Contentsquare (formerly Hotjar) vs PostHog

Two web analytics tools side by side. Prices are the starting plan a small business would pick, in USD.

Compare	Contentsquare (formerly Hotjar)Contentsquare	PostHogPostHog
In one line	Heatmaps and session recordings to see why visitors leave	Product analytics, session replay, and feature flags with a large free tier
Starting price	Free	Free
Six-person team	$0/mo	$0/mo
Plans	Free (up to 200,000 sessions/mo, 1 project, 1 month of data); Growth from $39/mo billed yearly ($49 monthly), priced by sessions; Pro and Enterprise by quote; 15-day Growth trial	Free each month: 1M events, 5,000 recordings, 1M feature flag requests; then pay per use (anonymous events $0.00005 each); optional Boost $250/mo, Scale $750/mo
Pricing model	Free tier	Free tier
Free trial	15 days	—
Users	Unlimited	Unlimited
Integrations	GA4, Shopify, HubSpot, Slack, Zapier	Slack, HubSpot, Intercom, Customer.io, Zapier, Salesforce, Klaviyo, Google Ads
Team size	Just me · 2–10 people · 11–50 people	2–10 people · 11–50 people · 51–200 people
Available in	US · UK · CA · AU	US · UK · CA · AU
Phone support	None listed	None listed
Live chat	None listed	None listed
Support hours	Not published	Not published
Incidents posted	8 incidents posted on Contentsquare's status page, which covers all Contentsquare products and regions, in the 90 days to Oct 27, 2026; 1 marked major or critical by Contentsquare. Status page	PostHog has a public status page. Status page
Capterra score	4.6 / 5 from 545 reviews	See reviews on Capterra
Trustpilot score	Not listed	3.6 / 5 from 12 reviews (few reviews)
Fit: Retail shop	55	35
Fit: Restaurant or café	40	25
Fit: Service business	65	55
Fit: Agency or studio	85	70
Fit: Trades or contractor	45	25
Fit: Online store	90	72
Why people pick it	Shows real behavior Free tier is useful	1M events and 5,000 recordings free every month Spending caps per product
Where it falls short	Adds page weight Privacy setup needed	Needs a developer to install and tune Many separate meters make costs hard to predict
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Six-person prices are what a team of six would pay on the published plans; "Not listed" means those plans don't cover six. How we calculate prices