Posthog Vs Plausible

Quick Verdict These tools solve different problems. Plausible is a lightweight Google Analytics replacement for websites — simple dashboards, privacy-first, minimal resources. PostHog is a full product analytics platform with session replays, feature flags, and A/B testing for software teams. Most self-hosters want Plausible. SaaS builders want PostHog. Overview Plausible (launched 2019) is a privacy-focused web analytics tool built on Elixir and ClickHouse. It tracks pageviews, referrers, and top pages without cookies. The entire dashboard fits on one screen. The Community Edition is self-hostable under AGPL-3.0. PostHog (launched 2020) is an open-source product analytics platform. It combines event tracking, session recordings, feature flags, A/B testing, user surveys, and a data warehouse. It runs on ClickHouse, Kafka/Redpanda, PostgreSQL, Redis, and ~20 Docker containers. Licensed under MIT for self-hosted. Both use ClickHouse for data storage, but that's where the similarity ends.