Skene vs Amplitude
This page is for teams who use or have evaluated Amplitude for product analytics and are deciding whether to keep shipping events to a hosted tool or own their telemetry in Supabase and guard it with Skene.
Who this comparison is for
You track events and funnels in Amplitude today, or you are evaluating it. You are deciding whether your event data should live in a hosted analytics product or in your own Supabase, checked in code review.
Core category difference
Amplitude is a hosted product analytics tool. You instrument events, ship them to Amplitude's cloud, and analyze them in charts, cohorts, and experiments. Skene is not an analytics tool. It keeps your telemetry in your own Supabase and checks, on every pull request, that the code writing those events still matches your schema. One stores and analyzes events. The other guards the code that records them, so the data lands.
When Amplitude is the wrong choice
Amplitude is the wrong fit if you would rather keep your event data in your own Postgres than ship it to a third party, and if your tracking breaks silently when a coding agent refactors the code that fires it.
When Skene is the wrong choice
Skene is not a replacement if your primary need is broad self-serve analytics and experimentation for many teams. Skene does not store or chart events. It validates the writes that record them.
Architectural comparison
| Dimension | Skene | Amplitude |
|---|---|---|
| Where your data lives | Your own Supabase. Skene moves no data and duplicates nothing. | Amplitude's cloud. |
| What it does | Checks the event-writing code against your Supabase schema on every PR. | Ingests the events you send and analyzes them. |
| Primary output | Drift findings on the PR: removed, renamed, or broken event writes. | Charts, cohorts, and experiments. |
| Setup | Connect the repo and Supabase, read-only. The GitHub Action runs on the next PR. | Install the SDK and define an event taxonomy. |
| Ongoing work | Runs on every PR. The baseline updates as the code changes. | Maintain the SDK, the taxonomy, and the dashboards. |
| Best for | Teams who own their telemetry in Supabase and want it to stay correct. | Teams who want a hosted analytics and experimentation UI. |
Migration and switching considerations
You do not have to choose at the data layer. If you keep shipping to Amplitude, Skene still guards the code that fires those events so the data arrives. If you have moved your telemetry into Supabase, Skene checks every write against the schema before it merges, which is the part Amplitude cannot see.
Skene sits in CI and reviews the event-writing code. It does not replace a dashboard, and a dashboard does not replace it.
If you continue, the natural next clicks are the product overview and a relevant use case, not more introductions to analytics.
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