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Umami vs Omni
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Umami and Omni — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Umami vs Omni: at a glance
What is Umami?
Umami v3.1.0 ships custom dashboards and session replay on top of the v3 rewrite.
v3.1.0 is the headline: Boards (custom dashboards composed on a row/column canvas), Session Replay, Web Vitals performance tracking, a redesigned share page, and a long fix list. Underneath sit a December stretch of CVE patches across both v3 and v2 lines (Next.js security update), and the November v3.0.0 launch that established the new UI and architecture.
What is Omni?
Omni races to make AI a governed, GA-grade layer of the BI stack.
Omni is a BI and analytics platform shipping weekly release notes. Recent work splits across three fronts: embedding AI throughout the product (AI Hub now GA, AI skills with access grants, AI file uploads), hardening the modeling and compute layer (calculation pushdown, compute routing, sketch-based approximate aggregates), and maturing the API and embedding surface (publish-document API, OAuth for the CLI, embed timezone overrides, Notion and Slack integrations).
Umami vs Omni: editorial side-by-side
Umami
3.8ANALYTICS
Umami v3.1.0 ships custom dashboards and session replay on top of the v3 rewrite.
◆ Current state
v3.1.0 is the headline: Boards (custom dashboards composed on a row/column canvas), Session Replay, Web Vitals performance tracking, a redesigned share page, and a long fix list. Underneath sit a December stretch of CVE patches across both v3 and v2 lines (Next.js security update), and the November v3.0.0 launch that established the new UI and architecture.
◆ Where it's heading
Umami is moving past privacy-friendly pageview counting toward full product analytics — Boards turns it into a build-your-own dashboard tool, Session Replay adds qualitative behavior data, and Web Vitals brings performance into the same surface. The v3 rewrite was the foundation; v3.1 is where the surface area starts widening.
◆ Prediction
Expect deeper Session Replay tooling next — privacy filters, search/filter across replays, integration with Boards. Funnels and cohort analysis are the natural follow-ons given the dashboard composition primitive. The maintained v2 line will likely shrink to security-only patches.
Omni
6.3ANALYTICS
Omni races to make AI a governed, GA-grade layer of the BI stack.
◆ Current state
Omni is a BI and analytics platform shipping weekly release notes. Recent work splits across three fronts: embedding AI throughout the product (AI Hub now GA, AI skills with access grants, AI file uploads), hardening the modeling and compute layer (calculation pushdown, compute routing, sketch-based approximate aggregates), and maturing the API and embedding surface (publish-document API, OAuth for the CLI, embed timezone overrides, Notion and Slack integrations).
◆ Where it's heading
Omni is building AI as a first-class layer of the analytics stack while laying the compute-routing and pushdown plumbing that lets those AI features run cheaply at scale. The cadence is high and steady, and the AI work is increasingly paired with governance controls rather than shipped raw.
◆ Prediction
Expect AI Hub to accumulate more governed skills and the compute-routing and approximate-aggregate work to expand, pointing toward AI-driven analysis that is both access-controlled and performance-tuned.
Alternatives to Umami and Omni
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 Umami or Omni.
Fulcrum
Fulcrum is in steady maintenance mode, polishing its field-mapping and mobile data-capture core.
Lightdash
Lightdash keeps sanding down the edges of self-serve BI, chart by chart.
Apify
Apify is rebuilding the Actor platform as MCP-first agent infrastructure.
Apache Superset
Duplicate Apache Superset row — same Helm-chart packaging feed, no distinct product signal
Apache Superset
Superset's public feed is all Helm-chart packaging — the 6.x product work sits behind release votes
Recent activity from Umami and Omni
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 5d agoOmniAI file uploads, Notion integration, dashboard spacers and dividers
- 5d agoOmniCalculation pushdown, dynamic top-N modeling, embed timezone overrides
- 11d agoOmniPublish-document API, approximate aggregates, map viewport config
- 26d agoOmniAI Hub reaches GA; AI skills gain access-grant controls ⚡
- 1mo agoOmniCompute routing support, calculated-field drilling, OAuth for Omni CLI
- 1mo agoOmniSchema refresh improvements and assorted API updates
- 2mo agoUmamiv3.1.0 ⚡
- 2mo agoUmamiGitHub error page captured
- 6mo agoUmamiv3.0.3 — Next.js CVE patch
- 6mo agoUmamiv2.20.2 — Next.js CVE patch (v2 line)
- 6mo agoUmamiv2.20.1 — Next.js CVE follow-up + Docker fix
- 6mo agoUmamiv2.20.0 — Next.js CVE patch
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Umami and Omni?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Omni is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 3.8), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Umami better than Omni?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Omni is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 3.8), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
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.
What are the best alternatives to Omni?
Top Omni alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Omni alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/omni for the full list with editorial commentary on each.