🆚 PostHog vs. Smartlook

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Smartlook is slightly more popular than PostHog.
🌍 Smartlook is more popular in the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
🌎 PostHog is more popular in the United States, Canada, and Turkey.

PostHog

Smartlook

Type

Web analytics tool

About

PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform available as a self-hosted deployment or managed cloud service.

It offers event and funnel analytics, retention and cohort analysis, session recording and heatmaps, feature flags and A/B testing, customizable dashboards, plugins, and data export to data warehouses such as BigQuery and Snowflake.

Smartlook is an all-in-one analytics platform that helps businesses analyze their users' actions, with session recordings, heatmaps, event tracking, and funnels.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

San Jose, California, United States

Website

posthog.com #13,966

smartlook.com #580,087

Pricing

Free version ✔️Open source

PostHog CloudFree tier ✔️1M events, 5K session recordings
Usage based (after 1M free events)$0.00005-/event
Enterprise$2,000+/month

Free version ✔️

Pro$55+/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Smartlook web analytics tool is 1.2 times more popular than PostHog.

Total websites

Market share

Analytics

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Smartlook is more popular in the Czech Republic, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while PostHog is more popular in the United States, Canada, and Turkey.

United States

Czech Republic

United Kingdom

Germany

Poland

Brazil

France

Spain

India

Australia

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the A/B Testing category.
🥇 Most popular in Turkey in the Feature Management category.
🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the Feature Management category.
🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the Feature Management category.
🥉 Third most popular in Canada in the Feature Management category.

⭐ 7th most popular in the Czech Republic in the Analytics category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Hungary in the Analytics category.
⭐ 9th most popular in Slovakia in the Analytics category.
⭐ 10th most popular in Colombia in the Analytics category.
🔥 11st most popular in Poland in the Analytics category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Smartlook is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, fashion and beauty, and travel, while PostHog is more commonly used on business, marketing and merchandising, and Internet services sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Internet Services

Software/Hardware

Education/Reference

Fashion/Beauty

Travel

Real Estate

Health