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Want to know how PostHog and LogRocket compare? If you remember nothing else, remember these two things:

1. **LogRocket** is a frontend monitoring tool that helps developers detect and solve issues.

2. **PostHog** goes beyond just frontend monitoring by integrating powerful analytics, session replay, feature management, A/B testing tools into one platform.

## How is PostHog different?

### 1. PostHog replaces multiple tools

LogRocket is a narrow tool. It does one thing – and it does it well. PostHog includes many of the same tools, such as session replay, [error tracking](/docs/error-tracking), and console logs, but augments them with powerful dev tools, such as product analytics, feature flags, A/B testing, and surveys. It's everything you need to both squash bugs _and_ understand every aspect of user behavior.

### 2. PostHog is open source and transparent

PostHog is built with transparency at its core. Not only do we work in the open and give full access to [our source code](https://github.com/PostHog/posthog), we also enable developers to [build their own integrations](/docs/apps/build), open their own PRs, or give feedback on [our roadmap](/roadmap). PostHog's open app framework makes it easy to integrate internal tools, an advantage closed-source products like LogRocket can't offer.

### 3. PostHog constantly ships new features

We ship weirdly fast. We update [our changelog](/changelog) every week and often there’s even more features in beta testing. And that’s without counting all the apps and integrations submitted by our community! We work hard to keep PostHog on the cutting edge and we’re transparent about the ways we do that.

## Comparing PostHog and LogRocket

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  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Product analytics" description="Track events and conversion; analyze user behavior" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="Web analytics" description="Simple dashboard of aggregate traffic, sources, campaigns, and session metrics" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Session replay" description="Watch real users use your product; diagnose bugs" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="Feature flags" description="Roll out features safely; toggle features for cohorts or individuals" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="Surveys" description="Ask users for qualitative feedback and gather responses" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="Experiments" description="Test changes and analyze impact" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Heatmaps" description="Track where users click" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Event pipelines" description="Push and pull data to enrich customer profiles" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="Open source" description="Build your own apps and contribute code" />
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-   **Feature flags:** PostHog offers robust, multivariate feature flags which support JSON payloads. This enables you to push real-time changes to your product without needing to redeploy. Visit [our feature flag page](/feature-flags) for more information. LogRocket doesn’t have any in-built feature flag functions.

-   **Experiments:** PostHog offers multivariate experimentation, which enables you to test changes and discover statistically relevant insights. Visit [the experimentation page](/experiments) for more information. LogRocket doesn’t have any in-built experimentation features.

### Product analytics

While LogRocket offers some product analytics features, it isn’t primarily intended as a product analytics tool and lacks many things product managers and engineers require. PostHog is a more capable product analytics app, offering advanced features such as correlation analysis, custom formulas, and a flexible SQL query editor.

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  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Graphs and trends" description="Build custom insights and visualizations" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Dashboards" description="Combine insights into shareable dashboards" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Funnels" description="Understand conversion between events, pages" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Cohorts" description="Combine users based on properties and events for group analysis" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="User paths" description="Track user flows and where they drop-off" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Retention" description="Analyze user and revenue retention" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="UTM tracking" description="Track marketing campaigns with UTM tags" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="Correlation analysis" description="Suggested events and properties that lead to success or failure" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="Group analytics" description="Understand how organizations use your product" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="Formulas" description="Use custom formulas to calculate unique insights" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="SQL query editor" description="Write your own queries in SQL" />
</ComparisonTable>

-   **Correlation analysis:** This feature enables you to [automatically find correlated events or properties](/manual/correlation) which affect the conversion rate of users within a funnel. LogRocket doesn’t offer any such automated correlation discovery, meaning users must search for correlating factors manually and without assistance.

> **Further reading:** [Comparing the most popular LogRocket alternatives](/blog/best-logrocket-alternatives)

### Session replay

LogRocket and PostHog both offer robust, full-featured [session replay tools](/blog/best-open-source-session-replay-tools) that outperform even dedicated tools, such as Hotjar.

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  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Web app recordings" description="Capture recordings from single-page apps" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Mobile app recordings" description="Capture recordings in iOS and Android apps" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Identity detection" description="Link recordings to user IDs" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Console logs" description="Capture extra content from a users’ browser environment" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Playlists" description="Sort recordings into static and dynamic playlists" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Performance monitoring" description="Track network events within a session" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Privacy masking" description="Censor personal information from playback" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Conditional recording" description="Only capture the sessions you want" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Export recordings" description="Take recordings in/out of the platform" />
</ComparisonTable>

- **Mobile app recordings:** Session replay for mobile apps is currently under development – see [our GitHub mega issue](https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/issues/13267) for more.

