swift (iOS)Go API (extend as library), pocketbase (Dart), pocketbase (JS SDK)
RESTMixpanel Ingestion API, Query APIREST API
OTHER—Admin Dashboard, Realtime SSE
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