Overview
The short version
Mixpanel: Mixpanel is a product-analytics platform centered on events and user properties, with funnels, retention, cohorts and flows. Pricing is based on tracked events or monthly tracked users depending on plan, with a free tier. It is mainly aimed at analyzing behavior inside apps.
OnyxMetric: a paid web and product analytics platform with cookieless tracking, session replay on the Pro tier, funnels, retention, goals, events, Web Vitals, error tracking, feature flags and experiments, Google Search Console data and an MCP server for AI assistants. Pricing is per site per month: Base $99, Plus $199, Pro $299.
Mixpanel fits best when: Product teams that run deep event analysis, cohorts and user-property segmentation in an app.
Feature comparison
| Feature | OnyxMetric | Mixpanel |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per site per month: Base $99, Plus $199, Pro $299. Yearly is 10x monthly. | Free tier, then event-based plans. |
| Cookieless by default | No cookies, no consent banner for analytics. | Uses browser storage for identity by default. |
| Session replay | Included on the Pro tier. | |
| Funnels | ||
| Retention | ||
| Web Vitals | ||
| Error tracking |
Mixpanel details reflect public information at time of writing and may have changed. Confirm on the Mixpanel site. A dash means partial or optional. Rows with no verified data for a product are omitted.
Which one should you pick?
Choose Mixpanel if
- Your main question is in-app behavior across many custom events.
- You want mature cohort and flow analysis and a large analyst-facing query surface.
- Event-based pricing fits your volume.
Choose OnyxMetric if
- Website traffic, sources and Web Vitals out of the box, not only custom events.
- Error tracking and replay (Pro) in the same place as funnels.
- Cookieless tracking and a fixed per-site price.
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