Dashboards & alerts
Beautiful out-of-the-box dashboards become rigid once you need a metric that doesn't fit Mixpanel's report types.
What people actually say
✕Free plan caps you at 5 saved reports — unlimited reports requires Growth, and signal detection plus impact analysis are layered on top.
Source: Mixpanel pricing page ↗✕The interface is well designed and queries are usually fast, but reviewers report concerns about query performance and caching once datasets get large.
Source: Userpilot, Mixpanel reviews 2026 ↗✕Teams deliberately limit tracking to stay within budget, which defeats the purpose of having comprehensive analytics in the first place.
Source: OpenPanel, Mixpanel pricing 2026 ↗
Metabase or Grafana pointed at your Postgres event store, with a thin React layer for the four dashboards execs actually open daily. Alerts run from Inngest cron jobs into Slack — no signal-detection add-on, no per-seat report cap.