Posthog by posthog
PostHog is an all-in-one developer platform for building successful products. We offer product analytics, web analytics, session replay, error tracking, feature flags, experimentation, surveys, data warehouse, a CDP, and an AI product assistant to help debug your code, ship features faster, and keep all your usage and customer data in one stack.
About Posthog
From the project's README at github.com/posthog/posthog. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.
Docs - Community - Roadmap - Why PostHog? - Changelog - Bug reports
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Health score breakdown
6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.
Adoption signals
Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.
| Signal | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | 35k | github.com/posthog/posthog |
| GitHub forks | 2.9k | github.com/posthog/posthog |
| Docker Hub pulls | 28M | hub.docker.com / posthog |
| PYPI downloads (last month) | 32M | posthog |
Release & maintenance
Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.
| Project age | 6.4 years | since Jan 2020 |
| Last commit | 5 days ago | Jun 21, 2026 |
| Releases shipped | 354 | last: 5 days ago |
| Security policy | SECURITY.md | declared by maintainers |
Self-hosting cost across providers
Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.
| Provider | Plan | Specs | Monthly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hetzner | CAX11 | 2c · 4GB · 40GB | $4.13 USD | Deploy → |
| vultr | VC2 | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5 USD | Deploy → |
| linode | Nanode 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $5.12 USD | Deploy → |
| digitalocean | Basic Regular 1GB | 1c · 1GB · 25GB | $6 USD | Deploy → |
Security advisories
CVE-2025-1522. What people say on Hacker News
- Postgres FDW: Pushdown is a negotiation
- Show HN: Coding agent where a second agent QAs every PR in a real browser
- PostgreSQL 19 Beta: The Four Features You'll Feel
- Show HN: Connparse, a tool to parse DSNs, URLs, file paths, and cloud storage
- IDF struggles to curb endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media
Replaces these paid SaaS
Posthog is one of the open-source alternatives to:
Ready to self-host Posthog?
Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.
Data last refreshed Jun 21, 2026.
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