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OpenRev vs PostHog

PostHog describes itself as “Your product's context layer”

The short answer

PostHog is a broad product platform: product and web analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments, error tracking and more, used mostly on its cloud with usage-based pricing and a large free tier. OpenRev does one thing: revenue-first web analytics that you host yourself, with 11 payment providers built in. PostHog's revenue analytics is in beta and supports only Stripe.

Facts checked on , from PostHog's own site. Sources

Side by side

Pricing

OpenRev

Free. You pay only for your own hosting, and small sites fit Cloudflare's free plan

PostHog

Free up to 1M events/month, then usage-based (from $0.00005 per event); no per-seat fees

Source code

OpenRev

Open source (MIT)

PostHog

MIT, except the ee/ directory (proprietary enterprise license); posthog-foss is fully MIT

Hosting

OpenRev

You host it: Cloudflare Workers + D1, Docker or Node.js, with D1, SQLite or PostgreSQL

PostHog

PostHog Cloud (US or EU), or an unsupported self-hosted "hobby" deploy with Docker Compose

Revenue attribution

OpenRev

Built in: payments are linked to visitors and the channel that brought them, with LTV and renewals by source

PostHog

Revenue analytics (beta) from Stripe or from revenue events; linking Stripe data to people needs metadata you add

Payment providers

OpenRev

Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle, Polar, Dodo Payments, Creem, Shopify, WooCommerce, Gumroad, Paystack and Razorpay, plus a custom webhook and a Payments API

PostHog

Stripe (beta)

Cookies

OpenRev

First-party visitor ID by default; optional cookieless mode per site

PostHog

Cookie by default; optional cookieless mode

Goals & funnels

OpenRev

PostHog

Visitor journeys

OpenRev

PostHog

Event history for identified users

Realtime view

OpenRev

PostHog

Live view (alpha)

API

OpenRev

REST API with an OpenAPI spec

PostHog

Full REST API

MCP server for AI agents

OpenRev

Built into every install

PostHog

Hosted MCP server

Alerts

OpenRev

Payments, goals, traffic spikes and digests to Slack, Discord, Telegram, email or webhooks

PostHog

Insight alerts to email, Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams or webhooks (5 on the free tier)

The main differences

Scope

PostHog bundles many products for product and engineering teams. OpenRev focuses on one question for founders and marketers: which channels, campaigns and pages bring in money.

Revenue

PostHog's revenue analytics is in beta and supports Stripe only. To link Stripe revenue to people, you add PostHog IDs to Stripe metadata, and its documented revenue breakdowns are product, coupon, customer, country and amount. OpenRev has 11 providers built in, links payments through checkout metadata, automatically tagged payment links, success-page detection or the customer's email, and reports revenue by channel, referrer, campaign, page, country and device.

Self-hosting

PostHog's self-hosted deploy is a free hobby setup without support that runs on a single machine, and all paid-plan features are Cloud-only. OpenRev is built to be self-hosted, on Cloudflare, Docker or Node.js.

Price

PostHog is free up to 1M events a month, then billed per event, with optional platform packages from $250/month. OpenRev's software is free; you pay only your host.

Which one fits you

Choose PostHog if

  • You want session replay, feature flags, experiments or error tracking in the same tool as your analytics.
  • You're a product team analysing what signed-in users do in your app.
  • You'd rather use a managed cloud with a large free tier.

Choose OpenRev if

  • You want revenue by marketing channel, from Stripe or any of 10 other providers.
  • You want analytics built to be self-hosted, on Cloudflare's free plan, Docker or Node.js.
  • You want a focused revenue dashboard rather than a product-analytics suite.

Switching from PostHog

The two can run side by side, with PostHog for product analytics and OpenRev for revenue by channel. Add OpenRev's script and connect your payment provider. PostHog history isn't imported.

OpenRev and PostHog: questions

Does PostHog have revenue attribution?

PostHog's revenue analytics is in beta and supports Stripe, or revenue events you send yourself. To link Stripe revenue to people you add PostHog IDs to Stripe metadata. OpenRev has 11 payment providers built in and reports revenue by channel, campaign, page, country and device.

Can I self-host PostHog?

There is a free, MIT-licensed Docker Compose deploy, but PostHog calls it a hobby deploy without support, it runs on one machine, and paid-plan features are Cloud-only. OpenRev is built to be self-hosted on Cloudflare, Docker or Node.js.

Can I use PostHog and OpenRev together?

Yes. They use separate scripts, so you can keep PostHog for product analytics and use OpenRev for revenue attribution.

Try OpenRev on your own site

One command sets it up on Cloudflare, Docker or Node.js. It's free.

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Sources

Facts about PostHog come from these pages, read on October 25, 2026. Facts about OpenRev come from its source code and docs. Spotted something out of date? Open an issue.

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