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Choose OpenPanel ifDevelopers, SaaS teams, and privacy-conscious businesses that want one open-source system for website and product analytics
Important considerations: Cloud has no permanent general free plan after its 30-day trial. Self-hosting requires a VPS, Docker-based services, database operations, upgrades, email configuration, security, and backups.
Choose PostHog ifDevelopers and product teams who want analytics, replay, experimentation, and feature delivery in a single toolchain
Important considerations: Each cloud product is metered separately. The free MIT self-hosted deployment is officially unsupported, with no customer support or guarantees. Only free-plan features are available there; paid-plan features are Cloud-only.
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| Attribute | OpenPanel | PostHog |
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| Overview | An open-source web and product analytics platform combining cookieless traffic reporting, event analytics, custom dashboards, funnels, retention, revenue tracking, user profiles, session replay, A/B testing, and an optional AI assistant. | A product and web analytics platform for developers that combines usage analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments, surveys, and data tooling in one stack, with both cloud and self-hosted deployment options. |
| Pricing | 30-day cloud trial; cloud starts at $2.50/month for 5,000 events, $20/month for 100,000 events, and scales by event volume; AGPL self-hosting is free | Cloud product analytics includes 1M events/month free, then starts at $0.00005 per event; other products have separate usage-based free tiers |
| Deployment | Self-hosted and hosted options | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Developers, SaaS teams, and privacy-conscious businesses that want one open-source system for website and product analytics | Developers and product teams who want analytics, replay, experimentation, and feature delivery in a single toolchain |
| Operator | OpenPanel AB Independent private company | PostHog Inc. Independent private company |
| Company base | Stockholm, Sweden · European Union | Distributed organization |
| Organization scale | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. | 215 team members · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 |
| Recent direction | product analytics Recent official evidence shows a focus on product analytics. | AI-assisted analysis Recent official evidence shows a focus on AI-assisted analysis. |
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| Important considerations | Cloud has no permanent general free plan after its 30-day trial. Self-hosting requires a VPS, Docker-based services, database operations, upgrades, email configuration, security, and backups. | Each cloud product is metered separately. The free MIT self-hosted deployment is officially unsupported, with no customer support or guarantees. Only free-plan features are available there; paid-plan features are Cloud-only. |
| Integrations | JavaScript, React, Next.js, Vue, Swift, Kotlin, REST API | Slack, Zapier, Segment |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30. |
This matrix shows capabilities recorded in our catalog. Not listed means we have not confirmed the capability here. Check the linked vendor sources for plan, deployment, and usage limits.
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| Attribute | OpenPanel | PostHog |
|---|---|---|
| A/B testing | Listed | Listed |
| AI insights | Listed | Listed |
| App analytics | Listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Listed | Not listed |
| Cohort analysis | Listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Not listed |
| Custom reports | Listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Listed |
| Error tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Not listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Goals | Listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Listed | Listed |
| Open source | Listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Not listed |
| Real-time data | Listed | Listed |
| Retention analytics | Listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Listed | Listed |
| Surveys | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Not listed |