Mixpanel has a ways to go to scale well
February 19, 2018

Mixpanel has a ways to go to scale well

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 3 out of 10
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Enterprise

Overall Satisfaction with Mixpanel

Mixpanel is being used by our organization to determine the utilization of our products. The entire organization uses some part of Mixpanel in order to get a sense of how each user is engaging with our products, which content is the most appropriate among other things that are relevant for the business.

Pros

  • Mixpanel has a really strong Live View that provides good set of properties visible to the user.
  • Mixpanel has a pretty quick feedback loop with live streaming.
  • Mixpanel supports Enterprise Clients with a good Solutions Architect.

Cons

  • Mixpanel API is pretty terrible. It is not set up to scale well.
  • Mixpanel has really spotty customer service. Depending on the day they care about their customers.
  • Mixpanel is not built well to integrate with other data sources.
  • Mixpanel has not really yielded a positive ROI in our organization. Each event stored is very expensive.
  • Additionally, Mixpanel requires significant time investment to learn their proprietary systems (e.g. JQL).
  • Finally, poor upstream Mixpanel implementations create alot of catch up.
Very much like Treasure Data SDK much better than Mixpanel. Set up for query-ability along with an actual response from the API to ensure that Mixpanel has received confirmation of completion.
Mixpanel is well suited for a small organization that wants to use the service to get a sense of users but is OK with the fact that it is primarily Javascript based for querying (JQL). I would not recommend Mixpanel to any data-centric organization with enterprise level needs in the organization.

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