Amplitude vs Segment Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Free
- AI Agents and MCP
- Basic Product Analytics
- Cohort syncs (one time)
- 2000 AI feedback records
- 10K monthly session replays
- Limited Experiments, Guides & Surveys
- 500 active AI Visibility prompts
Plus
Popular- AI Agents and MCP
- Scale up to 70M Events
- Custom events and formulas
- 20 Behavioral cohorts
- Alerts
- Heatmaps
- 1,000 active AI Visibility prompts
- 2-year data retention
Growth
- AI Agents and MCP
- Advanced Behavioral Exploration
- Currency conversion
- Monitoring and Alerts
- 20K monthly session replays
- 2,500 active AI Visibility prompts
- SSO & Project Permissions
Enterprise
- AI Agents and MCP
- Unlimited projects per portfolio
- Data Access Controls
- Unlimited Monitoring and Alerts
- 50K monthly session replays
- 5,000 active AI Visibility prompts
- Advanced User Mgmt (incl RBAC)
Customer Data Pipeline
- Collect and unify real-time events with customer data in the warehouse
- Send customer data to 700+ apps
- Govern data for quality and compliance
- Sources
- Destinations
- Functions
- Reverse ETL
- Developer Tools
- Public API
- Protocols
- Monthly tracked users
- Throughput Limit
- Seats
- Payment method
- Contract length
- Email/Web support
- On-demand videos and documentation
- Dedicated Support
- Customer Success Manager
- Advisory Services or Professional Services
- Uptime SLA
- Account security
- Multi-factor authentication
- Single Sign-on
- Granular roles and user permissions
- Certifications
- HIPAA-eligibility
- Regional Segment (EU or US)
Customer Data Platform
- Unify events and warehouse data into governed, identity‑resolved profiles
- Build AI‑powered audiences from a complete customer view
- Activate profiles across tools to power journeys and campaigns
- Sources
- Destinations
- Functions
- Reverse ETL
- Developer Tools
- Public API
- Protocols
- Identity resolution
- Profile API
- Profile Sync
- Profile Explorer UI
- Traits
- Predictive traits
- Recommendation Traits
- Audiences
- Generative Audiences
- Recommendation Audiences
- Predictive Audiences
- Journeys
- Monthly tracked users
- Throughput Limit
- Seats
- Payment method
- Contract length
- Email/Web support
- On-demand videos and documentation
- Dedicated Support
- Customer Success Manager
- Advisory Services or Professional Services
- Uptime SLA
- Account security
- Multi-factor authentication
- Single Sign-on
- Granular roles and user permissions
- Certifications
- HIPAA-eligibility
- Regional Segment (EU or US)
Amplitude vs Segment FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- One or both use custom pricing, so it depends on your specific needs.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Amplitude has a free plan. Segment doesn't — though they do offer a free trial.
- How do they charge?
- Different approach here. Amplitude uses usage-based pricing, while Segment goes with custom. That changes the math depending on your team size and usage.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Amplitude: They're threading the needle between Mixpanel (comparable usage-based model) and more expensive enterprise BI tools — not the cheapest option in product analytics, but the startup discount program signals they're actively trying to win early-stage companies before Mixpanel or PostHog does. The $0 Plus entry point is a direct shot at lowering the barrier to land in growing teams. Segment: Segment sits at the premium end of the CDP market, competing with mParticle and Tealium rather than scrappy challengers like RudderStack. They're going after mid-market and enterprise teams that want a trusted, well-integrated data backbone and are willing to pay for the Twilio ecosystem halo.
Keep tabs on both.
We'll monitor pricing changes for Amplitude and Segment and let you know when something moves.