OnRamp vs Amplitude

The short answer: Amplitude is an enterprise product intelligence platform. OnRamp is a focused tool that does one thing - helps you understand and fix mobile app onboarding. If your team is not a dedicated data team and your primary goal is onboarding conversion, OnRamp will get you to insight faster.

See the full side-by-side OnRamp vs Amplitude comparison table for a feature-by-feature breakdown.

Who each tool is built for

Amplitude is designed for product teams and data analysts who want deep behavioural analytics across an entire product - feature adoption, engagement loops, cohort analysis on any dimension. It's powerful but assumes you have the time and expertise to configure it.

OnRamp is designed for mobile app founders and indie developers who need to know why users abandon onboarding. No analysts needed. The funnel, retention, sessions, and journey map are all pre-built around the onboarding use case.

Setup and time-to-insight

Verify Amplitude's current instrumentation, funnel, chart, and delivery workflows in its official documentation and in a proof-of-concept. We do not publish uncited implementation-time comparisons here.

OnRamp uses one OnRamp.step() call per milestone. Verify the resulting reports and any historical-event behaviour in your own application before relying on an implementation-time estimate.

Funnels

Retention

Amplitude has strong retention analysis, but it requires you to define what events count as "active" and build the cohort query manually.

OnRamp's funnel-split retention is a first-class built-in view: users who completed onboarding vs users who dropped off on the same cohort chart. No query needed. This view directly answers "does finishing onboarding make users stick?" - the core question for any mobile team investing in onboarding work.

Pricing

Amplitude's free plan caps at 10M monthly events with limited features. Growth plans start at several hundred dollars per month.

OnRamp offers a 14-day full-feature trial. Pricing is per monthly active user, not event volume - predictable for apps at any scale.

When to choose Amplitude

• You need deep behavioural analytics across your entire product, not just onboarding
• You have a dedicated product analyst or data team
• You need SQL access, data exports, or integrations with a data warehouse
• You're building an enterprise product with complex cohort requirements

When to choose OnRamp

• Your focus is improving onboarding conversion in a mobile app
• You want funnels, retention cohorts, and live sessions without a data analyst
• You want to be live in under 10 minutes
• Privacy and EU data residency matter