June vs Kissmetrics
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 assessmentJune compared with Kissmetrics
Both answer person-level and cohort questions rather than pageview counting, but they come from different eras and different buyers. Kissmetrics is older, ecommerce and marketing-funnel oriented, and organised around individual customer journeys and revenue attribution. June was B2B SaaS and organised around the account. For a subscription software company the June model was the better fit; for a transactional store, Kissmetrics addresses questions June was never built for.
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.
Choose Kissmetrics if
Small SaaS and ecommerce teams that need person-level analytics (identity resolution, funnels, cohorts, and revenue attribution) without an analytics engineer, and that want transparent event-based pricing with a free tier rather than a sales call.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | June | Kissmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Product Analytics | Product Analytics |
| Starting price | 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) | Free for 100,000 events per month; paid plans from $99 per month ($79 per month billed annually) (free plan available) |
| Pricing model | 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. | Usage-based on monthly tracked events, with the per-event rate falling as volume rises. A permanently free workspace covers 100,000 events a month with three seats. Paid plans start at Growth and step through Silver and Gold rate bands automatically as volume grows, with a negotiated Custom band above 5 million events. Annual billing takes a flat 20 percent off. |
| Free plan | No | 100,000 events per month, 3 seats, autocapture, dashboards, live view, AI chat, and the core funnel, cohort, and activity reports |
| Free trial | Historically 14 days on the all-in-one plan; no trial is available now | No time-limited trial; the free workspace is the trial, and no card is required |
| Best for | 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. | Small SaaS and ecommerce teams that need person-level analytics (identity resolution, funnels, cohorts, and revenue attribution) without an analytics engineer, and that want transparent event-based pricing with a free tier rather than a sales call. |
| Setup time | 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. | Minutes for the snippet and first data, with autoconfiguration proposing dashboards on the same day. Budget one to two weeks of part-time work to define custom events, set event roles, and connect billing before the revenue reports are trustworthy. |
| Learning curve | 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. | Low for reading dashboards and asking questions through the AI chat. Moderate for the part that actually decides data quality: naming events consistently, assigning roles, and calling identify at the right moment so anonymous history aliases cleanly. |
| Platforms | Web application (SaaS), JavaScript and React SDKs, Node, Python, and Ruby server SDKs, HTTP API, Segment, RudderStack, and Freshpaint as CDP sources | Web (JavaScript snippet), Google Tag Manager, Segment, iOS SDK, Android SDK, Server-side APIs, Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, WordPress |
| Compliance | GDPR, SOC 2 (report provided on request), DPA available | GDPR, CCPA |
| Founded | 2020 | 2008 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California (distributed team, largely European) | Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States |
| Ownership | Acquired by Amplitude (2025); standalone product discontinued | Privately held by Kissmetrics Holding Inc. after a 2023 sale and a 2025 merger with Sandstorm Analytics |
Strengths and limitations
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.
Kissmetrics
Strengths
- Person-level identity resolution is the original design, not a feature bolted on, so cross-device journeys and pre-signup history hold together properly.
- Autocapture plus autoconfiguration removes the instrumentation project that historically kept product analytics out of reach for small teams.
- Revenue attribution is a first-class report rather than an integration, which makes the tool legible to founders and marketers, not only analysts.
- Transparent published per-event pricing with a falling unit rate, no quote required until 5 million events a month.
Limitations
- The company is small and has changed ownership twice since 2023 (an Acquire.com sale in 2023, then a merger with Sandstorm Analytics in 2025), so continuity is a real diligence question rather than a formality.
- The public review base is thin and largely dated; recent third-party evidence about the rebuilt platform is scarce compared with Mixpanel, Amplitude, or PostHog.
- No session replay or heatmaps, so diagnosing why a step fails requires a second tool alongside it.
- Autocapture makes the event meter move quickly, and overages roll onto the next invoice automatically rather than pausing collection.
Pricing compared
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.
Kissmetrics
Usage-based on monthly tracked events, with the per-event rate falling as volume rises. A permanently free workspace covers 100,000 events a month with three seats. Paid plans start at Growth and step through Silver and Gold rate bands automatically as volume grows, with a negotiated Custom band above 5 million events. Annual billing takes a flat 20 percent off.
- Free$0
- Growth$99
- Silver$0.15
- Gold$0.10
- CustomNegotiated
Per-event pricing that halves between the entry band and the volume band is one of the more honest models in product analytics, and a free 100,000-event workspace with real reports beats most competitors' trial offers. At $99 a month a small SaaS team gets identity resolution, funnels, cohorts, and revenue attribution that would cost several times more from Amplitude or Mixpanel at comparable functionality. The risk you are pricing in is vendor scale rather than sticker: this is a small company that has changed hands twice, so weigh portability, export, and the size of the support organization as part of the cost.
Editorial verdict on each
June
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 profileKissmetrics
Kissmetrics has an unusual profile: a well-known name attached to a small independent company running a substantially rebuilt product. The core idea, that analytics should follow a person from first anonymous visit through to revenue, is still the right one, and the 2025 relaunch fixed the historical objection by making autocapture and autoconfiguration do the instrumentation work a small team never had time for. Pricing is genuinely small-business friendly: a free 100,000-event workspace with real reports, $99 a month to unlock Populations and the full query surface, and a unit rate that halves at volume without a sales call. What you give up is scale of vendor. There is no replay, the integration catalogue is about thirty connections, recent independent reviews are scarce, and the company has changed hands twice in three years. Buy it if revenue attribution and person-level funnels are the questions you need answered this quarter and you would rather spend $99 than $900; do your diligence on continuity and export before it becomes the system of record for your growth numbers.
Read the full Kissmetrics profileJune profile last reviewed 2026-08-23; Kissmetrics last reviewed 2026-08-23. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.