PostHog vs Simple Analytics Comparison 2026
PostHog bundles product analytics with session replay, feature flags and surveys, billed by usage: the first million events a month are free, with no stated cap on sites or users. Simple Analytics is a single page-view dashboard, free on Hobby for five websites and one user with a badge on the page, then $20 a month starting at 100,000 pageviews, with every extra user costing another $20. PostHog answers what a product team needs to know about behavior. Simple Analytics answers what a page got read, on one screen, for people who never wanted the rest.
At a glance
- Both have a genuinely free tier.
Side by side
PostHog | Simple Analytics | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | Not listed | From $20 |
| Pricing model | Free plan, paid tiers | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier | Yes | Yes |
| Billing (they differ) | Usage-based | Monthly or annual |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Yes |
PostHog
Product analytics billed by the event
PostHog bundles product analytics, session replay, feature flags and surveys and bills each of them by usage rather than by seat, so a team of ten costs the same as a team of one at the same volume. The first million events each month cost nothing, and that allowance survives an upgrade. Billing limits can be set per product, which is the guard against a viral week arriving as an invoice. The event rates are quoted to five decimal places, so working out a monthly figure takes arithmetic rather than reading.
Our note
Set the billing limits on day one rather than after the first spike, because usage pricing is only comfortable when it has a ceiling you chose. If all you need is page views and referrers, Plausible or Fathom will answer that for a flat fee and far less setup.
Simple Analytics
Website numbers on a single page
Simple Analytics is one dashboard with no setup behind it, aimed at somebody who wants to know what people read and has no intention of building funnels. No cookies, no consent banner and hosting inside the EU are the three things it leads with. Pageview volume sets the price and extra users cost the same again each. Hobby sites are free if the badge stays on the page.
Why people weigh these two
- Simple Analytics instead of PostHog
- Simple Analytics puts everything on one page from $20 with a free tier.
- PostHog instead of Simple Analytics
- PostHog bills by the event with a free tier, for behaviour rather than page counts.
Which one should you pick
Choose PostHog if you need more than page views: session replay, feature flags and surveys sit on the same bill, billed by usage rather than by seat, so a team of ten costs what a team of one costs at the same volume. The first million events a month are free on every plan, including after upgrading, which covers a small site or an early product completely. Its own listing admits that if page views and referrers are genuinely all you need, a flat-fee tool answers that with far less setup.
Choose Simple Analytics if the question is only which pages get read and where visitors came from, on one screen with no configuration: Hobby is free for five websites and one user as long as the badge stays visible. Self-serve starts at $20 a month at 100,000 pageviews, but extra users cost $20 each, the same as the base plan, so it gets expensive fast for a team. There are no funnels, no session replay and no feature flags here, on purpose.
Common questions
- Which is cheaper, PostHog or Simple Analytics?
- For a small site, PostHog can cost nothing, since the first million events a month are free with no stated site cap. Simple Analytics is also free on Hobby for five sites, but adding a second user costs $20 a month, the same as its entire base plan, which PostHog's usage pricing does not charge for by seat at all.
- Does Simple Analytics do session replay or feature flags like PostHog?
- No, its listing describes one page-view dashboard with no configuration and nothing beyond that. PostHog bundles session replay, feature flags and surveys alongside analytics, each billed separately by usage.
- Which one is easier to predict the bill for?
- Simple Analytics, since its price tracks only pageview volume and seat count in a simple estimator. PostHog's rates are quoted to five decimal places per event, which its own listing admits takes arithmetic rather than a glance, though billing limits can be set per product.
- Do features change between pricing tiers on either?
- Not on Simple Analytics: its listing states features stay the same across tiers, and only traffic and seats change the price. PostHog adds no feature gates by plan either, since analytics, replay, flags and surveys are each billed by their own usage regardless of tier.
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