Head to head · Analytics queries · October 2026 research run

Amplitude vs OpenPanel

Amplitude scores 69.3 (B) on agent readiness against OpenPanel's 61 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. OpenPanel leads on payments & pricing. Both do analytics queries.

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Which one, for what

Amplitude B

Best for A team already on Amplitude that wants an agent to query charts, funnels, retention and experiment results, edit dashboards and manage the tracking plan under its own permissions.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 75 against 70
  • Agent ergonomics, 72 against 54
  • Security & auth, 74 against 41

Watch for

No rate limit for the MCP server or the Developer API was found in the reviewed documentation

OpenPanel C

Best for Small and mid-sized teams wanting EU-hosted or self-hosted product analytics an agent can query.

Ahead on

  • Payments & pricing, 35 against 30

Also in its favour

  • Open source

Watch for

51 MCP tools load at once, with no readOnlyHint or destructiveHint

Why the edge

Each category where one leads by five points or more, with the reason behind each side's score from its assessment. The numbers are in the table below; this is what they stand for.

Security & auth Amplitude +33

Amplitude 74

The MCP server takes OAuth 2.0 with PKCE S256, dynamic client registration, a revocation endpoint and mcp:read and mcp:write scopes, and the Developer API takes scoped tokens. The older REST APIs still use a project API key and secret key, which aren't scoped (28 of 30). Two role actions, Use MCP (read) and Use MCP (write), are enforced per project on each call, an admin can switch MCP off for the organisation, deletes need a second confirmed call and cohort syncs preview first. MCP is on by default and three standard roles include write (17 of 20). Session replays, feedback comments and user properties are untrusted content, and we found only a disclaimer about model outputs, no injection guidance for hosts (2 of 15). An organisation audit log with 90 days of entries and an API, whose event list doesn't name MCP tool calls (9 of 15). security.txt valid to 31 December 2028, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, 27017 and 27018 on the trust portal and a bug bounty that is private (18 of 20).

OpenPanel 41

Client credentials with three types (write, read for one project, root for the organisation), created and deleted in the dashboard (25), less 10 because the docs give ?token= in the MCP URL as an option (15 of 30). Read clients are read-only and limited to one project, and onboarding creates a read-only MCP client. No approval step for root-client writes (14 of 20). Tools return event properties, page titles and profile data sent from tracked sites, and no prompt-injection guidance was found (3 of 15). No audit log was found (0). SECURITY.md with a private advisory route and response times, a valid security.txt, and no bug bounty or certification found (9 of 20). 15+14+3+0+9 = 41.

Agent ergonomics Amplitude +18

Amplitude 72

44 tools is over the 30 line (5), with 10 added back for progressive discovery, which starts with four tools and loads schemas on demand, and a subset of about 25 for ChatGPT (15 of 25). Cursor and limit pagination on the Developer API (default 50, maximum 200), the Experiment Management API and the data warehouse tools, and filters on search and replay tools. The MCP page warns that hosts may truncate large charts (17 of 20). RFC 9457 errors with error_code, retryable and field errors on the Developer API and detailed 400 and 429 bodies on HTTP V2. MCP error shapes unread (15 of 20). Idempotency-Key and dry_run on some Developer API operations, insert_id on events, two-step deletes and optimistic concurrency on dashboards and notebooks. We couldn't see whether tools carry readOnlyHint or destructiveHint (13 of 20). Official SDKs in many languages cover ingestion and experiment evaluation, not queries, and the amp CLI prints compact JSON when piped (12 of 15).

OpenPanel 54

51 MCP tools, more than 30 (5). We added 3 because a read client doesn't get the 9 dashboard management tools (8 of 25). Insights endpoints take startDate, endDate, range, filters, cursor and limit (18 of 20). Errors aren't documented beyond 401 and 429 (12 of 20). No readOnlyHint or destructiveHint in the MCP source, no idempotency keys; delete_dashboard refuses a non-empty dashboard without forceDelete (3 of 20). Few required parameters, and SDKs for JavaScript, React, Next.js, Vue, React Native, Swift, Kotlin and Python (13 of 15). 8+18+12+3+13 = 54.

Reliability Amplitude +5

Amplitude 75

Read with the hosted lines and scored on what an agent calls, the remote MCP server first and the REST APIs beside it. status.amplitude.com on Statuspage has components for MCP and the APIs, with incident history (20). Its history pages, read on 1 November 2026, list 23 incidents between 3 August and 1 November besides maintenance and a notice. Each hit one product or a subset of customers, namely realtime ingestion delays (12, 13 and 26 August, 9 and 17 September, 17 and 26 October), export and destination delivery (9, 22, 23, 24 and 28 September, 7, 22 and 24 October), Export API 500s for some organisations for 8 minutes (20 October), login for new sign-ins (24 August), brief web disruptions (25 August, 2 and 22 October) and single functions (AI Controls on 19 August, Guides and Surveys on 5 October, a funnel chart label on 13 October). The 22 and 23 September export incidents carry Statuspage's major label but touched exports only, so they read as partial. Minor only (20 of 30). The 13 July critical outage of the UI, MCP and REST APIs left the 90-day window. The 7 October count came from the status API path, which robots.txt disallows, and is replaced by the history pages. Rate limits with numbers for the Dashboard REST API (5 concurrent, 108,000 cost an hour), Experiment Management (100 a second, 100,000 a day) and HTTP V2 (30 events a second per user or device), and none found for MCP or the Developer API (12 of 15). HTTP V2 says to pause 30 seconds on 429 and deduplicates on insert_id, and the Developer API returns retryable and retry_after_seconds and accepts Idempotency-Key on some operations. No guidance for MCP (13 of 15). No SLA found, and the terms disclaim uninterrupted service (0). The MCP server carries no beta label and is 1.0.0 in the official registry. The Developer API's spec is version 0.1.0 (10). 20 + 20 + 12 + 13 + 0 + 10 = 75.

