Cairn Analytics
Product analytics tells you what users actually do — events, funnels, retention, cohorts. Cairn Analytics is self-hosted product analytics: your events, your warehouse, your dashboards, with no per-event meter.
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A complete app, yours to keep.
Every Cairn Trail ships as a complete, AI-native application — full source in your own repository, a native MCP server, and a first-class CLI. Here’s what Cairn Analytics includes out of the box.
- Event tracking with your own schema
- Funnels, retention, and cohort analysis
- Dashboards over your own warehouse
- Self-hosted — raw event data stays yours
- SQL access to everything you collect
- Native MCP server and CLI for agent-built reports
Every way to get product analytics.
We’d rather you saw the whole map than a sales pitch. Here are the tools teams actually evaluate — what each is good at, said plainly. Cairn is one option among them.
Commercial
Hosted, polished, rented — your data lives on their cloud.Open source
Self-hostable and yours to run — read each license closely.So why Cairn?
Amplitude and Mixpanel are the product-analytics standard — and their usage-based pricing punishes you exactly when you grow. PostHog leads an excellent open-source pack, though several popular alternatives are really web analytics, not product analytics. Cairn Analytics gives you the core event-and-funnel model as code you own, pointed at your own warehouse — instrument once, query with your own agents, and never rent access to your own numbers.
However you get there, Cairn Analytics is software you own — full source in your GitHub repository, running in your own cloud. No phone-home, no license server, no kill switch. Export your data any time; Cairn could disappear tomorrow and your software would keep working.