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PostHog
Open-source product analytics, session recording, feature flags, and A/B testing in one
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Scalability
very high
Performance
high
Learning Curve
easy
Maturity
stable
Languages: Python, TypeScript
Architecture: saas, self-hosted, event-driven
When to Use
- +Product-led growth
- +Privacy requirements
- +All-in-one analytics
When Not to Use
- -Marketing analytics
- -Simple page views
- -Enterprise governance needs
Strengths
- 24k+ stars
- All-in-one platform
- Self-hostable
- Privacy-focused
- Great free tier
Weaknesses
- Self-hosting complexity
- Smaller than Amplitude
- Heavy for simple analytics
Operations
Maintenance
medium
Monitoring
low
Backup/Recovery
moderate
Hosting: self-hosted, cloud, managed
Quick Facts
- Category
- Analytics
- License
- open source
- Pricing
- freemium (free tier)
- Community
- large
- Docs Quality
- excellent
- Trend
- rapidly growing
- Vendor Lock-in
- low
- Data Portability
- moderate
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
startupsmallmediumlarge
Use Cases
- Product analytics
- Session recording
- Feature flags
- A/B testing
- Funnels
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