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Heap alternatives
4 tools to consider instead of Heap, shown against it.
| Heap | Pendo | Mixpanel | Amplitude | PostHog | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Vendor | Heap (a Contentsquare company) | Pendo.io, Inc. | Mixpanel, Inc. | Amplitude, Inc. | PostHog | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pricing model | Free tier + paid plans | Free tier + paid plans | Free tier + paid plans | Free tier + paid plans | Usage-based | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud | Cloud | Cloud | Cloud, Self-hosted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Open source | No | No | No | No | Yes (MIT) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best for | Teams that want to mine historical user behavior for insights they didn't think to instrument in advance. | Product teams that want to guide users in-app and measure whether the guidance actually worked. | Product and growth teams tracking user engagement and running in-product experiments. | Product teams analyzing user behavior and running experiments at scale. | Product and engineering teams wanting analytics, experimentation and error tracking in one open-source tool. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pricing | Free plan covers up to 10K monthly sessions; paid Growth, Pro and Premier tiers use custom session-based pricing set after a sales conversation.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Free plan caps at 500 MAUs; Base, Core and Ultimate tiers scale with custom MAU volume and are quoted individually; a free AI-native Novus beta runs alongside.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Free plan covers low event volumes; Growth scales with monthly events via an online calculator; Enterprise is custom-quoted.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 19, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Free plan covers 2M events/month; Plus scales with event volume; Growth and Enterprise use custom event-based pricing via sales.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 19, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Every product has a generous monthly free allowance with no credit card required; usage beyond the free tier is billed pay-as-you-go, and the self-hosted version is free and open source.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 19, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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