Pick Honeycomb if
platform teams who will stay on Free forever at 20M events and 2 Triggers while they run a first Query Builder, then buy Pro at $150/month when they need 50M events, 100 Triggers, and 2 SLOs.
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Our take
Pick Honeycomb if platform teams who will stay on Free forever at 20M events and 2 Triggers while they run a first Query Builder, then buy Pro at $150/month when they need 50M events, 100 Triggers, and 2 SLOs. Pick PostHog if product / eng teams who will stay on Cloud Free $0 (1M events, 5K replays, 1M flag requests, 1,500 surveys, 100K exceptions, 1 project, no card) while they ask a first Insight, then raise a
Honeycomb
hosted observability-query desk
Best for
Honeycomb Wide-event queries you start at $0
PostHog Product events you start at $0
Free plan
Honeycomb $0 · free forever. Up to 20M events/month and 100M time-series data points. 2 Triggers. Distributed tracing, BubbleUp, OpenTelemetry, team query history, permalinks
PostHog $0 · for the public app. You run it. Cloud US (Virginia) or EU (Frankfurt) on the hosted path
Lowest paid
Honeycomb Refinery as a Service $0.10
PostHog Logs retention $0.05
Next step up
Honeycomb Pro $150/mo
PostHog Setup call $80
Runs where
Honeycomb Hosted
PostHog Local; you host it
Watch out
Honeycomb Free is 20M events and 2 Triggers
PostHog Free is 1 project and 1M events
Last checked
Honeycomb 2026-10-23 · honeycomb.io/pricing
PostHog 2026-10-22 · posthog.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick PostHog if
product / eng teams who will stay on Cloud Free $0 (1M events, 5K replays, 1M flag requests, 1,500 surveys, 100K exceptions, 1 project, no card) while they ask a first Insight, then raise a billing limit when a launch week would freeze at the cap — or self-host when they will run the stack.
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