Event collection & tracking pipelines · Jitsu, Inc.

Jitsu

Open-source event collection platform positioned as a self-hostable, developer-friendly alternative to Segment.

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Jitsu is an event collection and routing pipeline built to be a drop-in, open-source alternative to commercial customer data pipelines: it captures track/identify/page events via SDKs and a server-side API, then routes them to warehouses and downstream tools with built-in retries and delivery guarantees. The open-source version is MIT-licensed and free to self-host with no usage limits, while Jitsu Cloud is the managed SaaS equivalent, billed on active events (events that were successfully delivered to at least one destination, as opposed to all captured events, which are unlimited and free). It targets engineering-led teams that want data-pipeline behavior and source-code access similar to RudderStack, without operating a vendor-scale infrastructure team.

At a glance

Vendor Jitsu, Inc.
Pricing model Free tier + paid plans
Free tier Yes
Deployment Cloud, Self-hosted
Open source Yes (MIT)
Best for Engineering-led teams wanting an open-source, self-hostable event pipeline without vendor lock-in.

Pricing

Free tier up to 200K active events/month; Business plan starts at $99/month for 2M active events with metered overage; Open Source self-hosted is free with no limits.

Plan Price Notes
Free $0/month 200K active events/month, up to 1 daily active sync, unlimited connectors/destinations
Business $99/month 2M active events/month, then $40 per additional 1M events; up to 5 monthly syncs, then $20 per extra sync
Enterprise Contact sales Custom event limits, unlimited monthly active syncs, 1-minute sync intervals
Open Source Free, self-hosted MIT licensed, no usage limits, community support

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features

  • Open-source, self-hostable core (MIT license)
  • Server-side and client-side event capture
  • Delivery retries and guarantees
  • Warehouse and destination routing
  • Active-event-based billing (unlimited raw capture)
  • SQL-based event transformation

Integrations

Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026

Head to head

Alternatives

RudderStack Developer-oriented, warehouse-first CDP combining event-stream collection, transformations, and reverse ETL in one open-source-based platform. Twilio Segment Customer data pipeline that collects events once via SDKs and routes them to 700+ downstream tools and warehouses. Snowplow Behavioral data pipeline that creates a fully owned, schema-validated event stream in the customer's own warehouse or lake.

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Terms to know

Event tracking Capturing specific user actions, such as clicks or purchases, as discrete, named pieces of data. Data layer A structured object on a page that exposes site and event data for a tag management system to read. Vendor lock-in The difficulty and cost of switching away from a vendor once an organization is deeply dependent on that vendor's proprietary systems.

Related guides

How to choose an event tracking pipeline The real decision is who owns the event schema and where the raw data lives — a vendor-routed pipeline or one you fully own.