# Amplitude vs PostHog

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** PostHog

| Attribute | Amplitude | PostHog |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 45.4 (71% (medium)) | 68.5 (63% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 1 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 40,256 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 16,555,591 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Amplitude is a product analytics platform that enables teams to understand user behavior through analytics, session replay, and experimentation. It integrates AI-powered features for automated analysis and includes capabilities for product, marketing, and business operations. It is indexed under Product Analytics Software.","source":"https://amplitude.com","question":"What is Amplitude?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Amplitude offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Free, Plus, Growth and Enterprise. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://amplitude.com","question":"Is Amplitude free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Amplitude supports the web, iOS, Android and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://amplitude.com","question":"What platforms does Amplitude support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Amplitude, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://amplitude.com","question":"Can Amplitude be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 11 integrations for Amplitude, including Hightouch, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Databricks, Postgres, HubSpot and Claude, plus 3 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://amplitude.com","question":"What does Amplitude integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed HIPAA and GDPR for Amplitude. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Amplitude not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://amplitude.com/blog/ai-impact-customer-privacy-legal-compliance","question":"What security certifications does Amplitude have?","confidence":0.7}]` | `[{"answer":"All-in-one platform providing product analytics, web tracking, session recording, feature testing, experimentation, error tracking, and a managed data warehouse with integrations to unify customer data and insights for product development teams. It is indexed under Product Analytics Software.","source":"https://posthog.com/handbook/engineering/feature-pricing","question":"What is PostHog?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"PostHog is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the (Apache-2.0 AND MIT) licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://posthog.com/handbook/engineering/feature-pricing","question":"Is PostHog free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"PostHog supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://posthog.com/handbook/engineering/feature-pricing","question":"What platforms does PostHog support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. PostHog can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://posthog.com/handbook/engineering/feature-pricing","question":"Can PostHog be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 4 integrations for PostHog, including Stripe, Postgres, HubSpot and Vercel. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://posthog.com/handbook/engineering/feature-pricing","question":"What does PostHog integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for PostHog. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as PostHog not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://trust.posthog.com","question":"What security certifications does PostHog have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. PostHog is published under the (Apache-2.0 AND MIT) licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://www.npmjs.com/package/posthog-js","question":"Is PostHog open source?","confidence":0.85},{"answer":"PostHog is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://posthog.com/handbook/engineering/feature-pricing","question":"Where is PostHog available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A product analytics platform that helps product teams investigate user behavior, track key metrics like retention and funnels, and make data-driven decisions. It emphasizes privacy-by-design with built-in compliance controls for GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA, and includes an AI assistant that can pull context from your other tools. | All-in-one platform providing product analytics, web tracking, session recording, feature testing, experimentation, error tracking, and a managed data warehouse with integrations to unify customer data and insights for product development teams. |
| features.capabilities | `{"funnels":true,"hosting":"cloud","free_tier":true,"ab_testing":true,"api_access":true,"autocapture":true,"sdk_coverage":true,"feature_flags":true,"paths_journeys":true,"session_replay":true,"analytics_scope":"product_analytics","retention_cohort":true,"warehouse_native":true,"eu_data_residency":false}` | `{"funnels":true,"hosting":"cloud","free_tier":true,"ab_testing":true,"api_access":true,"sql_editor":true,"autocapture":true,"sdk_coverage":true,"data_modeling":true,"feature_flags":true,"self_hostable":true,"session_replay":true,"visualizations":true,"analytics_scope":"product_analytics","retention_cohort":true,"warehouse_native":true,"eu_data_residency":true,"scheduled_reports":true,"self_serve_dashboards":true}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | 120 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Hightouch"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"Google BigQuery"},{"name":"Amazon Redshift"},{"name":"Databricks"},{"name":"Postgres"},{"name":"HubSpot"},{"name":"Claude"},{"name":"Cursor"},{"name":"Google Ads","category":"ad_network"},{"name":"Facebook Ads","category":"ad_network"},{"name":"Jira","native":true,"category":"project_management","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Confluence","native":true,"category":"documentation","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Linear","native":true,"category":"project_management","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Notion","native":true,"category":"documentation","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Slack","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"GitHub","native":true,"category":"version_control","direction":"inbound"},{"name":"Atlassian","native":true,"category":"project_management","direction":"bidirectional"}]` | `[{"name":"Stripe"},{"name":"Postgres"},{"name":"HubSpot"},{"name":"Vercel"},{"name":"Slack","native":true,"category":"chat","direction":"outbound"},{"name":"GitHub","direction":"inbound"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Python |
