Metabase vs PostHog
What each one’s own pages state, side by side. Every value is a quote AirStack found on that product’s pages; “Not observed” means AirStack has not found it on that product’s pages.
| Metabase | PostHog | |
|---|---|---|
| What it says it does | Open source AI analytics you can verify metabase.com | PostHog ingests and stores your analytics, errors, replays, and business data so you and your agents can query and act on it. posthog.com |
| Starting at | $90 Starter / month | Not observed |
| Deployment | Metabase Cloud, your own infrastructure, Cloud deployment, Self-hosted, cloud-hosted metabase.com | PostHog Cloud, self-hosting posthog.com |
| Integrations | 100Hires, ActiveCampaign, Adjust, Adyen, Asana, Datadog, GitHub, GitLab, Google Ads, Google AdSense, Google Analytics 4, Google Cloud Billing, Google Kubernetes Engine, Google Play Console, Google Search Console, Google Tag Manager, Gorgias, Grafana, Greenhouse, HubSpot, Jira, Shopify, Salesforce, Slack metabase.com | HubSpot, Postgres, Stripe posthog.com |
| Compliance | CCPA, GDPR, SOC 2 metabase.com | CCPA, GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2 posthog.com |
| Free plan | Yes metabase.com | Yes posthog.com |
| Plans | Enterprise, Pro, Open Source, Starter, Starter and Open Source metabase.com | Not observed |
| Open source | Yes metabase.com | Yes posthog.com |
| License | Not observed | It is MIT licensed if you want to use it in a big organization that isn’t ready to move to PostHog Web yet. posthog.com |
| Pricing basis | Not observed | Usage-based pricing posthog.com |
| Customers (their claim) | Trusted by 100,000+ companies metabase.com | Join 500,000+ teams already shipping with PostHog. posthog.com |
Where they differ
- PostHog claims HIPAA on its own pages; Metabase’s pages read by AirStack do not mention it.
Prices are list prices as written on each pricing page; check them before you buy. Nothing here is a ranking or a recommendation.