Mixpanel vs PostHog
Mixpanel vs PostHog
Summary
Pros
- Interface is easy to understand
- Great support options
- Reporting is in realtime
- Good community
- Easy to set up
- Great interface design
- Reasonable pricing
- Good session recordings
Cons
- Event setup requires tech skills
- Contains hard to discover features
- Has a steep learning curve
- Feature flags are limited
- Limited amount of graph types
- Filtering could be improved
Pricing information
Starting Price
| Free | Free |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| Cloud Lite | Free |
| Cloud | €0.005 per event / recording |
| Enterprise Cloud | €450 p/m minimum |
Free trial period
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
User Seats
Account Security
Data Processing
Data Center Locations
Software Hosting
Data Ownership
Mixpanel
You
Data Freshness
Data Retention
Data Sampling
Data Import
Via one-off script or Ingestion API
Historical data ingestion
Data Export
Via raw data export API
Compliance
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Hourly, daily, or weekly base on event threshold
Receive alerts via Slack or email
Email Reports
Same as custom alerts
Subscribe to an Insight or dashboard
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Device Reporting
Funnel Reporting
Funnel trend, time to convert & frequency visualisations
User Flow Reporting
Sankey chart with selected, immediate & drop off events
Segmentation
Automatically find interesting segments & receive per email
Cohort Reports
User cohorts of users to filter reports
Retention Reporting
Retention curves, trends & user cohort buckets
Attribution Reporting
Simple UTM tracking with "first touch" attribution
Ecommerce Reporting
Option to track purchases but no special reporting
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Session Recordings
A/B Testing
Experiments
Feature flags and A/B testing
User Feedback
Surveys
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Metrics
Max 255 properties per event
Custom Reports
Unlimited custom dahboards & reports
Custom Events
Combine events into a custom event
Annotations
Directly on the linechart in Insights
Support
Support description
Mixpanel offer extensive documentation and knowledgable support through a ticketing system. They have a support email address but regular support requests are directed to the ticketing system. Join their Slack group for community access.
Posthogs' support consists of an extensive knowledge base and community on their website. For enterprise users, support is also available trough a dedicated Slack channel and via e-mail.
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