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.

Posthog interface screenshot from project README
analyticspythonreactjavascripttypescriptab-testingexperimentsfeature-flagssession-replayai-analyticscdpdata-warehouse
Verdict 77/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty 28M docker pulls Last release 5 days ago

Self-host Posthog on hetzner for $4.13/mo and save approximately $538/year vs Amplitude.

Health score
77 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
35k
2.9k forks

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.

activity
100
maturity
85
community
82
security
85
sustainability
65
adoption
41

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
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 age6.4 yearssince Jan 2020
Last commit5 days agoJun 21, 2026
Releases shipped354last: 5 days ago
Security policySECURITY.mddeclared by maintainers

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
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

5 known advisories tracked via OSV.dev. Most recent: CVE-2025-1522.

What people say on Hacker News

Replaces these paid SaaS

Posthog is one of the open-source alternatives to:

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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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Frequently asked questions

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