# PostHog

> PostHog is a free, open-source app you can self-host in the analytics category. Product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and a/b testing that you can self-host (alternative to Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap, HotJar, Optimizely). It has 40,156 GitHub stars, is released under the MIT license. It is a self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics and Metabase Cloud.

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/PostHog/posthog |
| Website | https://posthog.com/ |
| GitHub stars | 40,156 |
| Forks | 3,477 |
| Open issues | 3,747 |
| License | MIT |
| License type | Open source |
| Language | Python |
| Docker image | No |
| Platforms | Python |
| Categories | Analytics, Developer Tools |
| Commits, last 12 months | 35,167 |
| Last commit | Oct 6, 2026 |
| Latest release | desktop-v0.61.621 (Oct 1, 2026) |
| Created | Jan 23, 2020 |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained |
| Archived | No |

Topics: analytics, python, react, javascript, typescript, ab-testing, experiments, feature-flags, session-replay, ai-analytics

## Install

Step-by-step deploy guide: [How to self-host PostHog with Docker Compose](https://appsgit.com/guides/posthog) (intermediate, about 30 minutes).

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## PostHog replaces

- [Google Analytics alternatives](https://appsgit.com/alternatives/google-analytics): Google's web analytics service for traffic and conversion reporting.
- [Metabase Cloud alternatives](https://appsgit.com/alternatives/metabase-cloud): A hosted business intelligence service for dashboards and ad-hoc questions.

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