Mixpanel vs PostHog
Mixpanel and PostHog are both web analytics software. Mixpanel is a commercial product from Mixpanel. PostHog is open source under a license set out in its repository, with 41k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Mixpanel when
- A product team wants to answer questions about what users do inside an app without writing SQL.
- Pick PostHog when
- You build a web or mobile product and want analytics, replay and feature flags in one tool instead of stitching Mixpanel, Hotjar and LaunchDarkly together.
Side by side
Event-based product analytics: funnels, retention, cohorts and user flows, now with session replay, experiments and feature flags.
A product analytics suite covering event analytics, web analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B experiments, error tracking, logs and a data warehouse.
Results depend on a well-planned event tracking scheme, and costs rise with event volume.
Self-hosting is supported only as a hobby deployment and most teams use the paid cloud, where usage-based bills can grow quickly with event volume.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Not published
Python, Django, TypeScript, React, Rust and ClickHouse
Closed source, sold by Mixpanel
Open source, license unclear on GitHub
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
GitHub could not read the license. Check it in the repository before reusing any code.
448 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
41k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 6 years ago, latest release desktop-v0.61.946.
Other comparisons
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.