Compare pricing, deployment, product fit, integrations, and capabilities side by side.
Engineering and product teams that need self-hosted replay, debugging context, and product analytics
Important considerations: Cloud Free includes 2 users, 1 project, and 7-day retention. Paid Serverless includes unlimited users and projects with 30-day retention. Self-hosting requires your own infrastructure; Dedicated costs depend on the instance, region, and running time.
Developers and product teams who want analytics, replay, experimentation, and feature delivery in a single toolchain
Important considerations: Each PostHog product has separate usage metering. Self-hosting is open source but positioned for hobbyist use and requires substantial operational work.
| Attribute | OpenReplay | PostHog |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | An open-source session replay and product analytics platform that can run on your infrastructure, combining replays with errors, network activity, performance data, funnels, journeys, heatmaps, web analytics, and co-browsing. | 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 | Open-source self-hosting is free. Cloud Free: 1,000 sessions/month; Serverless: $5.95 per 1,000 sessions/month; Dedicated: from $199/month, billed hourly; Enterprise: custom. | 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 | Engineering and product teams that need self-hosted replay, debugging context, and product analytics | Developers and product teams who want analytics, replay, experimentation, and feature delivery in a single toolchain |
| Operator | Asayer SAS Independent private company | PostHog Inc. Independent private company |
| Company base | Distributed organization | 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 Free includes 2 users, 1 project, and 7-day retention. Paid Serverless includes unlimited users and projects with 30-day retention. Self-hosting requires your own infrastructure; Dedicated costs depend on the instance, region, and running time. | Each PostHog product has separate usage metering. Self-hosting is open source but positioned for hobbyist use and requires substantial operational work. |
| Integrations | GitHub, Jira, Slack, Sentry, Datadog | Slack, Zapier, Segment |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-04. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. |
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.
| Attribute | OpenReplay | PostHog |
|---|---|---|
| A/B testing | Not 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 | Not listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Enterprise | Listed | Listed |
| Error tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Goals | Not listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Listed | Listed |
| Open source | Listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Not listed |
| Real-time data | Not listed | Listed |
| Retention analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Listed | Listed |
| Surveys | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |