Mixpanel vs. Posthog

Mixpanel vs. Posthog

You shouldn’t have to change providers as your business grow. Rather than get locked in to a tool built only for startups, start and evolve with a platform that delivers at any scale, for any use case.

You shouldn’t have to change providers as your business grow. Rather than get locked in to a tool built only for startups, start and evolve with a platform that delivers at any scale, for any use case.

Proven and reliable

Proven and reliable

Build your business on a platform already trusted by 20,000+ customers of all sizes and industries.

Build your business on a platform already trusted by 20,000+ customers of all sizes and industries.

Lighting-fast and built for scale

Lighting-fast and built for scale

Stop wasting time waiting for queries to load on Posthog's Clickhouse backend. With Mixpanel's proprietary database, Arb, you get faster queries for even the most complex questions.

Stop wasting time waiting for queries to load on Posthog's Clickhouse backend. With Mixpanel's proprietary database, Arb, you get faster queries for even the most complex questions.

Built for the entire product lifecycle

Built for the entire product lifecycle

Ship better and faster, together, with accessible analytics, experiments, session replay, and feature flagging for product, data, and devs.

Ship better and faster, together, with accessible analytics, experiments, session replay, and feature flagging for product, data, and devs.

Tackle any data challenge

Mixpanel’s proprietary database, Arb, adapts to your evolving needs, ensuring clean, usable data, at faster speeds, for deeper insights.

Retroactive flexibility: Retroactively update user properties after events have occurred without duplicating data or disrupting analysis.

Data modeling built for speed and accuracy: Maintain cleaner datasets by keeping user and event data distinct, joined only when needed for queries.

Richer context: Enrich event data with lookup tables by joining it with separately maintained datasets using a shared key.

Tackle any data challenge

Mixpanel’s proprietary database, Arb, adapts to your evolving needs, ensuring clean, usable data, at faster speeds, for deeper insights.

Retroactive flexibility: Retroactively update user properties after events have occurred without duplicating data or disrupting analysis.

Data modeling built for speed and accuracy: Maintain cleaner datasets by keeping user and event data distinct, joined only when needed for queries.

Richer context: Enrich event data with lookup tables by joining it with separately maintained datasets using a shared key.

Tackle any data challenge

Mixpanel’s proprietary database, Arb, adapts to your evolving needs, ensuring clean, usable data, at faster speeds, for deeper insights.

Retroactive flexibility: Retroactively update user properties after events have occurred without duplicating data or disrupting analysis.

Data modeling built for speed and accuracy: Maintain cleaner datasets by keeping user and event data distinct, joined only when needed for queries.

Richer context: Enrich event data with lookup tables by joining it with separately maintained datasets using a shared key.

Tackle any data challenge

Mixpanel’s proprietary database, Arb, adapts to your evolving needs, ensuring clean, usable data, at faster speeds, for deeper insights.

Retroactive flexibility: Retroactively update user properties after events have occurred without duplicating data or disrupting analysis.

Data modeling built for speed and accuracy: Maintain cleaner datasets by keeping user and event data distinct, joined only when needed for queries.

Richer context: Enrich event data with lookup tables by joining it with separately maintained datasets using a shared key.

Circular graphic showing the Mixpanel logo at the center surrounded by eight colorful icons representing different analytics capabilities, including experimentation, Heatmaps, Session Replay, funnels, flows, retention, insights, and Metric Trees. The connected icons illustrate Mixpanel as a unified, full-platform product analytics solution.

The tools you need to win, and nothing else

Rather than try to take over your entire stack with half-baked data warehouses, Mixpanel only gives you what we're best at it, so you can stay flexible.

Unified analytics: Track and improve performance across web, mobile, and product with best-in-class Mixpanel analytics.

Faster learning loops: Ship features, run tests, and track results in one integrated flow, using shared metrics and cohorts to go from release to insight without context switching.

Aha qualitative insights: Uncover qualitative insights with desktop and mobile session replay, plus metric-driven heatmaps.

