# Matomo vs PostHog (slim)

> PostHog scores 68.4 (B) to Matomo's 59.5 (C) for analytics queries. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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PostHog scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Matomo's 59.5 (C), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Both do analytics queries.

- Matomo: C 59.5, rank #546 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/matomo.min.md
- PostHog: B 68.4, rank #217 of 950 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/posthog.min.md
- Matomo, good for Teams that want web and product analytics with data kept in the EU or on their own servers, queried by report, segment, funnel or cohort.
- 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 38; Schema & documentation, 81 against 73; Security & auth, 84 against 71; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30; Maintenance & community, 89 against 79; Transparency & trust, 83 against 72. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install.

| Category | Matomo | PostHog |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 38 | 74 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 73 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 78 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 71 | 84 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 79 | 89 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 72 | 83 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Matomo | PostHog |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | InnoCraft Limited | PostHog Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://us.posthog.com` |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Matomo core is GPL-3.0-or-later and the MCP server plugin is GPL v3 or later. Matomo Cloud is a hosted service under InnoCraft's terms. Paid On-Premise plugins fall under the InnoCraft EULA | 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 | 19 | 1096 |
| llms.txt | no | yes |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.PostHog/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-10-04 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2025-04-10 | 2026-06-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-05 | 2026-06-29 |
| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes, with an opt-out |
| Terms restrict automated access | yes | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking | not found in the text | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 40k stars, 15.2M npm/wk |