### Heatmaps and click tracking

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  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Heatmaps" description="Visualize cursor movements on a page" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Clickmaps" description="Visualize where users click on a page" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Scrollmaps" description="Visualize how far down a page users scroll" />
</ComparisonTable>

### Tracking & SDKs

**Tl;dr:** Both support a broad range of tracking options and libraries, and manual event instrumentation, as well as autocapture.

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  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Event tracking" description="Track manually instrumented events" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Autocapture" description="Automatically track events without instrumentation" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Combined events" description="Track related events as a single trackable action or behavior" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Reverse proxy available" description="Send events from your own domain to capture more data" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Cross-domain tracking" description="Track users across domains and sub-domains" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Server-side tracking" description="Send events from your server" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Capture API" description="Send events through an API" />
</ComparisonTable>

### Library support

PostHog supports a wide range of client and server libraries, but not all features are equally available across all of them. We recommend using PostHog's JavaScript snippet to enjoy all our features. See [our client library documentation](/docs/getting-started/install?tab=snippet) for more information.

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  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="JavaScript" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="React Native" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="React" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="Flutter" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="iOS" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Android" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="Ruby" />
</ComparisonTable>

### Data pipelines

[PostHog offers more than 50 integrations and apps](/cdp), while [LogRocket offers slightly fewer](https://logrocket.com/features/integrations). As an open-source application, PostHog welcomes contributions from the community. If an integration you need isn’t available, [it’s possible to create it](/docs/apps/build)!

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  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Export API" description="Export data via API" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Import API" description="Import data via API" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="Amazon Redshift" description="Export data to Redshift" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="Amazon S3" description="Export data to S3 bucket" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="Azure Blob Storage" description="Export data to Microsoft Azure" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="Google Cloud Storage" description="Export data to GCS" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="Snowflake" description="Export data to Snowflake database" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="BigQuery" description="Export data to Google BigQuery for analysis" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="RudderStack" description="Sync event and person data" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="Airbyte" description="Extract and load data to external platforms" />
</ComparisonTable>

### Popular integrations 

Below, we've listed a few of the most popular integrations used across PostHog and LogRocket. See our [app directory](/cdp) for a full list.

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  <ComparisonRow column1={false} column2={true} feature="Hubspot" description="Sync event and person data" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Salesforce" description="Sync event and person data" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Zapier" description="Export events for use in Zaps" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Stripe" description="Sync customer and invoice data" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Intercom" description="Extract and load data to external platforms" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Customer.io" description="Sync data between platforms" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Sentry" description="Ingest Sentry errors for analysis" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Segment" description="Ingest events from Segment" />
</ComparisonTable>

### Compliance
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  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="GDPR ready" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2="Self-host only" feature="HIPAA ready" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="Data anonymization" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={false} feature="Cookie-less tracking option" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="SOC 2 certified" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="SAML/SSO available" />
  <ComparisonRow column1={true} column2={true} feature="2FA available" />
</ComparisonTable>

## Frequently asked questions

Got another question? You can [ask the PostHog team anything you want](/questions)!

### How much does PostHog cost?

PostHog has transparent pricing based on usage with a generous free tier:

|                       | **Free usage per month** 
|-----------------------|--------------------------
| **Product analytics** | 1 million events        
| **Session replay**    | 5,000 recordings         
| **Feature flags**     | 1 million API requests
| **A/B testing**       | 1 million API requests  
| **Surveys**           | 1500 responses

We charge progressively less the more you use once you exceed your monthly free allowance. Volume, non-profit and [startup discounts](/startups) are also available. 

### How can I estimate my usage?

The easiest way is to [sign up to PostHog](https://us.posthog.com/signup), integrate our snippet, then check the projection on your billing page after a few days. Alternatively, you can guesstimate by multiplying your current monthly active users by an estimate of events generated per user – 50 to 100 per user is a good starting point. See [Estimating usage & costs](/docs/billing/estimating-usage-costs) in our docs for more.

### Does PostHog block bots by default?

Yes. See the [full blocklist in our docs](/docs/product-analytics/troubleshooting#does-posthog-block-bots-by-default).

### What about ad blockers?

We recommend all users deploy a reverse proxy, which enables you to send events to PostHog Cloud using your own domain. Events sent from your own domain and are less likely to be intercepted by tracking blockers, ensuring you capture the best data possible. We have [reverse proxy setup guides](/docs/advanced/proxy) for AWS Cloudfront, Caddy, Cloudflare, Netlify, Vercel, and more, in our docs.

### Can I use PostHog with a CDP? (Segment, Rudderstack, etc.)

Yes. See [Using PostHog with a CDP](/docs/advanced/cdp) in our docs.