| 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 website intelligence suite with cookieless analytics, session recordings, heatmaps, funnels, polls, surveys, company reveal, and AI-assisted reporting. |
| Pricing |
Cloud product analytics includes 1M events/month free, then starts at $0.00005 per event; other products have separate usage-based free tiers | 30-day unlimited trial, then Free Forever; Starter starts at $2.99/month or $2.39/month billed yearly, with higher self-serve and custom tiers |
| Deployment |
Self-hosted and hosted options | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for |
Developers and product teams who want analytics, replay, experimentation, and feature delivery in a single toolchain | Businesses that prioritize data privacy and need advanced analytics tools |
| Operator |
PostHog Inc. Independent private company | Visitor Analytics GmbH Independent private company |
| Company base |
Distributed organization | Berg, Germany · European Union |
| 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. | AI-assisted analysis Recent official evidence shows a focus on AI-assisted analysis. |
| Key features |
- Self-hosted
- Session recordings
- A/B testing
- Feature flags
- Surveys
- Open source
- Real-time analytics
- Custom event tracking
- Integrations
- Data export
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- Cookieless tracking
- Session recordings
- Heatmaps
- Conversion funnels
- Polls
- Surveys
- Real-time analytics
- Data export
- GDPR compliant
- CCPA compliant
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| Important considerations |
Each PostHog product has separate usage metering. Self-hosting is open source but positioned for hobbyist use and requires substantial operational work. | Free and low-cost tiers have small pageview, event, replay, heatmap, funnel, poll, and survey allowances. |
| Integrations |
Slack, Zapier, Segment | WordPress, Wix, TYPO3 |
| 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. |