PostHog
Public facts onlyOpen source core, paid extras. The core is under an OSI-approved licence; some features ship in separately licensed commercial add-ons. Not fully open source. Source code · Website
Shows how people use your website or app, with session recordings, heatmaps, feature rollouts, A/B tests, surveys and error tracking. (reviewed by BenchLytix)
Licence, summarised from its LICENSE file: MIT outside the ee/ directory, which is under a commercial licence. LICENSE file, read 2026-10-13.
Running it yourself
We have no supporting services on record from this project's setup files, so we give no hosting estimate. Check the project's own requirements. You need a server, or an IT provider who runs one for you.
What this label rests on
Licence, last update and source code, from public records. We have not run it.
Facts and where they come from
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Licence identifiers | MIT + commercial add-ons | GitHub repositoryfetched 2026-10-13 |
| GitHub stars | 40,248 | GitHub repositoryfetched 2026-10-13 |
| Contributors | 592 | GitHub repositoryfetched 2026-10-13 |
| Last update to the code | 2026-10-13 | GitHub repositoryfetched 2026-10-13 |
| Commits by month | 2025-11: 1106 · 2025-12: 1350 · 2026-01: 1616 · 2026-02: 2149 · 2026-03: 2586 · 2026-04: 2801 · 2026-05: 2285 · 2026-06: 4562 · 2026-07: 5097 · 2026-08: 4814 · 2026-09: 6111 · 2026-10: 2602 | awesome-selfhosted listing (counted from GitHub)fetched 2026-10-13 |
| Archived | No | GitHub repositoryfetched 2026-10-13 |
| Docker Hub image | posthog/posthog: 34,570,243 pulls, updated 2026-10-13 | Docker Hubfetched 2026-10-13 |
| Platforms | Python | awesome-selfhosted listingfetched 2026-10-13 |
| Described as an alternative to | Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap, HotJar, Optimizely | awesome-selfhosted listingfetched 2026-10-13 |
| Listing description | Product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and a/b testing that you can self-host (alternative to Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap, HotJar, Optimizely). | awesome-selfhosted listingfetched 2026-10-13 |
| Website | https://posthog.com | awesome-selfhosted listingfetched 2026-10-13 |
Not on record: Current release, Connectors in its directory, API documentation, Single sign-on documentation, External services it needs.
Licence class is derived from the licence identifiers above, never typed by hand. How
Editorial notes
- What it does
- Shows how people use your website or app, with session recordings, heatmaps, feature rollouts, A/B tests, surveys and error tracking.
- Drafted by AI from GitHub repository, reviewed by a person on 2026-10-13
- Goals it fits
- Product analytics, Forms and surveys, Monitor servers and apps, Monitor your AI app's model calls, Customer messaging
- Drafted by AI from GitHub repository, reviewed by a person on 2026-10-13
- Known gaps
- The self-hosted hobby install is described as scaling to about 100k events per month, after which the project recommends moving to its paid cloud. No customer support or guarantees for self-hosted installs. Recommends 4GB memory.
- Drafted by AI from GitHub repository, reviewed by a person on 2026-10-13
Editorial, not measured. Every note was reviewed by BenchLytix before this record was published.