# Pendo vs PostHog (slim)

> PostHog scores 68.4 (B) on agent readiness against Pendo's 48.2 (D), 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 Pendo's 48.2 (D), and leads in every scored category. Both do analytics query.

- Pendo: D 48.2, rank #541 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/pendo.min.md
- PostHog: B 68.4, rank #171 of 629 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/posthog.min.md
- Pendo, good for Teams already paying for Pendo who want an agent to answer questions on usage, funnels, retention, guides and feedback, or to draft segments and journeys. 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 45; Schema & documentation, 81 against 59; Agent ergonomics, 78 against 41; Security & auth, 84 against 58; Payments & pricing, 40 against 5; Maintenance & community, 89 against 70; Transparency & trust, 83 against 69. Also Free to start without a card; Open source.

| Category | Pendo | PostHog |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 45 | 74 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 59 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 41 | 78 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 58 | 84 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 5 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 70 | 89 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 69 | 83 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Pendo | PostHog |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Pendo.io, Inc. | PostHog Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://app.pendo.io/mcp/v0/shttp` | `https://us.posthog.com` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, SSE (legacy) | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Pricing | Paid | Freemium |
| Licence | Proprietary service under the Pendo Software Services Agreement. The Claude Code plugin repository on GitHub 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 | 93 | 1096 |
| MCP registry | not listed | `io.github.PostHog/mcp` |
| Last release | 2026-09-30 | 2026-10-05 |
| Terms last updated | 2022-08-01 | 2026-06-29 |
| Privacy policy last updated | 2024-11-04 | 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 |
| Popularity | 1 stars | 40k stars, 15.2M npm/wk |