statpx vs PostHog: Which Analytics Tool Is Right for You?

Two Different Tools for Different Jobs

statpx and PostHog both offer analytics, but they approach the problem from opposite directions. statpx is a focused, free-forever website analytics platform built for site owners, marketers, and agencies. PostHog is a broad product-analytics platform built primarily for engineering teams who want to track in-app behavior — and who often want feature flags, experiments, and session replay bundled with it.

Pricing: Free Forever vs. Usage-Based Metering

This is the clearest difference. statpx is free forever: unlimited websites, unlimited pageviews, unlimited team members, no credit card, and no metered billing as you grow. PostHog Cloud's free tier is genuinely generous — roughly 1 million events a month, plus separate free allowances for session recordings and other features — but usage beyond that is billed per event, so costs rise with traffic.

PostHog can also be self-hosted for free under its open-source MIT license, using Docker Compose. That avoids per-event billing, but it means running and maintaining your own Postgres, ClickHouse, and related infrastructure — a real ops commitment that only tends to make sense at very high event volumes with dedicated DevOps capacity.

Scope and Complexity

PostHog can absolutely track website traffic, but that's one use case inside a much larger toolkit that also covers feature flags, A/B experiments, surveys, error tracking, and a data warehouse — aimed at teams instrumenting an entire product, not just a marketing site. That breadth is valuable for the right team, but it's also a learning curve if all you want is "how many people visited today, and what did they do."

statpx stays narrowly focused on website analytics — Stats, Visitors, Campaigns, Goals, Funnels, and the rest of the dashboard — so there's less to learn if a marketing site or small business site is all you're measuring. See our broader look at product analytics vs. web analytics for how the two categories differ in general.

Features Included Free on Each Side

On statpx's free plan, you get click heatmaps, session recordings, multi-touch attribution, campaign/UTM tracking, form analytics, JS error tracking, funnels, retention cohorts, A/B testing, real-time alerts, Google Search Console integration, and GA4 import — all at zero cost, with no plan tiers.

PostHog has session replay, feature flags, and experimentation too, and in some ways goes deeper on the product-analytics side. Getting there means navigating a considerably larger platform, and, past the free tier, paying for the additional usage. For teams that only need straightforward website analytics, that added surface area is often more than needed.

Where PostHog Has More Depth

To be fair to PostHog: if you need feature flags, controlled experiments tied to your codebase, in-product surveys, or a data warehouse to combine analytics with other data sources, PostHog has real capability here that statpx doesn't attempt to match — statpx is intentionally scoped to website analytics, not full product instrumentation.

Who Should Pick Which?

Choose statpx if: you're a site owner, marketer, or agency who wants complete website analytics — heatmaps, session recordings, funnels, conversion tracking — for free, without usage caps or a steep learning curve.

Choose PostHog if: you're an engineering-led team building a product, and you want feature flags, experimentation, and product analytics in the same platform as your traffic data, and you're comfortable with either its usage-based pricing or self-hosting its infrastructure.

The Bottom Line

statpx and PostHog serve different audiences. statpx wins on simplicity and unlimited free website analytics; PostHog wins for engineering-led teams that need product-analytics depth — feature flags, experiments, and a data warehouse — alongside traffic measurement. If you run a website and want fast, free answers without a learning curve, statpx is the simpler choice. If web analytics is one piece of a broader product-instrumentation strategy, PostHog's breadth may be worth its complexity and cost.