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Mixpanel vs Umami
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Mixpanel and Umami — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Mixpanel vs Umami: at a glance
What is Mixpanel?
Mixpanel is pushing analytics out of its own tab — into Postgres, Slack, and now Glean's assistant.
A dense April run covered three fronts: enterprise administration with Custom Roles and an organization-wide Audit Log, collaboration with threaded comments and a notification center, and data reach with the Postgres Connector reaching general availability. Alerts were reworked with evaluation windows, retroactive simulation, trigger history, and webhooks. The outlier is a Glean integration that exposes Mixpanel as an MCP app inside an enterprise AI assistant.
What is Umami?
Umami spent late 2025 patching Next.js CVEs, then shipped Boards and Session Replay in v3.1.0.
The window splits sharply. Four of six releases are December 2025 patches across the v2 and v3 lines, all responding to the same Next.js and React security advisories plus Docker build breakage — several shipped within days of each other because the first fix updated Next.js without the affected React versions. Then v3.1.0 in April 2026 delivered custom dashboards as Boards, Session Replay, Web Vitals performance tracking, a redesigned share page, and a large batch of fixes.
Mixpanel vs Umami: editorial side-by-side
Mixpanel
0.0ANALYTICSINFRA · APIS
Mixpanel is pushing analytics out of its own tab — into Postgres, Slack, and now Glean's assistant.
◆ Current state
A dense April run covered three fronts: enterprise administration with Custom Roles and an organization-wide Audit Log, collaboration with threaded comments and a notification center, and data reach with the Postgres Connector reaching general availability. Alerts were reworked with evaluation windows, retroactive simulation, trigger history, and webhooks. The outlier is a Glean integration that exposes Mixpanel as an MCP app inside an enterprise AI assistant.
◆ Where it's heading
Mixpanel is treating the query builder as a bottleneck rather than a product, and routing answers to where non-analysts already work. The Postgres Connector attacks the same problem from the other end, pulling transactional data in without ETL so fewer questions require a pipeline first. Custom Roles and the Audit Log are the enterprise prerequisites that make wider distribution sellable to security teams.
◆ Prediction
Expect more assistant-side distribution — additional MCP surfaces or chat clients querying Mixpanel directly — and further first-party connectors that skip the warehouse for common transactional sources.
Umami
0.0ANALYTICS
Umami spent late 2025 patching Next.js CVEs, then shipped Boards and Session Replay in v3.1.0.
◆ Current state
The window splits sharply. Four of six releases are December 2025 patches across the v2 and v3 lines, all responding to the same Next.js and React security advisories plus Docker build breakage — several shipped within days of each other because the first fix updated Next.js without the affected React versions. Then v3.1.0 in April 2026 delivered custom dashboards as Boards, Session Replay, Web Vitals performance tracking, a redesigned share page, and a large batch of fixes.
◆ Where it's heading
The security cluster is a framework dependency showing its cost — an analytics tool inheriting its release schedule from Next.js advisories. v3.1.0 is where product work resumes, and its content is telling: Session Replay and Web Vitals move Umami past pageview counting into behaviour and performance, which is the territory occupied by heavier commercial analytics rather than the lightweight privacy-first tools it grew up alongside.
◆ Prediction
Expect the next releases to build on Boards and Session Replay rather than return to the counting core, since both are new surfaces that arrived with a single release and no follow-up yet.
Alternatives to Mixpanel and Umami
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Mixpanel or Umami.
Holistics
A BI tool extending analytics-as-code to charts while smoothing the point-and-click path
Klipfolio
Dashboard analytics in slow maintenance, with admin controls the only moving part
Basedash
An AI BI tool turning itself into an API other products can build analytics on
ManageEngine ADManager Plus
ADManager Plus opened to third-party identity apps in January, then shipped six months of fixes.
VictoriaMetrics
Five of six VictoriaMetrics entries are scraped GitHub page furniture; one is a real LTS patch.
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Recent activity from Mixpanel and Umami
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 3mo agoUmamiv3.1.0: Boards, Session Replay and Web Vitals ⚡
- 3mo agoMixpanelCustom Roles: Granular project-level permissions
- 3mo agoMixpanelCustom Roles: granular project-level permissions
- 3mo agoMixpanelGlean integration: Mixpanel insights inside your enterprise AI ⚡
- 3mo agoMixpanelComments & Notification Center
- 3mo agoMixpanelPostgres Connector is now Generally Available
- 3mo agoMixpanelPostgres Connector reaches general availability
- 7mo agoUmamiv3.0.3: Next.js security patch
- 7mo agoUmamiv2.20.2: Next.js security patch for the v2 line
- 7mo agoUmamiv2.20.1: React version fix and Docker build repairs
- 7mo agoUmamiv2.20.0: Next.js CVE fix for the v2 line
- 7mo agoUmamiv3.0.2: Next.js RSC vulnerability patch and UI fixes
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Mixpanel and Umami?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Mixpanel and Umami are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Mixpanel better than Umami?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Mixpanel and Umami are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Mixpanel?
Top Mixpanel alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Mixpanel alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/mixpanel for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Umami?
Top Umami alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Umami alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/umami for the full list with editorial commentary on each.