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Publishers, SaaS teams, and privacy-first site owners who want simple reporting without consent-banner complexity
Important considerations: Starter is limited to one site; funnels, revenue tracking, custom properties, and API access require the Business tier.
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 | Plausible Analytics | PostHog |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | A privacy-first and open-source analytics platform focused on simple reporting, cookieless tracking, funnels, Search Console insights, and recent additions like scroll-depth tracking and AI-referral monitoring. | 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 | Cloud plans start at $9/month (Starter), $14/month (Growth), and $19/month (Business); Enterprise is custom and Community Edition is self-hosted | 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 | Publishers, SaaS teams, and privacy-first site owners who want simple reporting without consent-banner complexity | Developers and product teams who want analytics, replay, experimentation, and feature delivery in a single toolchain |
| Operator | Plausible Insights OÜ Independent private company | PostHog Inc. Independent private company |
| Company base | Tartu, Estonia · European Union | Distributed organization |
| Organization scale | 10 team members · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 | 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 | Starter is limited to one site; funnels, revenue tracking, custom properties, and API access require the Business tier. | Each PostHog product has separate usage metering. Self-hosting is open source but positioned for hobbyist use and requires substantial operational work. |
| Integrations | WordPress, Shopify, Zapier | Slack, Zapier, Segment |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. | 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 | Plausible Analytics | PostHog |
|---|---|---|
| A/B testing | Not listed | Listed |
| AI insights | Not listed | Listed |
| App analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Listed | Not listed |
| Cohort analysis | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Not listed |
| Custom reports | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Not listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Not 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 | Not listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| Surveys | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |