Pug vs the alternatives
Honest, side-by-side comparisons — including where each alternative is still the better choice. Pug is open-source product analytics with unified profiles, self-hostable under AGPL-3.0 or free in the cloud beta.
Pug vs PostHog
The open-source PostHog alternative — focused product analytics that self-hosts on a single Go binary.
Read the comparisonPug vs Mixpanel
The same product-analytics shape — trends, funnels, retention, profiles — open source and self-hostable.
Read the comparisonPug vs Amplitude
Autocapture, funnels, retention, and profiles — open source, without event-volume cloud pricing.
Read the comparisonPug vs Heap
The autocapture-first model Heap pioneered — open source, self-hostable, and yours to own.
Read the comparisonPug vs Plausible
Product analytics beyond traffic stats — funnels, retention, and a profile per person.
Read the comparisonPug vs Matomo
Product behavior on a lean Go + ClickHouse stack, not a PHP web-analytics platform.
Read the comparisonPug vs Google Analytics
Own your data instead of sending it to Google — unsampled events, GDPR-friendly, self-hostable.
Read the comparisonFree GA replacement
What GA4’s “free” really costs, and how to migrate to a free, self-hosted tool step by step.
Read the comparisonOwn your product analytics.
Open source, easy to self-host on a single Go binary, and free during open beta. Start a project and see live events in minutes.