Our take
Pick Mixpanel if product teams who will stay on Free at $0 (1M events / month on the yearly estimator we fetched) while they open a first Insights chart, then buy Growth at $100 / month billed yearly ($1,200 / year, 1.5M events / month) when they outgrow the free million. 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
Best for
Mixpanel Event charts you start at $0
PostHog Product events you start at $0
Free plan
Mixpanel $0 · / month, free forever. 1M events / month on the yearly breakdown we fetched (12M events / year, $0)
PostHog $0 · for the public app. You run it. Cloud US (Virginia) or EU (Frankfurt) on the hosted path
Lowest paid
Mixpanel Growth (yearly, 1.5M events / month) $100
PostHog Logs retention $0.05
Next step up
Mixpanel Growth other yearly rows we fetched $185
PostHog Setup call $80
Runs where
Mixpanel Hosted
PostHog Local; you host it
Watch out
Mixpanel Free is 1M events / month on the yearly table
PostHog Free is 1 project and 1M events
Last checked
Mixpanel 2026-10-23 · mixpanel.com/pricing
PostHog 2026-10-22 · posthog.com/pricing
product teams who will stay on Free at $0 (1M events / month on the yearly estimator we fetched) while they open a first Insights chart, then buy Growth at $100 / month billed yearly ($1,200 / year, 1.5M events / month) when they outgrow the free million.
Read the Mixpanel pageproduct / 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.
Read the PostHog page
