PostHog
PostHog is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Analytics category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Python. It is a self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics and Metabase Cloud. It has 40,445 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 40,445
- Forks
- 3,554
- Open issues
- 3,859
- Commits, last 12 months
- 40,598
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- desktop-v0.61.839Oct 24, 2026
- Created
- Jan 23, 2020
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 40,598 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors7 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 40,598 |
| Latest release | desktop-v0.61.839 (Oct 24, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 4,164 |
| Open issues | 3,859 |
| Open pull requests | 1,424 |
| Good first issues | 7 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Jan 23, 2020 |
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About PostHog
Product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and a/b testing that you can self-host (alternative to Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap, HotJar, Optimizely).
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/PostHog/posthog.
Topics
- analytics
- python
- react
- javascript
- typescript
- ab-testing
- experiments
- feature-flags
- session-replay
- ai-analytics
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Is PostHog free and open source?
Yes. PostHog is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run PostHog with Docker?
PostHog does not list an official Docker image. It installs natively (Python), so follow the install steps in its README or look for a community-maintained container.
What are the best alternatives to PostHog?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to PostHog include Superset, Metabase and Umami. PostHog itself is a self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics and Metabase Cloud.
Is PostHog actively maintained?
The most recent commit to PostHog was on Oct 26, 2026 with 40,598 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is desktop-v0.61.839, published Oct 24, 2026. It had 3,859 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.