OpenPanel Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

OpenPanel hosting gives you self-hosted product analytics on your own domain, with events, funnels, retention-style cohorts and real-time dashboards. Deploy OpenPanel and xCloud runs the dashboard, API and worker beside private PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and Redis, with tracking served from the same origin so it counts as first-party. You then create the owner account yourself on first visit, since no admin password is generated.

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What is OpenPanel?

Self-hosted OpenPanel is a product analytics platform: an open-source web and product analytics tool with funnels, cohorts, user profiles, session history and real-time dashboards. Its README positions it as an open-source alternative to Mixpanel and as a replacement for Google Analytics, and describes cookieless tracking and SDKs for web, Swift, Kotlin and React Native. It is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and built on Next.js, Fastify, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse and Redis.

On xCloud the template runs OpenPanel 2.3.0 as seven containers pinned by digest: gateway, dashboard, API, worker, PostgreSQL 16, ClickHouse 25.10 and Redis 7.4, with three volumes. xCloud generates the secrets, but no admin login: the first person to register becomes the owner. Email is off until you add SMTP, and the AI assistant and Slack integration are optional extras.

From Sign-Up to Your First Tracked Event In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosted OpenPanel is seven services, three data volumes, generated secrets, a gateway and a certificate. This brings them all up and ends at the onboarding screen.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick OpenPanel from the OneClick catalog. Choose a domain and a target server; the install form has no fields to fill in.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We start OpenPanel 2.3.0 with an nginx gateway, PostgreSQL 16, ClickHouse 25.10 and Redis 7.4, all pinned by digest, mount three named volumes and generate the cookie secret and database passwords.
Step 03
Create The Owner Account
Open /onboarding on your domain straight away: the first account becomes the owner, and then registration closes. Create a project, install the tracking snippet with your /api URL, and watch the event land in Realtime.

Everything OpenPanel Does, On Your Own Server

The official OpenPanel images run here unmodified, with every event kept in a ClickHouse database on your own server.

Funnels, Cohorts And Profiles
Upstream lists funnels, cohorts, user profiles and session history, so you can follow a visitor's path as well as page counts.
Real-Time Dashboards
Live data updates and interactive charts, with the Realtime view fed over WebSockets that the gateway proxies for you.
Cookieless Tracking
Upstream describes cookieless tracking by default, and serving the API at /api on your own domain keeps requests first-party.
Web And Mobile SDKs
SDKs for web, Swift, Kotlin and React Native, plus an event API, send data to your own endpoint instead of a vendor's cloud.
Custom Dashboards
Build your own charts and dashboards from events, and set event- or funnel-based notifications on them.
Three Private Data Stores
PostgreSQL holds accounts and projects, ClickHouse holds events and Redis holds queues; none of them publishes a host port.

Everything You Need To Run Your Analytics 24/7

Hosting for OpenPanel, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

OpenPanel 2.3.0 deployed instantly
Seven images pinned by digest
Private PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Redis
First-party tracking on your domain
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With OpenPanel

Track product events without a vendor cloud
A SaaS team sends signups, upgrades and feature clicks to its own /api endpoint, then answers retention questions in dashboards built on data that never leaves its server.
Measure funnels from signup to purchase
A growth marketer builds a funnel across the signup flow and sees where visitors drop off, using events from the web SDK and the server-side API.
Replace a site-wide analytics tag
A site owner swaps a third-party tag for first-party tracking served from their own domain, with real-time dashboards showing who is on the site right now.
Track a mobile app next to the website
A small team sends events from an iOS, Android or React Native app and the web app to the same instance, so one project holds the whole customer path.

