Compare Jitsu
Jitsu is an open-source event pipeline under the MIT licence, billed on active events rather than per tracked user, and self-hostable on every tier.
These pages compare it head to head against the five products it comes up against most often. Each one names the cases where the other product is the better choice, because a comparison page written by a vendor is assumed to be biased before it is read, and the only currency it has is evidence of fairness.
Every price on every page comes from that vendor's own published pricing. Where a vendor publishes nothing, the page says so rather than estimating.
The comparisons
Segment bills per tracked user, Jitsu bills per active event. At 50,000 tracked users generating about 5 million events, that is $575 against $219, both at published rates.
Same billing model, so the difference is licence and price. MIT against Elastic License 2.0, and at 5 million events $219 against $995, both published.
Snowplow asks for schemas, a pipeline in your own cloud and a separate warehouse before your first event. Jitsu asks you to open an account. Snowplow publishes no pricing; Jitsu's free tier is permanent at 200,000 active events a month.
PostHog is where data lands. Jitsu is what moves it. Their analytics free tier is larger — 1 million events a month against 200,000 — and most teams should run both.
Hightouch added event collection in 2024. One module of a closed sales-led platform, or the pipe on its own at a published $99.
What running the pipeline yourself actually costs against paying somebody to run it.
What each page contains
Every comparison follows the same structure, so reading two of them is not reading two different arguments.
- A verdict in the first fifteen seconds, naming who should pick which.
- A neutral description of the other product, with no dig in it.
- One argument, stated, evidenced and linked. Not five.
- A feature table with qualified answers rather than ticks and crosses, and rows that say so where the two are equal.
- Cost worked at three volumes, so you can find the row nearest your own bill.
- A section on where the other product is genuinely ahead, named and unhedged.
- What moving would actually involve, including the cases where it is not worth it.
If you are still deciding
There is a ranked list of open-source and self-hosted CDPs that does not put Jitsu first, and Jitsu's own pricing is published for every self-serve volume.