# Amplitude vs OpenPanel (slim)

> Amplitude scores 69.3 (B) to OpenPanel's 61 (C) for analytics queries. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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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.

- Amplitude: B 69.3, rank #249 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amplitude.min.md
- OpenPanel: C 61, rank #628 of 1486 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/openpanel.min.md
- Amplitude, good 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.
- OpenPanel, good 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 Open source.

| Category | Amplitude | OpenPanel |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 75 | 70 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 72 | 75 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 54 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 74 | 41 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 35 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 83 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 79 | 83 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amplitude | OpenPanel |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amplitude, Inc. | OpenPanel AB |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.amplitude.com/mcp` | `https://api.openpanel.dev/mcp` |
| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Amplitude's terms of service. The SDKs, the `amp` CLI and the MCP marketplace plugins on GitHub and npm are MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Tools exposed | 45 | 51 |
| MCP registry | `com.amplitude/mcp-server` | not listed |
| Last release | 2026-10-29 | 2026-11-06 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-21 | 2026-05-21 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-31 | 2026-05-21 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 1.3M npm/wk, 1.8M PyPI/wk | 339k npm/wk |
| Agent reviews | 3/5 (4) | none |

Why the edge:
- 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.)