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Amplitude sells software that helps organizations connect users’ actions in digital products with business outcomes. Teams use its AI Analytics Platform to understand user behavior, test product changes and personalize experiences. Despite its broader range of tools, Amplitude Analytics generates substantially all of its revenue.

Customers pay subscriptions priced by the functionality they need and the contracted volume of tracked actions or users. They often start with one use case, then expand their subscriptions across teams and digital products. Larger customer accounts supply most recurring subscription business, but no single customer dominates revenue. The business depends on customers renewing and expanding subscriptions, alongside winning new paying customers.

Amplitude relies on AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its platform. Privacy and data-protection laws govern how it handles personal data, including international transfers, while export controls and sanctions restrict where and to whom it can provide services.

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Amplitude’s results hinge on winning and expanding digital-analytics subscriptions against specialists including Mixpanel, Posthog and Contentsquare, none of which appears in this list.

  • Twilio’s Segment challenges Amplitude’s customer-data tools: businesses use Segment to combine customer journey data into profiles and personalize engagement, while Amplitude sells tools to analyze user behavior and improve digital experiences. Watch Segment’s audience-creation and personalization offerings for pressure on this part of Amplitude’s platform.

  • Datadog overlaps with Amplitude in tools businesses buy to understand digital-product users, through product analytics and user-experience monitoring that compete with Amplitude’s analytics and session replay. Its Product Analytics offering, launched in 2025 alongside its broader cloud-application monitoring software, is the product to watch.

  • Braze and Amplitude both draw on spending to understand and personalize digital customer engagement: brands pay Braze to act on customer events with personalized interactions, while Amplitude analyzes those events and helps improve experiences. Braze customers adding messaging channels or subscription products offer a concrete signal of spending on this shared area.

  • Alphabet’s Google Analytics competes with Amplitude for web and marketing analytics users, but analytics is only a small part of Alphabet’s broader business. Google Services earns mainly from advertisers, so Google Analytics product news is more relevant to this rivalry than its advertising results.

  • Amplitude depends on Amazon’s AWS for the computing, storage and bandwidth that run its platform, with $294.8 million in minimum purchases remaining at December 31, 2025, through March 2031. AWS outages or changes in service terms can disrupt Amplitude’s service to subscribers or raise its costs.

Agenda

in 10 daysThu, Oct 29

  1. Time to be announced

    Amazon.Com Inc earningsAMZN

    Amazon’s report will show how AWS, the cloud provider Amplitude relies on to run its platform, is faring as a business.

in 16 daysWed, Nov 4

  1. Time to be announced

    Datadog, Inc. earningsDDOG

    Datadog’s report may show whether businesses are adopting its newer Product Analytics alongside monitoring tools, a direct test of competition for Amplitude.

in 17 daysThu, Nov 5

  1. Time to be announced
    Major

    Amplitude, Inc. earningsThis company

    Amplitude sells subscriptions, and this report will show whether new customers are adding to revenue as existing customers expand or leave.

in 50 daysTue, Dec 8

  1. Time to be announced

    Braze, Inc. earningsBRZE

    Braze’s report can show whether brands are adding paid tools for personalized engagement, spending in an area connected to Amplitude’s analytics and digital-experience products.