Cookie Free Analytics

vs PostHog

PostHog is a product OS. We count pages.

People search “PostHog alternative” when the bill arrived or the toolbar scared the lawyer. Cookie Free Analytics is not a smaller PostHog. It is a different tool.

  • Job

    Cookie Free Analytics
    Web pageviews
    PostHog
    Product analytics + flags + replay

  • Cookies / identify

    Cookie Free Analytics
    No cookies. One day, then forgotten
    PostHog
    Usually identify users

  • Script

    Cookie Free Analytics
    Under 1 KB gzipped
    PostHog
    A real product bundle

  • Session replay

    Cookie Free Analytics
    Will not ship
    PostHog
    Yes

  • Self-host

    Cookie Free Analytics
    No
    PostHog
    Yes

  • Hosted

    Cookie Free Analytics
    Frankfurt + Ireland
    PostHog
    Their cloud / yours

  • MCP

    Cookie Free Analytics
    Hosted /mcp, dashboard aggregates, no hashes
    PostHog
    Official HogQL MCP; cookies and identify are usual

What they actually are

PostHog is funnels, feature flags, session replay, experiments, CDP-shaped pipelines. You can self-host it. The script is not 1 KB. Cookies or identifying users is normal because the job is “what did this account do”. Cloud is generous then expensive.

When to pick them

You have signed-in users, you ship flags, you watch replays, you care about activation. That is product analytics. Buy PostHog or Mixpanel. Not us.

When to pick us

You wanted to know whether the pricing page ran, without a second Google. Marketing sites, docs, blogs. If someone says “just put PostHog on the brochure site”, they are over-instrumenting.

The honest bit

We will never catch their feature list. Comparing pageview price to PostHog usage is a category error we will not make in a table and then hide.

Questions

Can I ask Claude about traffic the way PostHog MCP does?
For pageviews, sources, live, and Growth funnels — yes, POST /mcp with OAuth 2.1 or a hashed bearer. Not HogQL, not session replay, not feature flags. PostHog’s MCP is the right tool if you already live in PostHog. We are the cookieless dashboard in the editor.
Is Cookie Free Analytics a PostHog alternative?
No, if you use PostHog as a product platform. Yes, if you only wanted unblocked pageviews on a marketing site and someone installed PostHog for that.
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