Circular graphic showing the Mixpanel logo at the center surrounded by eight colorful icons representing different analytics capabilities, including experimentation, Heatmaps, Session Replay, funnels, flows, retention, insights, and Metric Trees. The connected icons illustrate Mixpanel as a unified, full-platform product analytics solution.

The tools you need to win, and nothing else

Rather than try to take over your entire stack with half-baked data warehouses, Mixpanel only gives you what we're best at it, so you can stay flexible.

Unified analytics: Track and improve performance across web, mobile, and product with best-in-class Mixpanel analytics.

Faster learning loops: Ship features, run tests, and track results in one integrated flow, using shared metrics and cohorts to go from release to insight without context switching.

Aha qualitative insights: Uncover qualitative insights with desktop and mobile session replay, plus metric-driven heatmaps.

Circular graphic showing the Mixpanel logo at the center surrounded by eight colorful icons representing different analytics capabilities, including experimentation, Heatmaps, Session Replay, funnels, flows, retention, insights, and Metric Trees. The connected icons illustrate Mixpanel as a unified, full-platform product analytics solution.
The tools you need to win, and nothing else

Rather than try to take over your entire stack with half-baked data warehouses, Mixpanel only gives you what we're best at it, so you can stay flexible.

Unified analytics: Track and improve performance across web, mobile, and product with best-in-class Mixpanel analytics.

Faster learning loops: Ship features, run tests, and track results in one integrated flow, using shared metrics and cohorts to go from release to insight without context switching.

Aha qualitative insights: Uncover qualitative insights with desktop and mobile session replay, plus metric-driven heatmaps.

Circular graphic showing the Mixpanel logo at the center surrounded by eight colorful icons representing different analytics capabilities, including experimentation, Heatmaps, Session Replay, funnels, flows, retention, insights, and Metric Trees. The connected icons illustrate Mixpanel as a unified, full-platform product analytics solution.

The tools you need to win, and nothing else

Rather than try to take over your entire stack with half-baked data warehouses, Mixpanel only gives you what we're best at it, so you can stay flexible.

Unified analytics: Track and improve performance across web, mobile, and product with best-in-class Mixpanel analytics.

Faster learning loops: Ship features, run tests, and track results in one integrated flow, using shared metrics and cohorts to go from release to insight without context switching.

Aha qualitative insights: Uncover qualitative insights with desktop and mobile session replay, plus metric-driven heatmaps.

Get started fast, and evolve as you grow

PostHog requires extensive setup and customization, without hands-on help. You shouldn't have to waste your time setting up a platform instead of growing.

Fast, safe setup: Implement quickly and safely with autocapture, out of the box integrations with your stack, and standard security features.

Guided implementation: Use AI and (really nice) humans to customize and continuously evolve your implementation to your needs.

Built-in expertise: Learn from enterprise-grade support via Mixpanel University and a community of more than 10,000 likeminded users.

“Use a Template” dialog in the Mixpanel Company Metrics dashboard, matching suggested template events like New Feature Event and Value Moment to a project’s own events such as First app open and Sign up. The panel lets users quickly connect recommended metrics to their tracked events, with Cancel and Apply buttons to finalize the template setup.

Get started fast, and evolve as you grow

PostHog requires extensive setup and customization, without hands-on help. You shouldn't have to waste your time setting up a platform instead of growing.

Fast, safe setup: Implement quickly and safely with autocapture, out of the box integrations with your stack, and standard security features.

Guided implementation: Use AI and (really nice) humans to customize and continuously evolve your implementation to your needs.

Built-in expertise: Learn from enterprise-grade support via Mixpanel University and a community of more than 10,000 likeminded users.

“Use a Template” dialog in the Mixpanel Company Metrics dashboard, matching suggested template events like New Feature Event and Value Moment to a project’s own events such as First app open and Sign up. The panel lets users quickly connect recommended metrics to their tracked events, with Cancel and Apply buttons to finalize the template setup.
Get started fast, and evolve as you grow

PostHog requires extensive setup and customization, without hands-on help. You shouldn't have to waste your time setting up a platform instead of growing.

