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Directory / Analytics / PostHog
PostHog
Product analytics suite with event tracking, session replay, feature flags and experiments.
Will it still be around?
Health 94/100 · Healthy
Activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness. Breakdown
Alternative to
Savings proposal
At $24 a month (Mixpanel Growth), self-hosting PostHog costs more: about $576 a month to run plus $2,880 to set up. It pays off once your Mixpanel bill is above $576 a month, so enter your actual bill.
List price: Mixpanel Growth, billed monthly. Priced by events (about $0.28 per 1,000 after the first million), so enter your actual bill. Source, checked 2026-10-07.
Extra cost over 3 years
$22,752
Pays for itself
Not at this size
Extra cost in year one
$9,504
Each month
$24 → $576
Show as a table
| Month | Mixpanel | Self-hosted | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | $0 | $2,880 | −$2,880 |
| Month 3 | $72 | $4,608 | −$4,536 |
| Month 6 | $144 | $6,336 | −$6,192 |
| Month 9 | $216 | $8,064 | −$7,848 |
| Month 12 | $288 | $9,792 | −$9,504 |
| Month 18 | $432 | $13,248 | −$12,816 |
| Month 24 | $576 | $16,704 | −$16,128 |
| Month 30 | $720 | $20,160 | −$19,440 |
| Month 36 | $864 | $23,616 | −$22,752 |
Assumptions you can change
Self-hosting PostHog usually means several services (analytics store, queues, search). Hours are for one engineer; the server cost is a typical cloud VPS with backups and grows with the number of people using it.
Not included: paid editions or features of PostHog (see What's free?), large data migrations, and compliance work. All amounts in US dollars at list price; your negotiated price may differ.
Health score: 94/100
Activity45% weight
100/100
- Last commit today (100/100).
- 37257 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 50+ releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor30% weight
100/100
- Top contributor wrote 17% of the last 86 commits (past 12 months).
- 30 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness25% weight
77/100
- 67% of all issues are closed (3759 open, 7586 closed) (61/100).
- 26 of 30 recent issues got a reply or were closed (87/100).
Score v2. How the health score works.
License
MIT (core) + commercial ee/ directory · Open source (permissive)
Everything outside ee/ is MIT. Code in ee/ needs a paid PostHog license.
OSI-approved license with few conditions beyond keeping the copyright notice.
License text checked 2026-10-07: read it.
What's free?
Enterprise features many open-core projects keep for paid plans.
| Feature | Self-hosted, free? |
|---|---|
| SSO (SAML) | Unknown |
| SSO (OIDC) | Unknown |
| SCIM provisioning | Unknown |
| Audit logs | Unknown |
| Role-based access control | Unknown |
| Multi-tenancy | Unknown |
We haven't verified which of these features are free for this project yet.
GitHub metrics
| Stars | 40k | Forks | 3.5k |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last commit | today | Commits, 12 months | 37k |
| Releases, 12 months | 50+ | Last release | today |
| Contributors | 391 | Active authors | 30 in last 86 commits |
| Open issues | 3.8k | Closed issues | 7.6k |
Snapshot from 2026-10-08.