Compare pricing, deployment, product fit, integrations, and capabilities side by side.
Privacy-conscious site owners, SaaS teams, and agencies that need compact traffic and conversion analytics without session replay
Important considerations: There is no permanent cloud free plan. Self-hosting is an Enterprise license rather than the standard open-source deployment path, and pageviews, events, and session extensions count toward usage.
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 | Pirsch Analytics | PostHog |
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| Overview | A privacy-friendly web analytics service with cookieless visitor measurement, events, goals, session analysis, funnels, revenue metrics, Search Console data, A/B testing, APIs, and an Enterprise self-hosting option. | 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 trial; Standard starts at $6/month and Plus at $12/month for 10,000 monthly pageviews; Enterprise and self-hosted deployment use custom pricing | 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 | Privacy-conscious site owners, SaaS teams, and agencies that need compact traffic and conversion analytics without session replay | Developers and product teams who want analytics, replay, experimentation, and feature delivery in a single toolchain |
| Operator | Emvi Software GmbH Independent private company | PostHog Inc. Independent private company |
| Company base | Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany · European Union | Distributed organization |
| Organization scale | 1 employees · operator, as of 30 Dec 2025 | 215 team members · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 |
| Recent direction | marketing attribution Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution. | AI-assisted analysis Recent official evidence shows a focus on AI-assisted analysis. |
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| Important considerations | There is no permanent cloud free plan. Self-hosting is an Enterprise license rather than the standard open-source deployment path, and pageviews, events, and session extensions count toward usage. | Each PostHog product has separate usage metering. Self-hosting is open source but positioned for hobbyist use and requires substantial operational work. |
| Integrations | Google Search Console, WordPress, REST API, Webhooks, JavaScript and server SDKs | 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 2026-08-08. |
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 | Pirsch Analytics | PostHog |
|---|---|---|
| A/B testing | Listed | Listed |
| AI insights | Not listed | Listed |
| App analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Not listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Listed | Listed |
| Cohort analysis | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Not listed |
| Custom reports | Listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Enterprise | 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 | Not listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Listed |
| SEO research | Listed | Not listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| Surveys | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Not listed |