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Mixpanel vs PostHog

Both products compete in Product Analytics. Product Analytics software tracks how users interact with a digital product — capturing events, defining funnels, measuring retention, and segmenting cohorts — so product teams can make data-driven decisions about what to build and fix. It turns raw usage data into insight about where users succeed and where they drop off. Here are the facts the B4 Index maintains on each, side by side.

The two files, side by side

What it is
Strong event analytics; self-serve friendly, weaker at enterprise scale than Amplitude
Open-source, self-hostable; proves the entire category is buildable
Pricing
$20-833+/month
$0 (self-hosted) to $450+/month (cloud)
Categories served
Product Analytics, Marketing Performance Analytics, Customer Journey Analytics Platform
Product Analytics, Project Management
Status
Active · verified September 2026
Active · verified September 2026

The decision underneath the comparison

Choosing between Mixpanel and PostHog assumes you're buying Product Analytics at all. That's the prior question, and the B4 Index scores it on two axes: how much Product Analytics differentiates you, and how far AI has come at building it. Read the build-versus-buy considerations for Product Analytics before you shortlist either product.

Vendor facts are maintained independently of any B4 verdict and re-verified on a monthly liveness check. See the full methodology.