# Countly vs PostHog (slim)

> PostHog scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Countly's 54.8 (C), 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 Countly's 54.8 (C), and leads in every scored category. Both do analytics query.

- Countly: C 54.8, rank #607 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/countly.min.md
- PostHog: B 68.4, rank #204 of 842 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/posthog.min.md
- Countly, good for An agent whose owner runs Countly on its own infrastructure or a dedicated Flex server and wants analytics, crash and remote-config data through MCP with per-category permissions. Also Runs on your own machine; 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 28; Schema & documentation, 81 against 75; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 66; Security & auth, 84 against 63; Payments & pricing, 40 against 17; Maintenance & community, 89 against 80; Transparency & trust, 83 against 70. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Countly | PostHog |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 28 | 74 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 75 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 66 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 63 | 84 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 17 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 80 | 89 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 70 | 83 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Countly | PostHog |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Countly Ltd | PostHog Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://mcp.count.ly/mcp` | `https://us.posthog.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, stdio, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Auth | API key | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Countly Lite is AGPL-3.0 with added branding terms under Section 7. Enterprise plugins are proprietary. Flex is a hosted service under Countly's terms. The MCP server is 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 | 209 | 1096 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.PostHog/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-07 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-09-25 | 2026-06-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-09-25 | 2026-06-29 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | 28k npm/wk | 40k stars, 15.2M npm/wk |