OpenPanel is an open-source Mixpanel-shaped product: events, funnels, retention, replay. People search “OpenPanel alternative” when they wanted a brochure-site counter and got a product OS. Cookie Free Analytics is the cookieless pageview tool — not a smaller OpenPanel.
OpenPanel sells web and product analytics together: custom events, funnels, cohorts, user profiles, session replay, self-host or cloud. Cookieless by default is a real claim. The job is still “what did this user do”, not “did /pricing load after Reject”.
When to pick them
You need funnels across signed-in flows, retention, replay, or a self-hosted Mixpanel stand-in. That is product analytics. Buy OpenPanel, PostHog, or Mixpanel. Not us.
When to pick us
You wanted pageviews, sources, campaigns, and goals on a marketing site — after Reject. Paste our script. Leave OpenPanel inside the product if you already use it.
The honest bit
They have depth we will not ship: replay, cohorts, A/B, a self-host path. Comparing our pageview price to their event stack is a category error. We will not pretend otherwise.
Questions
Is Cookie Free Analytics an OpenPanel alternative?
No, if you use OpenPanel as product analytics. Yes only if someone installed OpenPanel for brochure pageviews and you want a 1 KB cookieless counter instead — pageviews after Reject, from €4, Frankfurt ingest.
Do you publish a traffic-gap figure versus OpenPanel?
No. Run both side by side and compare your own two totals for the same week.
OpenPanel is cookieless too — why pick you?
Same privacy neighbourhood, different job. They go deep on product events and replay. We stay on pageviews, sources, campaigns, and goals. Hobby free with a badge; Starter from €4; Growth from €8. Beacons hit Frankfurt; pageviews sit in Ireland.