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What PostHog really costs at your usage

PostHog priced at YOUR usage from verified pricing pages — 1M events + 5K session replays + 1M feature-flag requests free every month, unlimited team members. See the free-tier ceiling, the per-unit overage, and exactly when it starts costing real money.

Prices verified 2026-07-17 against official pricing pages · fit weights are our estimates (see methodology) · share the URL to share your configuration

As of Jul 2026, with 3,000,000 tracked events/month, a $50 budget for this slot, PostHog ranks first for these inputs at 48% fit and a StackSays-estimated $100.00/month. Fit weights are our estimates; prices trace to official pages. Change any input below and the verdict recomputes.

Your situation

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Events or pageviews / month (thousands)500 = 500,000; pageview-billed vendors (Plausible/Fathom) count pageviews, event-billed ones count every eventBudget for this slot ($/mo)what you'd accept paying for the analytics platform layerTeam size1 = solo; bundled platforms save glue time for small teams

Clear pick for your inputs

PostHogfit 48% · est $100.00/mo

Event-billed all-in-one (analytics + replay + flags) with a huge monthly free allotment

PostHogfit 48%

$100.00/mo

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The decision, in plain words

For a solo builder at 3,000,000 tracked events/month and a $50.00/mo budget for the analytics platform slot, PostHog leads at 48% fit and $100.00/mo. The two rules doing the work: batteries included (Bundles session replay, feature flags, funnels, heatmaps — fewer services to glue at team size 1); ecosystem maturity (established — our estimate from ecosystem age, docs and hiring pool).

Honest weak spot of the pick: ~$100/mo is 200% of your $50/mo budget — over it.

Generated from the calculation above — every number traces to the sourced data; nothing here is written by an AI making things up.

Why PostHog scores 48%

Budget fit (weight 30, our estimate) — ~$100/mo is 200% of your $50/mo budget — over it-30

Batteries included (weight 12, our estimate) — Bundles session replay, feature flags, funnels, heatmaps — fewer services to glue at team size 1+12

Exit cost (weight 4, our estimate) — Open source / self-hostable — data and dashboards can move with you+2.8

Ecosystem maturity (weight 8, our estimate) — established — our estimate from ecosystem age, docs and hiring pool+8

Free-tier runway (weight 10, our estimate) — Free tier exists (1M events + 5K session replays + 1M feature-flag requests free every month, unlimited team members) — a cheap staging/dev lane even after you outgrow it+4

Total (lines sum exactly)-3.2

Possible range −64…+64 (sum of active rule weights) · fit % = (total + max) / (2 × max)(-3.2 + 64) / 128 = 48%

How the $100.00/mo estimate is calculated

tracked events overage — 2000K over 1000K included × $0.05/K$100.00

Note — First 1M events free every month, then $0.00005/event for the 1M-2M band (rates step down with volume — we model the first band, so high volumes are overestimated); replays and flags billed separately$0

Monthly total (lines sum exactly)$100.00

What could change this verdict

No single input change within the tested range changes the winner.

Cost risk

Estimated now (StackSays estimate, not your final bill)$100.00/mo · Pay-as-you-go

Free-tier statusFree tier exceeded (tracked events 3,000K > 1,000K cap)

Biggest unpriced/uncertain variableFirst 1M events free every month, then $0.00005/event for the 1M-2M band (rates step down with volume — we model the first band, so high volumes are overestimated); replays and flags billed separately

Official prices verified 2026-07-17; calculation is deterministic code over those prices.

At a glance

Tool	Free tier	Paid entry	Verified
PostHog	1M events + 5K session replays + 1M feature-flag requests free every month, unlimited team members	Pay-as-you-go — First 1M events free every month, then $0.00005/event for the 1M-2M band (rates step down with volume — we model the first band, so high volumes are overestimated); replays and flags billed separately	2026-07-17

Where did you land?anonymous, one click

Data sources

Tool	Source	Verified
PostHog	PostHog pricing	2026-07-17

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