Best self-hosted Analytics software in 2026

Analytics is the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics. It is used for the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data.

We track 32 open-source, self-hosted Analytics apps. 27 of them had commits in the last 90 days, 26 can run with Docker, and the most common licenses are AGPL-3.0 (10), MIT (9), Apache-2.0 (6). The most-used languages are Nodejs, Go, Python. Below are the top picks by GitHub stars, followed by every app ranked by stars weighted by maintenance health.

Alternatives to Google AnalyticsAlternatives to MixpanelAlternatives to DatadogAlternatives to HotjarAlternatives to AmplitudeAlternatives to HeapAlternatives to SegmentAlternatives to Fathom AnalyticsAlternatives to TableauAlternatives to Power BIAlternatives to Looker StudioAlternatives to SentryAlternatives to Plausible AnalyticsAlternatives to MatomoAlternatives to UmamiAlternatives to PostHogAlternatives to Metabase

Top 5 by GitHub stars

#AppStarsHealthLast activityLicenseLanguageDocker
1Superset75.5kActive2026-11-09Apache-2.0Python✓
2Metabase50.3kActive2026-11-10AGPL-3.0Java, Docker✓
3Postiz41.6kActive2026-11-09AGPL-3.0Docker✓
4PostHog40.8kActive2026-11-10MITPython–
5Umami40.2kActive2026-10-23MITNodejs, Docker✓
  1. Superset — Modern data exploration and visualization platform.
  2. Metabase — Easy way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data.
  3. Postiz — Schedule posts, track the performance of your content, and manage all your social media accounts in one place (alternative to Buffer, Hootsuite, Sprout Social).
  4. PostHog — Product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and a/b testing that you can self-host (alternative to Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap).
  5. Umami — Simple, fast, privacy-focused (alternative to Google Analytics).

Head-to-head comparisons

Metabase vs SupersetPostiz vs SupersetPostHog vs SupersetMetabase vs PostizMetabase vs PostHogPostHog vs Postiz

All 32 self-hosted Analytics apps

Ranked by GitHub stars weighted by maintenance health.

Superset

Modern data exploration and visualization platform.

Active ★ 75.5k Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Metabase

Easy way for everyone in your company to ask questions and learn from data.

Active ★ 50.3k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Postiz

Schedule posts, track the performance of your content, and manage all your social media accounts in one place (alternative to Buffer, Hootsuite, Sprout Social).

Active ★ 41.6k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

PostHog

Product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and a/b testing that you can self-host (alternative to Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap).

Active ★ 40.8k MIT ~$10/mo

Umami

Simple, fast, privacy-focused (alternative to Google Analytics).

Active ★ 40.2k MIT 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Netron

Visualizer for neural network and machine learning models.

Active ★ 33.7k MIT ~$10/mo

Plausible Analytics

Simple, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics.

Active ★ 29.8k AGPL-3.0 ~$10/mo

Redash

Connect and query your data sources, build dashboards to visualize data and share them with your company.

Active ★ 28.9k BSD-2-Clause 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Matomo

Web analytics that protects your data and your customers' privacy (alternative to Google Analytics).

Active ★ 22k GPL-3.0 ~$10/mo

GoAccess

Real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal.

Active ★ 21.1k GPL-2.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Druid

Distributed, column-oriented, real-time analytics data store.

Active ★ 14.1k Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Rybbit

Web and products analytics that is easy to setup and more intuitive (alternative to Google Analytics).

Active ★ 13.3k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

GoatCounter

Easy web statistics without tracking of personal data.

Active ★ 6.2k EUPL-1.2 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Countly Community Edition

Real time mobile and web analytics, crash reporting and push notifications platform.

Active ★ 5.9k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

RudderStack

Collect, unify, transform, and store your customer data, and route it to a wide range of common, popular marketing, sales, and product tools (alternative to Segment).

Active ★ 4.5k Elastic-2.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Dreeve

Statistics dashboard generated from Strava data.

Active ★ 2.2k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Aptabase

Privacy first and simple analytics for mobile and desktop apps.

Active ★ 1.9k AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Socioboard

Social media management, analytics, and reporting platform supporting nine social media networks out-of-the-box.

Active ★ 1.5k GPL-3.0 ~$10/mo

GoModel

AI gateway written in Go with a unified OpenAI-compatible API for multiple LLM providers, USD cost tracking, budgets, usage analytics, guardrails, caching, and an admin dashboard.

Active ★ 1.3k MIT 🐳 Docker~$40/mo

Shaper

Build Data Dashboards all in SQL. Powered by DuckDB.

Active ★ 1.3k MPL-2.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Daily Stars Explorer

Track GitHub repo trends with daily star insights to see growth and community interest over time.

Active ★ 412 MIT 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Litlyx

All-in-one Analytics Solution. Setup in 30 seconds. Display all your data on an AI-powered dashboard. Fully self-hostable and GDPR compliant.

Maintained ★ 1.7k Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Middleware

Tool designed to help engineering leaders measure and analyze the effectiveness of their teams using the DORA metrics.

Maintained ★ 1.6k Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Offen

Fair, lightweight and open web analytics tool. Gain insights while your users have full access to their data.

Maintained ★ 983 Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Liwan

Privacy-first web analytics.

Active ★ 223 Apache-2.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

EDA

Web application for data analysis and visualization.

Active ★ 214 AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

HitKeep

Privacy-first web analytics with goals, funnels, ecommerce tracking, and team management in a single binary with embedded DuckDB (alternative to Google Analytics, Plausible, Umami).

Active ★ 105 MIT 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Swetrix

Web analytics which track your site's traffic, monitor your site's speed, analyse user sessions and pageflows, see the user flows and more (alternative to Google Analytics).

Active ★ 76 AGPL-3.0 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

d8a.tech

Data collection service that works with your existing Google Analytics setup to capture user activity and send it straight to your own private database.

Active ★ 63 MIT 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

ANALOG

Minimal analytics tool. Tracks events in a span of 10-30 days.

Active ★ 53 MIT 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

Prisme Analytics

Privacy-focused and progressive analytics service based on Grafana.

Maintained ★ 136 AGPL-3.0, MIT 🐳 Docker~$10/mo

AWStats

Generate statistics from web, streaming, ftp or mail server logfiles.

Slowing ★ 439 GPL-3.0 ~$10/mo

Frequently asked questions

What is the best self-hosted Analytics software in 2026?

By GitHub stars, the most popular self-hosted Analytics apps are Superset (75,522 stars), Metabase (50,325 stars), Postiz (41,630 stars). Popularity is only one signal: also check maintenance health, license and whether it fits your setup.

How many self-hosted Analytics apps are actively maintained?

27 of the 32 apps listed had commits in the last 90 days and 4 more in the last 12 months.

Which self-hosted Analytics apps can I run with Docker?

26 of the 32 apps can run with Docker; 6 publish an image on Docker Hub, including Superset, GoAccess, Druid, GoatCounter and Countly Community Edition.

Which licenses do self-hosted Analytics apps use?

The most common licenses in this category are AGPL-3.0 (10 apps), MIT (9 apps), Apache-2.0 (6 apps).

How much does it cost to self-host Analytics software?

The software itself is free to download. Based on our rough hardware estimates, the cheapest suitable VPS plan starts at about $10/month (median $10/month across apps in this category). Several light apps can share one server.

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Figures from GitHub and Docker Hub as of 2026-11-15; hosting costs are rough estimates.