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Free PostHog Alternatives

Looking for something other than PostHog? These 13 monitoring & analytics services also have a free tier. Limits come from each vendor's own pricing page; click a date to check the source. Last updated 13 Nov 2026.

PostHog Free Tier (For Reference)

Service	Free limits	Catch	Checked
PostHog Free tier	Analytics events1M / month Session replays5K / month Feature flag requests1M / month Exceptions100K / month Survey responses1,500 / month Logs10 GB	Allowance resets monthly, card or not. The no-card Free plan has 1 project and 1-year data retention, and usage stops at the limits (extra events are dropped); pay-as-you-go keeps the same free allowance and adds 6 projects.	13 Nov 2026

13 Free Alternatives

Service	Free limits	Catch	Checked
Sentry (Developer) Free tier	Users1 Errors5k Logs5 GB Application metrics5 GB Tracing5M spans Session replay50 Uptime / cron monitors1 / 1	—	4 Nov 2026
Better Stack (Free) Free tier	Monitors & heartbeats10 Status pages1 Exceptions100,000 / month Session replays5,000 Logs3 GB, retained 3 days Traces3 GB, retained 3 days Metrics30 GB Web events3 GB, retained 3 days	Free plan is for personal projects; logs and traces are kept for only 3 days.	10 Nov 2026
UptimeRobot (Free) Free tier	Monitors50 Interval5 minutes Integrations5 Status pages1 (basic) Data retention3 months	Free plan allows personal and commercial use, but checks only every 5 minutes, with no team (notify or login) seats.	5 Nov 2026
Grafana Cloud (Free) Free tier	Metrics active series10k / month Logs and traces50 GB ingested / month each Retention14 days Grafana users3 active / month	Community support only; Pro starts at $19/mo platform fee plus usage.	12 Nov 2026
New Relic (Free) Free tier	Data ingest100 GB / month Full platform users1 Basic usersUnlimited	Only one full platform user on Free; data ingest beyond 100 GB/month is billed at $0.40/GB.	10 Nov 2026
Honeycomb (Free) Free tier	Events20M / month Metrics data points100M / month Triggers2	—	10 Nov 2026
Axiom (Personal) Free tier	Data loading500 GB / month Query compute10 GB-hours / month Storage25 GB Retention30 days	Personal plan is for individual developers and small projects (community support). Pay-as-you-go adds a $25/month platform fee with a larger always-free allowance (1 TB loading, 100 GB-hours query, 100 GB storage).	10 Nov 2026
Checkly (Hobby) Free tier	Uptime monitors10 Browser check runs1,000 / month API check runs10,000 / month Status page20 services, 250 subscribers Users1 Raw data retention7 days	Hobby runs from 6 public locations (max 3 per check), has no SMS or phone alerts and no custom status-page domain.	3 Nov 2026
Healthchecks.io (Hobbyist) Free tier	Monitored cron jobs20 Log entries100 per job	No SMS, WhatsApp or phone-call credits on Hobbyist. The $5/mo Supporter plan keeps the same 20 jobs; Business ($20/mo) raises it to 100 jobs with 50 SMS/WhatsApp and 20 phone-call credits. Using multiple accounts to dodge limits counts as abuse.	3 Nov 2026
Umami Cloud (Hobby) Free tier	Events100K / month Websites1 Data retention6 months SupportCommunity	No API or MCP access on Hobby, and no extra events; Pro is $20/month for 1 million events and up to 20 websites.	9 Nov 2026
Cronitor (Hacker) Free tier	Monitors (cron jobs, heartbeats, uptime checks)5 Fastest check frequency5 minutes Web analytics and errors100,000 events Status pages1 (50 subscribers) Dashboard users1	No SMS alerts, synthetic browser checks or on-call integrations (PagerDuty, OpsGenie) on Hacker. Business is $2/month per monitor plus $5/month per user, with no base fee.	12 Nov 2026
Microsoft Clarity (Free) Free tier	Price$0, no paid plan Sessions recordedUp to 100,000 per project per day Recording retention30 days Heatmap sizeUp to 100,000 page views per heatmap Sites and team membersUnlimited	Session replay and heatmaps, not server or error monitoring. Recordings older than 30 days are deleted unless favourited or labelled. Microsoft says Clarity data helps improve its machine learning models.	12 Nov 2026
Cloudflare Web Analytics Free tier	PlansAvailable on all plans, including Free Sites not proxied by Cloudflare10 Sites proxied by CloudflareNo limit Rules (Free plan)0 (snippet injected on all subdomains)	Privacy-focused page views and Core Web Vitals, not product analytics: no custom events or funnels. Sites outside Cloudflare's proxy are capped at 10 and need the JS beacon added by hand; path rules need a paid plan.	13 Nov 2026

FAQ

What are the best free alternatives to PostHog?

13 other monitoring & analytics services with a permanent free tier are tracked here: Sentry, Better Stack, UptimeRobot, Grafana Cloud, New Relic, Honeycomb, Axiom, Checkly, Healthchecks.io, Umami Cloud, Cronitor, Microsoft Clarity, Cloudflare Web Analytics. Each limit is copied from the vendor's pricing page and dated.

Does PostHog itself have a free tier?

Yes: Analytics events 1M / month; Session replays 5K / month; Feature flag requests 1M / month; Exceptions 100K / month; Survey responses 1,500 / month; Logs 10 GB. Last checked 13 Nov 2026.

How do I pick a free PostHog alternative?

Start with the limit your app will hit first (for example requests, storage, emails or users), then read each service's catch. The table on this page shows both for every alternative.

See all monitoring & analytics free tiers or the head-to-head comparisons.