Amplitude vs Sankofa Analytics

Amplitude is a product analytics service with event tracking, conversion funnels, session recordings, and ecommerce tracking. It also provides API access and extended data retention. The platform is listed as API-based. Its Free plan costs nothing and includes up to 2M events per month, 10,000 monthly session replays, and 2,000 AI feedback records; it is billed free forever and requires no credit card. Plus is listed at free, with the first 2M events per month free and a credit card required. It supports up to 70M events, 20 behavioral cohorts, and two-year data retention. Amplitude, the maker, was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.

Sankofa Analytics tracks product events and provides funnels, flows, cohorts, retention analysis, session replay, and heatmaps. Events reach the dashboard within seconds, with stated p95 freshness below 30 seconds, and a funnel drop-off can open its related session replay. Retention curves can be compared by cohort, version, or custom segment. The engine uses ClickHouse-backed event streams and a self-hostable ClickHouse foundation. SDKs are listed for Web, Flutter, React Native, iOS, Android, Java, Go, Node, Python, and CLI. A REST API supports ingestion, decisions, exposures, management, server-to-server flows, and custom pipelines. Plans start with Free at free and paid tiers from $9 a month, priced primarily by event volume. Free includes 50k events and 250 replays monthly, 14-day event retention, one project, three seats, live environment only, three funnels, and one retention cohort. Sankofa states that it uses TLS 1.3 in transit and AES-256-GCM at rest; GDPR is listed as operational.