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PostHog alternative: Nordva Launch

PostHog is a set of product tools on one event stream: product and web analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments, error tracking, surveys, a data warehouse, logs, workflows and more. Revenue analytics (labelled beta) reads Stripe as a data-warehouse source or revenue events you capture, and exposes revenue as properties on persons and groups; its dedicated revenue dashboard has been removed. Marketing analytics (opt-in beta) attributes conversion goals to UTM sources and shows ad spend. This page sets it next to Nordva Launch on the things a developer checks first: price, API, MCP support and scope. Vendor facts were read from posthog.com on 2026-09-24; prices change, so verify before deciding.

PostHog Nordva Launch
What it is PostHog is a set of product tools on one event stream: product and web analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments, error tracking, surveys, a data warehouse, logs, workflows and more. Revenue analytics (labelled beta) reads Stripe as a data-warehouse source or revenue events you capture, and exposes revenue as properties on persons and groups; its dedicated revenue dashboard has been removed. Marketing analytics (opt-in beta) attributes conversion goals to UTM sources and shows ad spend. One API and MCP server for changelog, waitlist, feedback triage, in-app notifications, and read-only Stripe revenue, contacts and attribution.
Free tier Yes: 'No credit card, not a trial.' Every month: 1M analytics events, 5K recordings, 1M feature-flag requests, 100K exceptions, 1,500 survey responses, 1M data-warehouse rows and more; 1 project, 1-year data retention, unlimited team members, community support. Usage stops at the free limits. Self-hosting is free (MIT, Docker Compose) but officially unsupported. Yes: 2 projects, each with 100 waitlist signups and 25 changelog entries; web analytics up to 10,000 events a month and a Stripe connection; API and MCP included; no card
Entry price No fixed fee: the free allowance each month, then per-unit rates per product (analytics: $0.00005 per anonymous event and $0.000198 per identified event after the first 1M, per the pricing calculator); billed monthly (Pay-as-you-go: unlimited usage, 6 projects, 7-year data retention, email support, a billing limit per product). Platform packages add SSO, audit logs, custom roles and project permissions; annual plans and volume discounts by talking to sales; a 30-minute onboarding call for $80. $19/month (Indie), about 20% off annually
Public API Yes: Public endpoints capture events and evaluate flags with the project token; private endpoints query and manage data with a personal API key, a project secret API key (beta) or OAuth, with rate limits (analytics endpoints 240 a minute and 1,200 an hour). Organisations without a paid plan have a monthly data-read allowance for queries. Yes: REST, keys scoped to one project (1 to 3 per project by plan), idempotent writes
MCP server Yes: Free, hosted remote server at https://mcp.posthog.com/mcp that can read and write across PostHog's products (analytics queries, SQL, feature flags, experiments, errors), working with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed and PostHog Desktop. Connecting and calling tools is free; tools that use an LLM may be billed as PostHog AI spend. Yes: mcp.nordva.dev, one server for every primitive, on every plan including Free. Works with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code and Windsurf
Covers Changelog: no · Waitlist: no · Feedback: no · In-app notifications: no · Revenue metrics: yes · Contacts: no · Attribution: yes Changelog: yes · Waitlist: yes · Feedback: yes · In-app notifications: yes · Revenue metrics: yes · Contacts: yes · Attribution: yes

What PostHog offers

  • Free every month without a card: 1M analytics events, 5K session recordings, 1M data-warehouse rows
  • Uses a first-party cookie by default; cookieless mode ('always' or 'on_reject') stores nothing in the browser, counts a visitor as new each day, adds no GeoIP location, and PostHog advises against calling identify() in it
  • Revenue analytics is labelled beta, reads only Stripe among payment platforms (through the data warehouse), and its dedicated dashboard has been removed in favour of revenue properties on persons and groups; the docs say a Stripe customer has to be linked to a person manually
  • Marketing analytics (opt-in beta) attributes conversion goals by utm_campaign and utm_source and pulls ad spend from Google Ads, Meta, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit, Pinterest, Bing and Snapchat
  • Open source; self-hosted deployments are free (MIT) but officially unsupported
  • Remote MCP server, free to connect

Based in United States (PostHog Inc.; its terms are under California law with courts in San Francisco County).

Where Nordva Launch differs

PostHog is a full product-analytics platform with a free million events a month, session replay, feature flags and a data warehouse. Its revenue analytics is in beta and no longer has its own dashboard: revenue becomes properties on persons and groups that you query yourself, and marketing attribution is an opt-in beta built on UTM data. Nordva Launch is narrower: a tracking script, a read-only Stripe connection that traces each paying customer to the first visit, and a view of which channels brought paying customers, next to a waitlist, a changelog and feedback on the same key. It asks less of you to set up and answers fewer questions.

Stay on PostHog if

You want session replay, feature flags, experiments or SQL over your events, or you need ad-spend data pulled in from the ad platforms.

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