PostHog
Product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and a/b testing that you can self-host (alternative to Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap, HotJar, Optimizely).
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 17,556 commits in the last 90 days, latest release desktop-v0.61.881 (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to Amplitude, LaunchDarkly, Mixpanel, Hotjar and Segment.
At a glance
PostHog quick facts
- Health score
- 88/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 40,516
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- desktop-v0.61.881, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
Top alternatives to PostHog
Full rankings: Amplitude alternatives, LaunchDarkly alternatives, Mixpanel alternatives
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
PostHog scores 88/100, #17 of 33 in Analytics: 17,556 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (desktop-v0.61.881, today) earns 25.0 of 25, 40,516 stars add 18.4 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
17556 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
desktop-v0.61.881 released today
- Stars 18.4 / 20
41k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 17556
- Last 90 days
- 41,564
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #17 of 33 tools in Analytics by health , between Plausible Analytics (#16) and ANALOG (#18) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Python |
| Latest release | desktop-v0.61.881 · today |
| Stars | 40,516 |
| Open issues | 3,845 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | posthog/posthog ↗ |
PostHog vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with PostHog (Analytics), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umami | 98 | 40k | MIT | yesterday |
| Countly Community Edition | 95 | 5.9k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Featbit | 93 | 1.9k | MIT | today |
| Plausible Analytics | 88 | 30k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| PostHog (this tool) | 88 | 41k | MIT | today |
| Matomo | 87 | 22k | GPL-3.0 | today |
PostHog: common questions
What does PostHog replace?
Repoly lists PostHog as an open-source alternative to Amplitude, LaunchDarkly, Mixpanel, Hotjar and Segment. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where PostHog stands against the others.
Is PostHog still maintained?
PostHog had 17,556 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, desktop-v0.61.881, is from today. Repoly recomputes this nightly.