Fast, safe setup: Implement quickly and safely with autocapture, out of the box integrations with your stack, and standard security features.

Guided implementation: Use AI and (really nice) humans to customize and continuously evolve your implementation to your needs.

Built-in expertise: Learn from enterprise-grade support via Mixpanel University and a community of more than 10,000 likeminded users.

“Use a Template” dialog in the Mixpanel Company Metrics dashboard, matching suggested template events like New Feature Event and Value Moment to a project’s own events such as First app open and Sign up. The panel lets users quickly connect recommended metrics to their tracked events, with Cancel and Apply buttons to finalize the template setup.

Get started fast, and evolve as you grow

PostHog requires extensive setup and customization, without hands-on help. You shouldn't have to waste your time setting up a platform instead of growing.

Fast, safe setup: Implement quickly and safely with autocapture, out of the box integrations with your stack, and standard security features.

Guided implementation: Use AI and (really nice) humans to customize and continuously evolve your implementation to your needs.

Built-in expertise: Learn from enterprise-grade support via Mixpanel University and a community of more than 10,000 likeminded users.

“Use a Template” dialog in the Mixpanel Company Metrics dashboard, matching suggested template events like New Feature Event and Value Moment to a project’s own events such as First app open and Sign up. The panel lets users quickly connect recommended metrics to their tracked events, with Cancel and Apply buttons to finalize the template setup.
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Instant setup with autocapture

Product, mobile, and web analytics

Experiments (run and analyze)

Feature flags

Session replay

Heatmaps

Install with AI

10,000+ free monthly session replays

Proprietary Arb database for lightning-fast querying

Mirror mode for Warehouse Connectors

Metric Trees

Borrowed properties

Automated data quality governance

Out-of-the-box reports for marketing and success

Email Support on All Plans

Free training on Mixpanel University

17 years of expertise

Feature

Table Title

Instant setup with autocapture

Product, mobile, and web analytics

Experiments (run and analyze)

Feature flags

Session replay

Heatmaps

Install with AI

10,000+ free monthly session replays

Proprietary Arb database for lightning-fast querying

Mirror mode for Warehouse Connectors

Metric Trees

Borrowed properties

Automated data quality governance

Out-of-the-box reports for marketing and success

Email Support on All Plans

Free training on Mixpanel University

17 years of expertise

Feature

Experiments (run and analyze)

Feature flags

Session replay

Heatmaps

Install with AI

10,000+ free monthly session replays

Proprietary Arb database for lightning-fast querying

Mirror mode for Warehouse Connectors

Metric Trees

Borrowed properties

Automated data quality governance

Out-of-the-box reports for marketing and success

Email Support on All Plans

Free training on Mixpanel University

17 years of expertise

Product, mobile, and web analytics

Instant setup with autocapture

Table Title

Instant setup with autocapture

Product, mobile, and web analytics

Experiments (run and analyze)

Feature flags

Session replay

Heatmaps

Install with AI

10,000+ free monthly session replays

Proprietary Arb database for lightning-fast querying

Mirror mode for Warehouse Connectors

Metric Trees

Borrowed properties

Automated data quality governance

Out-of-the-box reports for marketing and success

Email Support on All Plans

Free training on Mixpanel University

17 years of expertise

Feature

See why top companies rely on Mixpanel for growth

See why top companies rely on Mixpanel for growth

See why top companies rely on Mixpanel for growth

See why top companies rely on Mixpanel for growth

“Recently tried Mixpanel & Google Analytics on the same app & Mixpanel UX just blows every other option out of the water.”

Rakesh G

Founder at Snipply

“Remember that feeling when you switched from a Nokia brick phone to a smartphone with a touchscreen? I’m getting that same feeling when I switched from Firebase + Google Analytics to Mixpanel”

Richard W

Founder at Tensor

“Mixpanel has proven to be a very useful tool both for our UX, product, and marketing teams and has allowed us to gain additional insights into how our players navigate the platform”

Scuri M

Director of Operations at FACEIT