Head to head
Pendo vs PostHog
Both platforms are scored with the same methodology and the same category rubric. Nothing on this page is influenced by advertising.
51/100 | 52/100Higher score | |
|---|---|---|
| Category rank | #8 | #3 |
| Confidence | High confidence | High confidence |
| External Reputation | 82 | 86 |
| AI Authority | 11 | 6 |
| Web Authority | 39 | 34 |
| Expert Assessment | 71 | 82 |
| TOP10 User Score | — | — |
| Pricing | Not published — Base tier is "Custom pricing" · free tier: Free forever, capped at 500 monthly active users; includes product analytics, in-app guides, Pendo-branded roadmaps and Pendo-branded NPS, unlimited web and mobile app keys. Novus is also free during open beta with no MAU limit. A 30-day full-platform trial exists but is routed through sales. | $0 — pay-as-you-go keeps the same free allowances then meters overage from $0.0000500/event (1–2M events) · free tier: $0 forever, no credit card: 1M analytics events, 5,000 session recordings, 1M feature-flag requests, 1,500 survey responses, 100K error-tracking exceptions and 10GB logs per month; unlimited team members, 1 project, 1-year data retention, community support only |
| Pricing model | Custom (MAU-based subscription with a free tier) | Usage-based, metered per product (no traditional tiers) |
| Best for | Mid-market to enterprise software teams (roughly 50–5,000 employees) running several applications, where product management, customer success and onboarding need shared behavioural data and there is budget authority for a negotiated, unpublished annual price. | Engineering-led seed-stage SaaS startups under 1M events per month that want analytics, session replay, feature flags and experiments from one vendor at $0, and have at least one developer comfortable installing an SDK and configuring a reverse proxy. |
| Avoid if | You need a published price before speaking to sales, you are a small team just above 500 MAUs with no procurement budget, you run a high-volume low-engagement freemium product, you want warehouse-native SQL-first analysis, or you are buying primarily for advanced survey research. | Avoid PostHog if the daily users of the tool are non-technical founders, PMs or marketers — the learning-curve and confusing-UI themes account for hundreds of negative G2 reviews — or if you need guaranteed responsive support early, SSO and audit logs on a startup budget, or more than one project without paying. |
| Markets | Mid-Market, Enterprise, SMB | — |
| Founded | — | — |
| Headquarters | — | — |
A higher TOP SCORE means more of the evidence favours that platform on this methodology — it is not a recommendation, and it does not account for your specific requirements. Advertisers are never declared the winner of a comparison.