# Heap vs PostHog (slim)

> PostHog scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Heap's 53 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do analytics events. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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PostHog scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Heap's 53 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do analytics events.

- Heap: D 53, rank #488 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/heap.min.md
- PostHog: B 68.4, rank #171 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/posthog.min.md
- Heap, good for An agent that records backend events or enriches user and account properties in a company's existing Heap project, or that files privacy deletions. 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 Schema & documentation, 81 against 57; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 49; Security & auth, 84 against 41; Payments & pricing, 40 against 25; Maintenance & community, 89 against 63; Transparency & trust, 83 against 64. Also Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Heap | PostHog |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 72 | 74 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 57 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 49 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 41 | 84 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 25 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 63 | 89 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 64 | 83 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Heap | PostHog |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Contentsquare (Content Square, Inc.) | PostHog Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://heapanalytics.com` | `https://us.posthog.com` |
| Transports | HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Price for analytics events | not published | $0.0001 per transaction |
| Licence | Proprietary service under Contentsquare's master services agreement. The React Native bridge and the Node client on 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 | none | 1096 |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.PostHog/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-06 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | no date given | 2026-06-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2026-06-29 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | yes, with an opt-out |
| Popularity | 213 npm/wk | 40k stars, 15.2M npm/wk |