PostHog vs Swetrix comparison

Compare pricing, deployment, product fit, integrations, and capabilities side by side.

Catalog capabilities may require a paid plan, add-on or hosted edition. “Not listed” means unverified here, not unavailable. Confirm the exact edition, usage limits and privacy settings.

Starting prices use different billing periods and usage units. Compare the same traffic, events, retention and seats.

Which platform fits your needs?

Choose PostHog if

Developers and product teams who want analytics, replay, experimentation, and feature delivery in a single toolchain

Capabilities listed only for PostHog in this selection

E-commerce tracking App analytics Free plan Revenue tracking Heatmaps Surveys AI insights Retention analytics Cohort analysis

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.

Choose Swetrix if

Privacy-conscious website, product, and engineering teams that want analytics with performance, errors, replay, and optional self-hosting

Capabilities listed only for Swetrix in this selection

Privacy-first Cookieless Ad-blocker resistant Web analytics

Important considerations: Cloud has no permanent free plan and the trial requires a payment method. Replay, feature flags, and A/B testing require Plus; self-hosting shifts upgrades, storage, security, and backups to your team.

Shared capabilities

Self-hosted Open source GDPR compliant Real-time data Event tracking Behavior analytics Funnels Error tracking Audience insights User segments Session recordings A/B testing Goals Data ownership Data export Integrations Custom reports Enterprise

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Attribute	PostHog	Swetrix
Overview	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.	A privacy-focused, open-source web analytics platform with cookieless traffic and event reporting, funnels, performance and error monitoring, session analysis, replay, feature flags, and A/B testing in cloud or self-hosted editions.
Pricing	Cloud product analytics includes 1M events/month free, then starts at $0.00005 per event; other products have separate usage-based free tiers	Cloud Standard starts at €17/month and Plus at €35/month for 100,000 monthly events; annual billing saves 17%, and VAT may apply. A 14-day trial requires a payment method. Enterprise is custom; self-hosted Community Edition is free.
Deployment	Self-hosted and hosted options	Self-hosted and hosted options
Best for	Developers and product teams who want analytics, replay, experimentation, and feature delivery in a single toolchain	Privacy-conscious website, product, and engineering teams that want analytics with performance, errors, replay, and optional self-hosting
Operator	PostHog Inc. Independent private company	Swetrix Ltd Independent private company
Company base	Distributed organization	Edinburgh, United Kingdom · United Kingdom
Organization scale	215 team members · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026	No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed.
Recent direction	AI-assisted analysis Recent official evidence shows a focus on AI-assisted analysis.	privacy-focused analytics Recent official evidence shows a focus on privacy-focused analytics.
Key features	Self-hosted Session recordings A/B testing Feature flags Surveys Open source Real-time analytics Custom event tracking Integrations Data export	Cookieless web analytics Events, goals, and funnels Real-time dashboard Performance monitoring Error tracking Session and user-profile analysis Session replay on Plus Feature flags and A/B testing API and data export Self-hosted Community Edition
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.	Cloud has no permanent free plan and the trial requires a payment method. Replay, feature flags, and A/B testing require Plus; self-hosting shifts upgrades, storage, security, and backups to your team.
Integrations	Slack, Zapier, Segment	Google Analytics import, WordPress, Google Tag Manager, REST API
Fact check	We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30.	We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30.

Capability matrix

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	PostHog	Swetrix
A/B testing	Listed	Listed
Ad-blocker resistant	Not listed	Listed
AI insights	Listed	Not listed
App analytics	Listed	Not listed
Audience insights	Listed	Listed
Behavior analytics	Listed	Listed
Cohort analysis	Listed	Not listed
Cookieless	Not listed	Listed
Custom reports	Listed	Listed
Data export	Listed	Listed
Data ownership	Listed	Listed
E-commerce tracking	Listed	Not listed
Enterprise	Listed	Listed
Error tracking	Listed	Listed
Event tracking	Listed	Listed
Free plan	Listed	Not listed
Funnels	Listed	Listed
GDPR compliant	Listed	Listed
Goals	Listed	Listed
Heatmaps	Listed	Not listed
Integrations	Listed	Listed
Open source	Listed	Listed
Privacy-first	Not listed	Listed
Real-time data	Listed	Listed
Retention analytics	Listed	Not listed
Revenue tracking	Listed	Not listed
Self-hosted	Listed	Listed
Session recordings	Listed	Listed
Surveys	Listed	Not listed
User segments	Listed	Listed
Web analytics	Not listed	Listed

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