Countly vs June
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentCountly compared with June
June is a lightweight, opinionated analytics layer for B2B SaaS that gives you company-level reports out of the box with minimal setup. Countly is a heavier platform covering mobile, crash reporting, push, and surveys, with a self-hosted option. A small SaaS team that wants useful reports on Friday afternoon should look at June; a team shipping a mobile app under a compliance constraint should look at Countly. There is very little overlap in the buyers.
Choose Countly if
Mobile and multi-platform product teams with a data residency, regulatory, or sovereignty constraint that rules out sending raw events to a US cloud, and teams that want analytics, push, surveys, and A/B testing from one server instead of four vendors.
Choose June if
Historically: seed to Series A B2B SaaS teams that needed account-level usage analytics fast, without a data team or a tracking plan, and that already ran Segment. As of 2026 the honest answer is that it is not for anyone, because the product no longer exists; the profile is retained for teams evaluating its successors or planning a migration off it.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Countly | June |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Product Analytics | Product Analytics |
| Starting price | Free if self-hosted (Lite); managed Flex starts at $175 per month (free plan available) | No longer sold (product wound down 8 August 2025); the last published self-serve price was $149 per month on the Growth plan before it was retired in October 2024 (free trial) |
| Pricing model | Three editions. Countly Lite is free and open source under AGPLv3, self-hosted, and limited to the aggregate analytics layer. Countly Flex is a managed private cloud priced by monthly active users and data points, with a base Advanced Analytics plan and two paid capability bundles (Adaptivity and Intelligence) added on top. Countly Enterprise is a self-hosted commercial license with all capabilities included, priced by quote and billed annually. | Historic. June began with a freemium model (free up to roughly 1,000 active users, Growth at $149 per month, custom pricing above that). In October 2024 it removed the free plan and moved to a single all-in-one plan, quote-only, tiered by monthly active users, with every feature included at every tier and a 14-day trial. The product wound down on 8 August 2025 and is no longer sold; no current price exists. |
| Free plan | Countly Lite is free forever but self-hosted, and excludes drill, funnels, cohorts, and user profiles. The free tier that previously existed on the hosted Flex plan was removed in 2026. | No |
| Free trial | 14 days on Flex (credit card required); demo environment for Enterprise | Historically 14 days on the all-in-one plan; no trial is available now |
| Best for | Mobile and multi-platform product teams with a data residency, regulatory, or sovereignty constraint that rules out sending raw events to a US cloud, and teams that want analytics, push, surveys, and A/B testing from one server instead of four vendors. | Historically: seed to Series A B2B SaaS teams that needed account-level usage analytics fast, without a data team or a tracking plan, and that already ran Segment. As of 2026 the honest answer is that it is not for anyone, because the product no longer exists; the profile is retained for teams evaluating its successors or planning a migration off it. |
| Setup time | A Flex instance and a first SDK integration can be live in a day. Self-hosting Lite or Enterprise is a genuine infrastructure project: provisioning, MongoDB, TLS, backups, and upgrade planning, typically a few days for someone who has done it before and longer for someone who has not. The instrumentation work, deciding which events to fire and what properties to attach, is the part that takes weeks regardless of edition. | Historically the fastest in the category: connecting an existing Segment, RudderStack, or Freshpaint source produced auto-generated reports within minutes, and a direct SDK install was an afternoon. Getting company-level reporting right took longer, since it required engineering to send group calls with the right traits. |
| Learning curve | Moderate. The aggregate dashboards are readable immediately. The harder skill is event design, because Countly rewards a small number of well-segmented events and punishes a sprawl of one-off event names; Data Manager exists precisely because most teams get this wrong first. Operators of self-hosted deployments need MongoDB familiarity as an ongoing requirement, not a one-time one. | Low by design. The templated reports meant most users never had to learn a query builder, and the vocabulary (active companies, power users, slipping away) mapped onto questions teams already asked. June AI's SQL editor was the only surface that assumed technical skill. |
| Platforms | iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, Android, Web (JavaScript SDK), React Native, Flutter, Cordova, Ionic, Unity and Unreal, Desktop (Windows, macOS, Linux), Node.js, Java, .NET, Python, PHP, IoT and connected devices | Web application (SaaS), JavaScript and React SDKs, Node, Python, and Ruby server SDKs, HTTP API, Segment, RudderStack, and Freshpaint as CDP sources |
| Compliance | GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA-capable when self-hosted, COPPA, ISO 27001 | GDPR, SOC 2 (report provided on request), DPA available |
| Founded | 2013 | 2020 |
| Headquarters | London, United Kingdom | San Francisco, California (distributed team, largely European) |
| Ownership | Independent, bootstrapped (Countly Ltd, registered in England and Wales) | Acquired by Amplitude (2025); standalone product discontinued |
Strengths and limitations
Countly
Strengths
- Genuine self-hosting, including a free open source edition, which very few product analytics tools still offer credibly.
- Analytics and engagement in one system: a cohort defined from behavior is immediately addressable by push, in-app message, survey, or journey.
- Breadth across mobile, web, desktop, and IoT from one server, with mature first-party SDKs on all of them.
- Crash reporting with symbolication built in, so app stability and product behavior share a single app version and device breakdown.
Limitations
- The hosted free tier was removed in 2026, so the cheapest managed entry point is now $175 per month, which puts Countly out of reach for many small teams that would have trialled it.
- Lite lacks the granular data store, so funnels, cohorts, drill, flows, and user profiles are simply absent from the free edition. This is the single most misunderstood thing about Countly.
- On Flex, funnels and cohorts sit in the paid Intelligence bundle rather than the base plan, so the real cost of a comparable analytics setup is above the advertised entry price.
- Self-hosting means operating MongoDB. Reviewers repeatedly report friction with the Docker image, memory pressure, and incompatibility with some managed MongoDB providers, and the minimum viable server is larger than teams expect once push notifications are enabled.
June
Strengths
- The company-level data model was genuinely differentiated: B2B retention, expansion, and churn questions answered at the account level by default rather than by workaround.
- Time to first insight was measured in minutes because reports were auto-generated from templates on connection rather than built from an empty canvas.
- It fitted the existing stack instead of replacing it, reading from Segment, RudderStack, or Freshpaint rather than demanding fresh instrumentation.
- Slack alerts and CRM write-back put usage signals in front of sales and customer success, who are the people who act on them.
Limitations
- The product no longer exists. June wound down on 8 August 2025, signups are closed, and the website now serves an acquisition notice; the YC profile lists the company as inactive.
- Data was not retained indefinitely after the wind-down: customers had a thirty-day export window, so a team that missed it has no route back to its historical event data.
- Company-level reporting depended on correctly implemented group calls. Where engineering had not sent group traits, June fell back to inferring accounts from email domain, which broke for customers using consumer email addresses or multiple domains.
- No session replay, no feature flags, no experimentation, and no in-app guides, so June was always one tool among several rather than a platform.
Pricing compared
Countly
Three editions. Countly Lite is free and open source under AGPLv3, self-hosted, and limited to the aggregate analytics layer. Countly Flex is a managed private cloud priced by monthly active users and data points, with a base Advanced Analytics plan and two paid capability bundles (Adaptivity and Intelligence) added on top. Countly Enterprise is a self-hosted commercial license with all capabilities included, priced by quote and billed annually.
- Lite$0
- FlexFrom $175
- EnterpriseCustom quote
Countly's value depends almost entirely on which edition you are talking about. Self-hosted Lite is one of the few genuinely capable free analytics servers, and for a team with infrastructure skills it delivers sessions, events, crashes, and push for the price of a VM. Managed Flex is not cheap at $175 per month for a base plan that excludes funnels and cohorts, and against Mixpanel's or PostHog's free and low tiers it loses on price outright. What you are actually buying at that price is isolation: your own instance, your choice of region, and no shared multi-tenant store. If data residency is a requirement rather than a preference, that premium is the whole point and it is reasonable. If it is not, the hosted incumbents give more analytics per dollar.
June
Historic. June began with a freemium model (free up to roughly 1,000 active users, Growth at $149 per month, custom pricing above that). In October 2024 it removed the free plan and moved to a single all-in-one plan, quote-only, tiered by monthly active users, with every feature included at every tier and a 14-day trial. The product wound down on 8 August 2025 and is no longer sold; no current price exists.
- Free (retired October 2024)$0
- Growth (retired October 2024)$149
- All-in-one (October 2024 to August 2025)Quote only
For its first four years June was one of the best value purchases in product analytics for small B2B SaaS: $149 a month bought account-level retention and adoption reporting that would otherwise have meant an Amplitude or Mixpanel contract plus a data person to configure it. That value evaporated in two steps. The October 2024 move to quote-only pricing aimed at companies above $1M ARR removed the segment the tool was best for, and the August 2025 wind-down removed the product. Any team currently budgeting for June should redirect the line item; the vendor-recommended destination is Amplitude, and the closest self-serve substitutes for the company-level model are Mixpanel with group analytics enabled or PostHog with a group type configured.
Editorial verdict on each
Countly
Countly is the answer to a specific question: what do you use when the behavioral data cannot leave your control? On that question it is one of a very small number of credible options, and it goes further than its self-hosted peers by putting push notifications, in-app content, surveys, A/B testing, and crash reporting on the same server as the analytics, so a cohort you define is a cohort you can message. Thirteen years of independent, bootstrapped development shows in the breadth of the SDKs and the seriousness of the governance tooling. The problem is the middle of the market. The 2026 removal of the Flex free tier and a $175 per month entry price that still excludes funnels and cohorts means a small business without a data residency requirement will get more analytics for less money from Mixpanel, PostHog, or Amplitude, and a small business with no operations capability should not casually take on self-hosted MongoDB. Buy Countly when regulation, sovereignty, or vendor consolidation on mobile is the actual constraint. If it is not, buy something cheaper.
Read the full Countly profileJune
June was a good product with a real idea: in B2B SaaS the account is the unit that renews, so the account should be the unit the analytics tool reasons about, and reports should exist before anyone asks for them. For four years that combination made it the most sensible product analytics purchase a small B2B software company could make, and its support and speed-to-insight earned it a review record most vendors would envy. None of that is buyable now. The company removed its free plan in October 2024 to chase customers above $1M ARR, then wound the product down entirely on 8 August 2025 when the founding team joined Amplitude, leaving customers a thirty-day export window. This profile exists as a record and a migration aid rather than a recommendation: if you are here because a spreadsheet still lists June as a vendor, the line item should be closed and the tracking code removed, and the realistic replacements are Amplitude if you want the documented path, or PostHog and Mixpanel if you want June's old price point and are willing to configure account-level analysis yourself.
Read the full June profileCountly profile last reviewed 2026-08-23; June last reviewed 2026-08-23. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.