Statsig Alternatives in 2026 (After the OpenAI / Amplitude Handover)
If you chose Statsig for engineering-first experimentation, the company you signed up with no longer exists in the same form. Here's what happened, what it means for your account, and how to evaluate a replacement — including when staying put is the right call.
What actually happened to Statsig
In September 2025, OpenAI acquired Statsig for about $1.1 billion — primarily for the team, with CEO Vijaye Raji joining as a technology lead in OpenAI's applications group. In May 2026, Amplitude took over the Statsig brand, platform, and customer base, while the original engineering team stayed at OpenAI. In under a year, the product changed owners twice.
This isn't a knock on the product — Statsig's stats engine and UX earned their reputation. It's a practical reality: your experimentation vendor's roadmap, pricing, and data architecture now sit inside Amplitude's strategy, not an independent company's.
Questions to ask before you renew
- •Has Amplitude committed to your current pricing, or is a repricing coming at renewal?
- •Is the warehouse-native (WHN) mode staying first-class, or being folded into Amplitude's own analytics?
- •Where does your experiment data live now, and does that change under Amplitude?
- •What's the migration path if Amplitude sunsets a feature you depend on?
The alternatives, honestly compared
The 2025–26 consolidation wave hit everyone: Eppo went to Datadog, Statsig to OpenAI-then-Amplitude. The independent, warehouse-native options left are few.
| Option | Model | Best for |
|---|---|---|
| Amplitude (ex-Statsig) | Bundled with Amplitude analytics | Teams already standardizing on Amplitude |
| Eppo (by Datadog) | Bundled with Datadog | Existing Datadog shops |
| GrowthBook | Open-source, $40/seat Pro | Teams that want self-host and don't mind per-seat |
| MaxLift | Independent, flat $299, warehouse-native | Teams that want the WHN architecture without a bundle |
When you should just stay
If you're already going all-in on Amplitude for product analytics, keeping experimentation in the same suite is a reasonable consolidation. If you run deep on Datadog, Eppo-by-Datadog is convenient. Switching for its own sake isn't worth it — switch because you want independence, flat pricing, or a warehouse-native architecture the bundles don't prioritize.
What MaxLift is
MaxLift is the independent, warehouse-native option: your metrics are computed in your own Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks — user-level data never leaves your warehouse — at flat pricing, with an OpenFeature-compatible SDK so switching is an afternoon, not a quarter. We built the version of this that answers to experimentation customers, not to an acquirer's bundle.
See it on your own stack
Run a real experiment in 30 days, warehouse-native, with a $500 pilot that's refundable if it doesn't pay for itself 5×.