In-depth: PostHog vs LogRocket
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Want to know how PostHog and LogRocket compare? If you remember nothing else, remember these two things:
LogRocket is a frontend monitoring tool that helps developers detect and solve issues.
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, 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, we also enable developers to build their own integrations, open their own PRs, or give feedback on our 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 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
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 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 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.
- Correlation analysis: This feature enables you to automatically find correlated events or properties 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
Session replay
LogRocket and PostHog both offer robust, full-featured session replay tools that outperform even dedicated tools, such as Hotjar.
Heatmaps and click tracking
Tracking & SDKs
Tl;dr: Both support a broad range of tracking options and libraries, and manual event instrumentation, as well as autocapture, but LogRocket lacks server-side features.
Library support
PostHog supports a wide range of web, mobile, and server libraries, but not all features are equally available across all of them. LogRocket lacks support for server-side libraries.
Data pipelines
PostHog offers more than 50 integrations and apps, while LogRocket offers slightly fewer. 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!
Popular integrations
Below, we've listed a few of the most popular integrations used across PostHog and LogRocket. See our app directory for a full list.
Compliance
Frequently asked questions
Got another question? You can ask the PostHog team anything you want!
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 are also available.
How can I estimate my usage?
The easiest way is to sign up to PostHog, 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 in our docs for more.
Does PostHog block bots by default?
Yes. See the full blocklist in our docs.
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 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 in our docs.
Where can I learn more about session replay tools beyond PostHog and LogRocket?
If you want a broader comparison across FullStory, Hotjar, OpenReplay, Replay.io, and more, check out our full guide to the best session replay tools for developers.
PostHog is an all-in-one developer platform for building successful products. We provide product analytics, web analytics, session replay, error tracking, feature flags, experiments, surveys, LLM analytics, data warehouse, CDP, and an AI product assistant to help debug your code, ship features faster, and keep all your usage and customer data in one stack.