# Pendo vs PostHog

**Leader by Vioscale score:** PostHog

| Attribute | Pendo | PostHog |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 53 (73% (medium)) | 68.1 (63% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 100 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 1 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 39,230 |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | - | 12,366,207 |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | A cloud-based product experience platform combining behavioral analytics, in-app guidance, session replay, and user feedback capabilities to help teams understand how users interact with their software and drive feature adoption | 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 | `{"free_tier":true,"autocapture":true,"sdk_coverage":true,"self_hostable":false,"paths_journeys":true,"session_replay":true,"analytics_scope":"product_analytics"}` | `{"free_tier":true,"ab_testing":true,"autocapture":true,"sdk_coverage":true,"feature_flags":true,"self_hostable":true,"session_replay":true,"retention_cohort":true,"warehouse_native":true}` |
| integrations.count | 51 | 120 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Algolia"},{"name":"Amazon S3"},{"name":"BigQuery"},{"name":"Breadcrumbs"},{"name":"Calendly"},{"name":"Candu"},{"name":"Catalyst"},{"name":"ChurnZero"},{"name":"Confluence"},{"name":"Crowdin"},{"name":"DataGrail"},{"name":"Dataworkz"},{"name":"Domo"},{"name":"Drift"},{"name":"Figma"},{"name":"Fivetran"},{"name":"Fulcrum"},{"name":"G2"},{"name":"Gainsight"},{"name":"Google Cloud Storage"},{"name":"Help Scout"},{"name":"HelpDocs"},{"name":"HubSpot"},{"name":"Integrately"},{"name":"Intercom"},{"name":"Jira"},{"name":"Looker"},{"name":"Marketo"},{"name":"Microsoft Azure"},{"name":"Okta"},{"name":"Optimizely"},{"name":"Pano"},{"name":"Planhat"},{"name":"Qualtrics"},{"name":"Redshift"},{"name":"Salesforce"},{"name":"Segment"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Snowflake"},{"name":"Swiftype"},{"name":"Tableau"},{"name":"Totango"},{"name":"Tray.io"},{"name":"TrustRadius"},{"name":"UserTesting"},{"name":"Voxpopme"},{"name":"Webhooks"},{"name":"WordPress"},{"name":"Workato"},{"name":"Zapier"}]` | `[{"name":"Stripe"},{"name":"Postgres"},{"name":"HubSpot"},{"name":"Vercel"}]` |
| 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 | `{"ios":true,"web":true,"android":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"subscription","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Base","features":["Product Analytics","In-app Guides"],"description":"Product analytics and basic in-app guidance for teams scaling their product insights","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Core","features":["Product Analytics","In-app Guides","Session Replay"],"description":"Complete visibility into user journeys with analytics, guidance, and session recordings","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Ultimate","features":["Product Analytics","In-app Guides","Session Replay","Sentiment (NPS, PMF, CSAT surveys)","Orchestrate","Listen","Data Sync"],"description":"Enterprise platform with comprehensive analytics, guidance, recordings, feedback analysis, and orchestration capabilities","contactSales":true},{"free":true,"name":"Novus","summary":"Free during open beta","features":["Continuous product monitoring","Proactive recommendations in Slack","AI-generated PRs","Auto-instrumentation via GitHub"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"AI-powered product monitoring with automated insights delivered to Slack and GitHub auto-instrumentation","contactSales":false}],"addOns":[{"name":"Predict"},{"name":"Agent Analytics","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":0,"currency":"USD"}]}],"summary":"Custom MAU-based pricing. Free tier available. Volume-based discounts built into all plans.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://www.pendo.io/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T13:39:13.831Z","freeTrialDays":30}` | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Product Analytics","summary":"$0.00005/event after 1M free events/month","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"event"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.00005,"currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"events":"1000000/mo"}},{"free":true,"name":"Session Replay","summary":"$0.005/recording after 5,000 free recordings/month","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"recording"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.005,"currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"recordings":"5000/mo"}},{"free":true,"name":"Feature Flags","summary":"$0.0001/request after 1M free requests/month","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"request"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.0001,"currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"requests":"1000000/mo"}},{"free":true,"name":"Managed Warehouse","summary":"$0.000015/row after 1M free rows/month","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"row"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.000015,"currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"rows":"1000000/mo"}}],"summary":"Usage-based pricing per product. Free tier available for all products. 98% of customers use PostHog free tier.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://posthog.com/handbook/engineering/feature-pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T12:10:28.636Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | freemium | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | low | low |
| pricing.transparent | no | yes |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/posthog-cli/v0.16.0","date":"2026-08-26T16:54:50Z","type":"stable","version":"posthog-cli/v0.16.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/posthog-cli-latest","date":"2026-08-26T16:55:00Z","type":"stable","version":"posthog-cli-latest"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/hogli-v0.2.0","date":"2026-08-26T14:26:44Z","type":"stable","version":"hogli-v0.2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/hobby-latest","date":"2026-08-26T18:09:25Z","type":"stable","version":"hobby-latest"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/hobby-20260826-180917","date":"2026-08-26T18:09:20Z","type":"stable","version":"hobby-20260826-180917"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/desktop-v0.61.49","date":"2026-08-26T18:20:47Z","type":"stable","version":"desktop-v0.61.49"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/desktop-v0.61.35","date":"2026-08-26T02:02:18Z","type":"stable","version":"desktop-v0.61.35"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/hobby-20260825-154632","date":"2026-08-25T15:46:35Z","type":"stable","version":"hobby-20260825-154632"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/desktop-v0.61.30","date":"2026-08-25T17:44:54Z","type":"stable","version":"desktop-v0.61.30"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/desktop-v0.61.22","date":"2026-08-25T14:15:21Z","type":"stable","version":"desktop-v0.61.22"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/desktop-v0.61.19","date":"2026-08-25T13:12:36Z","type":"stable","version":"desktop-v0.61.19"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/desktop-v0.61.12","date":"2026-08-25T05:35:32Z","type":"stable","version":"desktop-v0.61.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/desktop-v0.61.11","date":"2026-08-25T01:57:20Z","type":"stable","version":"desktop-v0.61.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/posthog-cli/v0.15.1","date":"2026-08-25T09:28:36Z","type":"stable","version":"posthog-cli/v0.15.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/posthog-cli/v0.15.0","date":"2026-08-24T14:11:01Z","type":"stable","version":"posthog-cli/v0.15.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/hobby-20260824-154352","date":"2026-08-24T15:43:54Z","type":"stable","version":"hobby-20260824-154352"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/desktop-v0.61.8","date":"2026-08-24T21:48:23Z","type":"stable","version":"desktop-v0.61.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/desktop-v0.61.4","date":"2026-08-24T21:17:11Z","type":"stable","version":"desktop-v0.61.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/desktop-v0.60.414","date":"2026-08-24T17:58:20Z","type":"stable","version":"desktop-v0.60.414"},{"url":"https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/releases/tag/desktop-v0.60.401","date":"2026-08-24T13:39:45Z","type":"stable","version":"desktop-v0.60.401"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.scorecard | - | 4.2 |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| 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 | Pendo | PostHog |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Core** |  |  |
| Analytics scope | 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: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:27:38.164Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*