# Amplitude vs PostHog (slim)

> PostHog scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Amplitude's 66.2 (B), and leads in every scored category. Both do analytics query. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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PostHog scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Amplitude's 66.2 (B), and leads in every scored category. Both do analytics query.

- Amplitude: B 66.2, rank #223 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/amplitude.min.md
- PostHog: B 68.4, rank #171 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/posthog.min.md
- Amplitude, good for A team already on Amplitude that wants an agent to query charts, funnels, retention and experiment results, edit dashboards and manage the tracking plan under its own permissions. Also No incidents deducted, where PostHog loses 7 points for them.
- PostHog, good for An agent that answers product questions in SQL or with funnel, retention and trends queries, and that manages feature flags, experiments and error tracking in the same project. Ahead on Reliability, 74 against 60; Schema & documentation, 81 against 72; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 72; Security & auth, 84 against 74; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Maintenance & community, 89 against 83; Transparency & trust, 83 against 78. Also Open source.

| Category | Amplitude | PostHog |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 74 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 72 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 74 | 84 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 83 | 89 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 78 | 83 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Amplitude | PostHog |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Amplitude, Inc. | PostHog Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.amplitude.com/mcp` | `https://us.posthog.com` |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Amplitude's terms of service. The SDKs, the `amp` CLI and the MCP marketplace plugins on GitHub and npm are MIT | MIT for the repository outside the `ee` directory, which has its own licence. PostHog Cloud is a hosted service under PostHog's terms |
| Tools exposed | 45 | 1096 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | `com.amplitude/mcp-server` | `io.github.PostHog/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-07-21 | 2026-06-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-08-31 | 2026-06-29 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 1.3M npm/wk, 1.8M PyPI/wk | 40k stars, 15.2M npm/wk |