| license.spdx | - | (Apache-2.0 AND MIT) |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"Free: 2M events/month forever","features":["AI Agents and MCP","Basic Product Analytics","Cohort syncs (one-time)","2000 AI feedback records/month","10K monthly session replays","Limited Experiments, Guides & Surveys","500 active AI Visibility prompts","Amplitude AI","Session Replay","Experimentation","Guides and Surveys","Activation"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Forever free tier with 2M events/month","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"events":"2M/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Plus","summary":"Plus: 2M free + usage-based, up to 70M events/month","features":["First 2M events/month free","Custom events and formulas","Scale up to 70M events/month","20 Behavioral cohorts","Alerts","Heatmaps","1000 active AI Visibility prompts","2-year data retention"],"description":"Small teams finding product-market fit. 2M free events + usage-based pricing.","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"events":"Up to 70M/month"}},{"free":false,"name":"Growth","summary":"Growth: Custom event-based pricing","features":["Advanced Behavioral Exploration","Currency conversion","Monitoring and Alerts","20K monthly session replays","2500 active AI Visibility prompts","SSO & Project Permissions"],"description":"Businesses looking to scale with custom event-based pricing","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Enterprise: Contact sales","description":"For larger enterprises","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Free: 2M events/month forever. Plus: 2M free + usage-based. Growth/Enterprise: Contact sales for custom pricing.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://amplitude.com","retrievedAt":"2026-08-05T13:21:37.376Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Free","summary":"1M events/mo, $0","features":["unlimited team members"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"1 million events per month with unlimited team members","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"logs":"10GB","events":"1M/mo","exceptions":"100k","recordings":"5k","flag_requests":"1M","survey_responses":"1500"}},{"free":false,"name":"Paid","summary":"$0.00031/event","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"event"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.00031,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Usage-based pricing per event","contactSales":false}],"summary":"Free tier: 1M events/mo. Paid: $0.00031/event.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://posthog.com/handbook/engineering/feature-pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-10-13T15:09:27.235Z","startingPrice":{"unit":"event","amount":0.00031,"currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":0.00031,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/desktop-v0.61.686","date":"2026-10-13T02:00:25Z","type":"stable","version":"desktop-v0.61.686"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-v2.4.263","date":"2026-10-13T13:50:10Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-v2.4.263"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3025.0","date":"2026-10-13T13:57:03Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3025.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3024.0","date":"2026-10-13T13:38:31Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3024.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3023.0","date":"2026-10-13T13:20:16Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3023.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3022.0","date":"2026-10-13T13:14:32Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3022.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3021.0","date":"2026-10-13T13:03:08Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3021.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3020.0","date":"2026-10-13T12:38:29Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3020.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3019.0","date":"2026-10-13T12:33:26Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3019.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3018.0","date":"2026-10-13T12:22:45Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3018.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3017.0","date":"2026-10-13T12:11:37Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3017.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3016.0","date":"2026-10-13T12:01:35Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3016.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3015.0","date":"2026-10-13T11:49:34Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3015.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3014.0","date":"2026-10-13T11:41:44Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3014.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3013.0","date":"2026-10-13T11:33:33Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3013.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3012.0","date":"2026-10-13T11:19:18Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3012.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3011.0","date":"2026-10-13T11:00:57Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3011.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3010.0","date":"2026-10-13T10:55:09Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3010.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3009.0","date":"2026-10-13T10:00:34Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3009.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/agent-skills-v0.3008.0","date":"2026-10-13T09:53:25Z","type":"stable","version":"agent-skills-v0.3008.0"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.certifications | `[{"name":"EU-US Data Privacy Framework","status":"active","auditor":"U.S. Department of Commerce"}]` | `[{"name":"SOC 2 Type II","level":"Type II","status":"active"}]` |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.scorecard | - | 4.6 |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.trust_center | https://amplitude.com/amplitude-security-and-privacy | https://posthog.com/handbook/company/security |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=hogql-parser&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` |

## Capabilities (Product Analytics Software)

| Capability | Amplitude | PostHog |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Analytics scope | Product analytics | Product analytics |
| **Capture** |  |  |
| Autocapture (no-code event capture) | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Analyses** |  |  |
| Funnels | ✓ | ✓ |
| Retention / cohort analysis | ✓ | ✓ |
| Paths / user journeys | ✓ | - |
| Session replay | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Experimentation** |  |  |
| A/B testing & experimentation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Feature flags built-in | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Data** |  |  |
| Warehouse-native / BYODB | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Self-hostable / OSS core | - | ✓ |
| **Pricing** |  |  |
| Free tier | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Compliance** |  |  |
| EU data residency option | ✗ | ✓ |
| **SDKs** |  |  |
| Server-side + mobile SDK coverage | ✓ | ✓ |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:46:41.179Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*