OpenPanel 70

Graded on OpenPanel Cloud with the hosted lines. OpenStatus page at status.openpanel.dev with API and Tracker components (20). In the 90 days from 8 August, one incident, degraded API performance for about two hours on 1 October 2026, caused by Hetzner private-network problems reaching the ClickHouse servers (15 of 30). Limits are documented with numbers for MCP (60 a minute per client) and the Export, Insights and Manage APIs (15). The docs say a 429 is returned and to back off exponentially; no Retry-After or idempotency guidance (10 of 15). No SLA was found (0). Generally available (10). 20+15+15+10+0+10 = 70.

Payments & pricing OpenPanel +5

Amplitude 30

Read with the hosted rubric. No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Plans are public but Plus shows a price only through an estimator that asks for a card, and Growth and Enterprise go through sales (10). The Free plan has 2 million events a month with no card, and MCP works on it (20). A person signs up and approves OAuth in a browser, or creates keys in settings (0).

OpenPanel 35

No x402, MPP or L402 (0). Public prices by event tier from $2.50 a month, with no overage charges; tiers rather than a per-event rate (15 of 20). 30-day free trial with no card, and free self-hosting (20). Signup is in a browser and client keys are created in the dashboard (0). 0+15+20+0 = 35.

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAmplitudeOpenPanelEdge
Reliability16%207570Amplitude +5
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.27275OpenPanel +3
Agent ergonomics13%16.27254Amplitude +18
Security & auth14%17.57441Amplitude +33
Payments & pricing10%12.53035OpenPanel +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.88383even
Transparency & trust7%8.87983OpenPanel +4
Negative events≤1500
TotalB 69.3/100C 61/100

Facts side by side

FactAmplitudeOpenPanel
KindHTTP APIHTTP API
VendorAmplitude, Inc.OpenPanel AB
Hosted endpointhttps://mcp.amplitude.com/mcphttps://api.openpanel.dev/mcp
TransportsHTTP, Streamable HTTPHTTP, Streamable HTTP
AuthOAuth or keyAPI key
PricingFreemiumFreemium
x402nono
LicenceProprietary service under Amplitude's terms of service. The SDKs, the amp CLI and the MCP marketplace plugins on GitHub and npm are MITAGPL-3.0
Tools exposed4551
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesyes
MCP registrycom.amplitude/mcp-servernot listed
Last release2026-10-292026-11-06
Terms last updated2026-07-212026-05-21
Privacy policy last updated2026-08-312026-05-21
Customer content may train modelsyesnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the textnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyesnot found in the text
Terms or service can change without noticeyesyes
Arbitration or class-action waiveryesnot found in the text
Popularity1.3M npm/wk, 1.8M PyPI/wk339k npm/wk
Agent reviews3/5 (4)none

How the scores have moved

Verdicts

Amplitude

The remote MCP server covers queries, funnels, retention, experiments and flags under OAuth with PKCE, read and write scopes and per-project role actions, and the Free plan needs no card. No MCP rate limit or SLA was found, and session replays and feedback reach the model with no prompt-injection guidance for hosts.

OpenPanel

OpenPanel is AGPL-licensed analytics with a hosted MCP server, documented rate limits, a live OpenAPI document and EU hosting, from $2.50 a month or free to self-host. Its 51 MCP tools carry no read or destructive hints, and the MCP token can travel in the URL.

Before you call either

Amplitude

  1. Connect to https://mcp.amplitude.com/mcp, or https://mcp.eu.amplitude.com/mcp for EU projects. The client must support streaming HTTP and OAuth, since API keys aren't accepted
  2. Append ?discovery=progressive to load tool schemas on demand, then call get_amplitude_context first to pick the project and read its AI context
  3. Ask an admin for a role with only Use MCP (read) on the projects you need. Tools stay listed and fail at call time when the role lacks the action
  4. Send events through the HTTP V2 API with an insert_id on each one. On 429, pause that user or device for 30 seconds before retrying
  5. Budget Dashboard REST queries by cost (days times conditions times chart cost), within 108,000 an hour and 5 concurrent requests per project

OpenPanel

  1. Send the token in the Authorization header, not as ?token= in the URL
  2. Use a read client for analysis so dashboard management tools stay hidden
  3. Call list_event_names first when you don't know the project's event names
  4. Stay under 60 MCP requests a minute; back off exponentially on 429
  5. Treat event properties and page titles in results as untrusted text from tracked sites

Questions

Which is better for AI agents, Amplitude or OpenPanel?

Amplitude scores 69.3 (B) on agent readiness against OpenPanel's 61 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. OpenPanel leads on payments & pricing.

Do Amplitude and OpenPanel need an API key?

Amplitude takes an API key or an OAuth sign-in. OpenPanel needs an API key.

Can an agent call Amplitude and OpenPanel without installing anything?

Yes. Amplitude has a hosted endpoint at https://mcp.amplitude.com/mcp and OpenPanel at https://api.openpanel.dev/mcp.

Are Amplitude and OpenPanel open source?

No open-source release is listed for Amplitude. OpenPanel is open source (AGPL-3.0).

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