PostHog
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How to Replace PostHogOverview
Features
34 features across 21 categories
AI(2)
Analytics specifically for Large Language Model usage and interactions
AI-powered assistant that answers questions about how people use your product and helps automate data gathering and summarization tasks
Analytics(3)
Analyze data at the group or organization level in addition to individual users
Understand what's happening in your product with native integration to session recordings and autocapture of all clicks and pageviews
Analytics for web properties billed with Product Analytics
Automation(1)
Automate actions based on user behavior with emails and destinations
Data Analysis(1)
Write custom SQL queries against your data
Data Infrastructure(2)
Unlimited rows for initial data warehouse historical syncs
Built-in data warehouse to store and query all your product data
Data Integration(3)
Export data in batches to external destinations
Connect 120+ sources and destinations to sync data in real-time or batch
Send data to destinations in real-time based on triggers
Data Management(1)
User activity feed and CDP-lite functionality for managing customer data
Error Monitoring(1)
Track and monitor exceptions and errors in your application
Experimentation(1)
Run A/B tests and multivariate experiments on your product features
Feature Management(1)
Control feature rollout and run experiments without code deployment
Infrastructure(1)
Route tracking through your own domain to avoid ad blockers
Integration(2)
Programmatic access to PostHog data and functionality
Send data to external systems via webhooks
Logging(1)
Ingest and query application logs
Onboarding(1)
AI-powered installation wizard that installs PostHog with a single prompt
Reporting(1)
Create dashboards and visualize data with built-in BI tools
Security(2)
Google, Github, and Gitlab SSO support for user authentication
Enable two-factor authentication for account security
Segmentation(1)
Create and analyze user cohorts based on properties and behaviors
Tracking(4)
Track events without personally-identifiable information, analyzed in aggregate
Automatically track every click and pageview without manual event definition
Define events retroactively after they've been captured (called 'actions')
Track identified users by email address or unique identifier with custom properties
User Behavior(3)
Session replay capability specifically for mobile applications
Record and replay user sessions to visually see why something happened in your product
View a feed of user activities and interactions
User Management(1)
Store and manage user properties and traits
User Research(1)
Gather user feedback directly from your product
Pricing
Free
- ✓Product Analytics: 1M events/mo
- ✓Session Replay: 5K recordings/mo
- ✓Feature Flags: 1M requests/mo
- ✓Experiments
- ✓Error Tracking: 100K exceptions/mo
- ✓Surveys: 1.5K responses/mo
- ✓Data Warehouse: 1M rows/mo
- ✓Data Pipelines: 10K events/mo + 1M rows
- ✓LLM Analytics: 100K events/mo
- ✓PostHog AI: 2K credits
- ✓Workflows: 10K messages per channel
- ✓Logs: 50GB ingested/mo
- ✓1 project
- ✓1-year data retention
- ✓Unlimited team members
- ✓Community support
- ✓No credit card required
- ✓1 shared resource configuration
- ✓2 managed reverse proxies
Pay-as-you-go
Popular- ✓All free tier features plus:
- ✓6 projects
- ✓7-year data retention
- ✓Email support
- ✓Pricing calculator
- ✓Set billing limits per product
- ✓Product Analytics: $0.00005/event after 1M/mo
- ✓Session Replay: $0.005/recording after 5K/mo
- ✓Mobile Session Replay: $0.01/recording after 2.5K/mo
- ✓Feature Flags: $0.0001/request after 1M/mo
- ✓Surveys: $0.10/response after 1.5K/mo
- ✓Data Warehouse: $0.000015/row after 1M/mo
- ✓Error Tracking: $0.00037/exception after 100K/mo
- ✓PostHog AI: $0.01/credit after 2K/mo
- ✓LLM Analytics: $0.00006/event after 100K/mo
- ✓Logs: $0.25/GB after 50GB/mo
- ✓Realtime Destinations: $0.0005/trigger event after 10K/mo
- ✓Batch Exports: $0.000015/row after 1M/mo
- ✓2 shared resource configurations
- ✓10 managed reverse proxies
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Buying PostHog saves ~$36,960 over 3 years vs building.
Estimates based on 34 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.
Integrations
11 known integrations