Mixpanel pioneered self-serve product analytics for SaaS teams. Sankofa Analytics takes the same mental model — events, funnels, retention, cohorts — and ships it on an open-core ClickHouse spine you can self-host, with session replay included and a wire contract bonded to feature flags, deploys, and surveys.
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Yes. Sankofa Analytics provides funnels, cohorts, retention curves, breakdowns, and session replay — the core feature set Mixpanel teams rely on. The differentiation is that Sankofa runs on an open-core ClickHouse spine you can self-host, and every event automatically carries feature flag state, deploy revision, and Plan ticket links.
Yes. Sankofa is open-core. The same binary that runs Sankofa Cloud runs on your Kubernetes cluster, bare metal, or fully air-gapped. There is no special edition — feature parity between cloud and self-host is a hard constraint.
Sankofa charges per active product tier rather than per monthly tracked user. Annual billing is −20% and bundling multiple products discounts up to −48%. For teams already paying Mixpanel + LaunchDarkly + Sentry, Sankofa typically lands well under half the combined invoice.
No. You can export historical events from Mixpanel via their data warehouse export and replay them into Sankofa to backfill cohorts and retention curves. Sankofa accepts events with arbitrary timestamps, so the migration is a one-time backfill, not a rewrite.
Same SDK contract on every platform. Self-host or use Sankofa Cloud — your call.