Head to head
5 of 12 recorded facts differ. Everything below is source-reported with a capture date. Niched has not published a buyer verdict for this pair, so nothing here declares a winner. A winner only exists inside a defined buyer niche with stated constraints.
OpenPanel is an open-source web and product analytics platform, an open-source alternative to Mixpanel with optional self-hosting. openpanel is open source, written primarily in TypeScript, released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. Its repository has 6.3K GitHub stars and 401 forks, and was last committed to within the last two months. Niched places it in Product analytics.
Visit ↗Trench — Open-Source Analytics Infrastructure. A single production-ready Docker image built on ClickHouse, Kafka, and Node.js for tracking events. Easily build product analytics dashboards, LLM RAGs, observability platfo. trench is open source, written primarily in TypeScript, released under MIT License. Its repository has 1.6K GitHub stars and 64 forks, and was last committed to about 4 months ago. Niched places it in Product analytics.
Visit ↗| Fact | openpanel | trench |
|---|---|---|
| Official SDK installs, 30 days | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| SDK evidence captured | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| GitHub stars | 6.3K | 1.6K |
| Forks | 401 | 64 |
| Open issues | 77 | 3 |
| Last commit | 24 days ago | 4 months ago |
| Primary language | TypeScript | TypeScript |
| License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | MIT License |
| Open source | Yes | Yes |
| Pricing model | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| Founded | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| Categories | Not recorded | Not recorded |