Jitsu vs PostHog
Your warehouse and Google Ads need the same events PostHog gets. Forward them from PostHog and they bill on its separate Destinations meter; wire each tool on its own and the numbers drift apart.
Put Jitsu in front and your apps send each event once. Jitsu delivers it to PostHog for product analytics, to your warehouse, and to tools such as Google Ads, Braze and HubSpot, so every tool counts from the same events.
What each one is for
| Jitsu | PostHog | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Collecting events and delivering them to many tools | Product analytics, replay, flags and experiments |
| Billing | Active events, counted once across every destination | A separate meter per product |
| License | MIT, the full pipeline | MIT-licensed open-source edition |
Source: PostHog pricing.
What stays off PostHog's meter
Each Jitsu connection has its own function deciding what passes, so raw backend events and ad conversions can go to the warehouse and Google Ads while PostHog gets only the product events its dashboards use. And because PostHog is then one destination among several, moving product analytics to Amplitude or Mixpanel later needs no change to your apps.
Adding Jitsu in front of PostHog
- Create a Jitsu workspace and add the PostHog destination with your project's key.
- Point your tracking at Jitsu. Web pages load Jitsu's library. Apps add Segment's open-source Analytics-Swift and Analytics-Kotlin libraries with the host set to Jitsu (iOS, Android), next to PostHog's SDK for replay and flags.
- Add the next destination, your warehouse or an ad platform, as a second connection on the same stream.
When the warehouse and ad platform read from Jitsu, remove their old direct integrations.
Questions people ask
Can Jitsu send events to PostHog? Yes. PostHog is one of Jitsu's destinations, so the events your apps send to Jitsu reach PostHog alongside your warehouse and other tools.
Do I still need PostHog's SDK? For session replay and feature flags, yes, since those run in PostHog's own SDK. The events you track for analytics go through Jitsu, which sends them to PostHog and to every other destination.
What does Jitsu cost in front of PostHog? One price for every destination: 200,000 active events a month on the Free plan, then $99 for 2 million on Business. PostHog then bills only for the events you choose to send it.
Does Jitsu do product analytics? Jitsu delivers the events to the analytics tool you choose, PostHog, Amplitude or Mixpanel, and to the ClickHouse database in your Jitsu Cloud workspace, which you query with SQL.
Get started with Jitsu
Open a free Jitsu workspace, add PostHog as the first destination, then connect your warehouse to the same stream.