Not reallyCan Grok Bot build Amplitude?
What you're paying for isn't code. No bot conjures a panel, a bank feed or a benchmark.
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A bot can absolutely build you an event pipeline - a collector endpoint, Postgres, a dashboard. That part is genuinely small, and it works. What it cannot build is the thing you are actually paying for: a query engine that answers 'show me 90-day retention for users who hit this funnel step, split by cohort' over fifty million events in under two seconds. That is columnar storage, careful indexing and years of query planning. Your homegrown version will be lovely at ten thousand events and unusable at ten million, and you will find out which you are at the worst possible moment. If you have low volume, the honest move is not to build and not to self-host either: PostHog Cloud is free up to 1M events a month, and standing up your own costs you a 16GB machine to replace something you were being given.
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Don't build this one. At real volume you would be rebuilding a columnar query engine, and you will lose. And before you self-host anything, check the maths, because it usually says don't: - PostHog Cloud's free tier is 1M events a month, 5k session replays, no card. - Self-hosted PostHog is officially unsupported by them, gets no support, and every paid feature is cloud-only. - It wants about 4 vCPU, 16GB RAM and 30GB+ of disk. That is a real machine to run something you were being given free. So: you have a computer and a browser. - First, tell me my actual monthly event volume. If it is under 1M, set me up on PostHog Cloud's free tier, add the snippet to my site, show me a live event arriving, and stop. Do not deploy anything. - Only if I am genuinely over that, or I tell you the data cannot leave my infrastructure, deploy self-hosted PostHog: a VPS under my account sized to their published requirements (walk me through the signup · wait for me at the payment step), their official docker-compose on it, behind my domain with TLS, managed over SSH. If you do end up self-hosting: - Set retention to 12 months so the disk does not quietly fill. - Nightly Postgres and ClickHouse backups from the server to my Google Drive. - Check weekly that ingestion is alive and disk is under 70%. Message me only if it is not. - Tell me plainly that nobody supports this but us.
What you lose
- sub-second queries over tens of millions of events
- retention, funnel and pathfinder analysis that someone spent years tuning
- session replay and the debugging that comes with it
- SOC 2 and the data processing agreement your enterprise customer will ask for
The numbers
Event-based now, with no fixed entry price: the free plan covers 2M events a month and Plus starts at $0 and scales to 70M. Growth and Enterprise are quote-only.
amplitude.com/pricingChecked against the live page on 2026-08-23
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