Our take
Pick Amplitude if product / support teams who will stay on Free at $0 (2 million events / month, no card) while they open a first Topics cluster, then upgrade to Plus (starts at $0, first 2M events free, scales to 70M) when they need custom events and 2-year retention. Pick RudderStack if data teams who will stay on Free at $0 (250K events / month, 10 members, prod-only workspace) while they open a first Live Events
Best for
Amplitude Event clusters you start at $0
RudderStack A warehouse-first event you debug at a public $
Free plan
Amplitude $0 · no credit card. No time limit. 2 million events / month. Unlimited seats. Session replay, feature flags, and AI agents on the tile we fetched
RudderStack $0 · , free forever. 250K events / month. 16 SDK sources. 200+ cloud destinations. Warehouse destinations. Reverse ETL. 10 team members. Prod-only workspace. 3-hour warehouse sync. 1 tracking plan / 5 events
Lowest paid
Amplitude Startups $10
RudderStack Growth $265
Runs where
Amplitude Local or hosted
RudderStack Hosted
Watch out
Amplitude Free caps at 2 million events / month
RudderStack Free is 250K events and a 3-hour warehouse sync
Last checked
Amplitude 2026-10-23 · amplitude.com/pricing
RudderStack 2026-10-23 · rudderstack.com/pricing
product / support teams who will stay on Free at $0 (2 million events / month, no card) while they open a first Topics cluster, then upgrade to Plus (starts at $0, first 2M events free, scales to 70M) when they need custom events and 2-year retention.
Read the Amplitude pagedata teams who will stay on Free at $0 (250K events / month, 10 members, prod-only workspace) while they open a first Live Events debugger, then Growth at $265 when they need 30-minute warehouse sync and two workspaces.
Read the RudderStack page
