Pick Lightdash if
analytics teams who already own dbt and will self-host at $0, or buy Cloud Pro at $3,000/month after the 21-day trial — and will not treat embedding as the core product.
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Our take
Pick Lightdash if analytics teams who already own dbt and will self-host at $0, or buy Cloud Pro at $3,000/month after the 21-day trial — and will not treat embedding as the core product. 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
Lightdash
dbt-native BI desk
Best for
Lightdash Charts on your dbt semantic layer you start at $0 or $3,000
PostHog Product events you start at $0
Free plan
Lightdash $0 · core BI. Unlimited seats. Community Slack only. Access to Lightdash OSS only
PostHog $0 · for the public app. You run it. Cloud US (Virginia) or EU (Frankfurt) on the hosted path
Lowest paid
Lightdash Cloud Pro $3/mo
PostHog Logs retention $0.05
Next step up
Lightdash HIPAA BAA $490/mo
PostHog Setup call $80
Runs where
Lightdash Local; you host it
PostHog Local; you host it
Watch out
Lightdash Cloud Pro is $3,000/month
PostHog Free is 1 project and 1M events
Last checked
Lightdash 2026-10-23 · lightdash.com/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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