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Same shape as Amplitude and the same answer. An event collector and a dashboard are a small build, and yours will be delightful right up to the point where you have real data in it. Interactive funnel and cohort queries over tens of millions of rows are a columnar-storage problem, and Postgres with an index on event_name is not that. If your volume is small, the honest answer isn't to build or to self-host - PostHog Cloud gives away 1M events a month, which is the same ceiling Mixpanel's own free tier has. If your volume is large, you need what you're paying for.
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Don't build this. At any volume worth analysing you would be rebuilding a columnar query engine, and you will lose that fight. Check the maths before deploying anything, because it usually says don't: - Mixpanel's own free plan covers 1M events a month. PostHog Cloud's free tier covers the same. - Self-hosted PostHog is officially unsupported, has no support, and every paid feature is cloud-only. It wants roughly 4 vCPU, 16GB RAM and 30GB+ disk. You have a computer and a browser. - Tell me my actual monthly event volume first. Under 1M, put me on a free hosted tier, add the snippet, show me a live event, and stop. Do not deploy anything. - Only if I am genuinely over that, or 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 self-host: - Retention to 12 months. Nightly Postgres and ClickHouse backups from the server to my Google Drive. - Weekly: confirm ingestion is alive and disk is under 70%. - When my volume outgrows the box, say so plainly instead of spending a week tuning it.
What you lose
- interactive queries over tens of millions of events
- funnel, retention and cohort analysis someone spent years making fast
- the free tier, which covers 1M monthly events and is a lot
- SOC 2 and a DPA when a customer asks
The numbers
Event-based, no list price: free covers 1M events a month, Growth starts at $0 and scales to 20M, Enterprise is quote-only. Early-stage startups get a year free.
mixpanel.com/pricingChecked against the live page on 2026-08-23
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