PostHog vs Crazy Egg

Free tier available

From $29 per month (annual billing, 5k pageviews)

Usage-based pricing per product with a substantial free tier; most small teams stay free indefinitely.

Tracked pageviews are the meter, and the entry plan's 5,000 a month is small enough that a modest marketing site outgrows it. Recording and heatmap-report counts are separate caps on the same plan.

Large monthly free allowance across every product, plus free self-hosting.

Free trial on every plan; no permanently free tier.

Widely used

PostHog · since 2020

Established

Crazy Egg · since 2006

• Replaces four or five separate subscriptions with one bill and one SDK.
• Free tier is large enough for real production use at startup scale.
• Open source with a credible self-hosting path.

• Heatmaps, recordings, surveys and A/B testing in one subscription rather than three.
• The A/B editor is usable by a marketer without an engineer, which is the whole point of buying it.
• Twenty years of the same product, which is unusual reassurance in this category.

• Individual modules are less deep than category specialists.
• Self-hosting at scale is a serious infrastructure undertaking.
• The product surface changes fast, which means occasional churn.

• Pageview-metered, and pageviews are the thing you least control — a good week of traffic is an overage.
• Session replay is shallower than FullStory or LogRocket: no console, no network, no error correlation.
• Web only. There is no mobile SDK.

Startups and scale-ups consolidating analytics, replay and flags into one platform.

Marketing teams that want to see behaviour and act on it in one tool, without an engineer in the loop.