OpenPanel vs Alternatives

Mixpanel: OpenPanel's README presents it as an open-source alternative to Mixpanel. Here it runs on your own VPS, with funnels, cohorts and profiles built from events kept in your own ClickHouse.
Google Analytics: OpenPanel's README calls it a Google Analytics replacement, and this template serves its tracking API at /api on your own domain, so tracking requests stay first-party.
Plausible: Plausible is another analytics app in the OneClick catalog. OpenPanel's own scope covers web and product analytics together: funnels, cohorts, user profiles, session history and event-based notifications.
PostHog: Another product analytics platform that teams compare with OpenPanel. This page makes no feature comparison; judge it on the events and funnels your product needs.
Rybbit: Rybbit is a further analytics app in the OneClick catalog. OpenPanel ships SDKs for web, Swift, Kotlin and React Native, so one instance can track a website and a mobile app together.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for OpenPanel hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Below what seven containers need — not recommended.

$24.99per month

6 GB RAM
4 vCPU cores
100 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Cloud VPS 16 GB

Cloud VPS 24 GB

Higher event volume and longer ClickHouse retention.

$84.99per month

24 GB RAM
8 vCPU cores
300 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. OpenPanel itself is free under the AGPL-3.0 licence.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Own Your Product Data?

OpenPanel on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Is OpenPanel free to self-host?

Yes. OpenPanel is open source under the GNU AGPL v3, so the software has no licence fee. If you modify a deployed version, the licence requires you to provide the corresponding source. Your xCloud bill is for the server and its provisioning, not the software.

What does OpenPanel need to run?

The manifest asks for 3072 MB of RAM, 2 CPU cores and 20 GB of disk. Seven containers measured 2258 MB resident at idle in QA, before real event volume, so this page sells the 16 GB tier. Event volume, retention and query concurrency decide how much more you need.

Why does OpenPanel use ClickHouse?

Events, sessions and profiles live in ClickHouse, while PostgreSQL holds accounts, organizations, projects and configuration, and Redis holds sessions and job queues. The template runs all three privately, with no host ports. ClickHouse is capped at roughly 1.6 GB per query and two threads.

How do I self-host OpenPanel with Docker?

OpenPanel Docker hosting on xCloud starts the official dashboard, API and worker images plus an nginx gateway and the three data services for you. OpenPanel cloud hosting here means your own VPS: only the gateway binds to localhost, behind xCloud's HTTPS, with no compose file to write.

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How do I upgrade OpenPanel?

Manually, because all seven images are pinned by digest and a catalog re-sync only affects new installs. Back up all three volumes, read the release notes, keep the volume names and recreate the containers without down -v. The API migrates on every start, so a rollback may need the old volumes.

Is OpenPanel a good Mixpanel alternative?

Its README positions it as one, with funnels, cohorts, profiles and session history. Whether it fits depends on the Mixpanel features you rely on, which this page does not compare. Self-hosting means the events sit in your own ClickHouse instead of a vendor's cloud.

Does OpenPanel use cookies?

Upstream describes its tracking as cookieless by default, and the template serves the tracking API from your own domain at /api, so requests are first-party. Dashboard sign-in still uses sessions held in Redis. Product analytics can hold personal data, so set consent and retention yourself.

Which SDKs does OpenPanel support?

The README lists SDKs for web, Swift, Kotlin and React Native, plus an event API for server-side tracking. Point each SDK's apiUrl at your own https://your-domain/api and use a client ID from the project. A client ID on the wrong origin silently records nothing.

Who owns analytics data on a self-hosted OpenPanel?

You do. Events sit in the ClickHouse volume and accounts in the PostgreSQL volume of your own server, and the official images run unmodified. xCloud runs the server and deployment only, and you decide the retention and who can access the dashboards.

What should I back up for OpenPanel?

All three volumes as one set: openpanel_postgres_data for accounts and projects, openpanel_clickhouse_data for events, and openpanel_redis_data for session and queue state. Stop the services before a filesystem snapshot, or use native database backups, and test a restore in an isolated copy.

Backups in xCloud

How do I sign in, and does email work?

Open /onboarding and create the first account at once; it becomes the owner, and registration then closes. There is no generated admin password. Invitation and reset emails stay in the API container log until you set SMTP or Resend values in the Environment editor and redeploy.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.