[lyime]

If you are doing 25,000 of fewer events, you are probably not making much money.

[buro9]

That's not true.

When I looked at MixPanel we were already at more than 8 million page views per month and wanting to track more events than that.

But as we wanted to try MixPanel, the best way was to start by sampling a small number of users and activities.

As our trial of the software progressed we found we got way more value out of sampling a smaller set that we could make sense of rather than measuring everything.

For us, MixPanel became one more tool in a wider toolset. We didn't see the value in jumping up to the paid level as we didn't feel it would replace all of the other tools.

[iyn]

Can you elaborate on the tools in a 'wider toolset'? I'm always eager to learn about new tools/services.

[lubos]

You actually get 200,000 free events if you put their badge on your website. The next tier is 500,000 events for $150/mo.

[alextgordon]

It's not a population of 25k events, but a sample size of 25k.

News organisations pay a lot of money for polls of only 1000-2000 people. 25k data points is quite sufficient in most cases.