Sazabi vs PostHog: How They Compare for Product and Platform Teams
Prices and facts checked on vendor pages on Nov 7, 2026.
PostHog is a product platform that bundles analytics, session replay, feature flags, error tracking, and a logs product. It fits product and growth engineers who want user behavior and backend logs in one place. Sazabi is AI-native observability and security for teams that want production issues found and investigated from their logs. Sazabi wrote this page, so check each fact against the linked sources.
At a Glance
How PostHog Works and Charges
PostHog prices each product separately and gives each one a free monthly allowance. The pricing page lists 1M analytics events, 5K session recordings, 1M feature flag requests, 100K exceptions, and 10 GB of logs. You pay only for the products you use, and you can set billing limits on most of them. All prices are in US dollars, excluding taxes.
The two products closest to Sazabi's territory are Logs and Error Tracking. Figures below are from PostHog's own pages, checked on November 7, 2026.
PostHog Logs takes OpenTelemetry data from standard clients, lets you search by service, severity, and attribute, and supports log alerts. Its MCP server lets a coding agent query and count logs, list attributes, and manage alerts, and PostHog AI can explain a record. The pricing FAQ says storing data costs nothing extra for most products, with the exception of Logs retention beyond the 14-day default.
How Sazabi Works and Charges
Sazabi reads your logs and opens an issue when it finds a problem worth attention, with the evidence and root cause attached. It does not write code. It hands the investigation to your coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and others) through MCP, the CLI, or the API.
Sazabi bills a plan plus usage rather than one meter per product. The plans are Hobby at $50, Startup at $200, and Growth at $1,000 for each 30-day cycle, and all three share the same allowances: 200 GB ingested, 50 GB scanned, 20 issues, and 500 AI credits. Overage is $0.10 per GB ingested, $0.10 per GB scanned, $4 per issue, and $0.01 per AI credit. Plans differ in retention and workspace limits, and yearly billing is not offered. See Sazabi pricing.
Worked Example: Logs at Two Volumes
Assumptions: logs only, a 30-day month, 50% of ingested data scanned by queries, and Sazabi with no extra issues or AI credits. PostHog is shown at its starting rate of $0.25 per GB after the 10 GB free, which is an upper bound because the page says the rate reduces with volume. The example excludes PostHog retention beyond 14 days and any query charge, since the pricing page lists no separate query meter for Logs.
At 300 GB per month, PostHog Logs cost less than Sazabi Startup and roughly match Sazabi Hobby. At 3,000 GB per month, the PostHog upper bound is higher than both Sazabi plans, although actual PostHog volume pricing may be lower. If your logs stay small and you already use PostHog, its bill will likely be smaller.
Key Differences for a Log-Centered Team
Product questions versus production questions. PostHog starts from users: events, sessions, flags, and the exceptions behind them. Sazabi starts from what your services emit and asks what is going wrong. PostHog Error Tracking turns exceptions into issues, with the affected user's session replay and events attached. For a closer look at errors versus logs, read the Sentry comparison.
Logs inside a bigger platform. PostHog Logs sits next to analytics and replay, so a backend log can link to a user session. Sazabi does not list product analytics or feature flags. Sazabi's Browser and React Native SDKs capture errors, console output, network calls with trace context, user interactions, navigation and session identity from web and mobile apps. They do not capture Core Web Vitals or session replay. Choose it for logs and issue investigation, not as a PostHog replacement.
They can feed each other. PostHog's Data Pipeline can post each matching event to Sazabi, where it is stored as a log. Connecting your PostHog account lets Sazabi install and maintain that webhook destination for each project you pick. The Sazabi agent can also read PostHog analytics, feature flags, and experiment results through an MCP connector. The connector grants read and write access, so use the read-only option if you want to restrict it.
Security scanning. Sazabi also scans connected repositories for vulnerabilities and files confirmed findings as issues.
Compliance. Sazabi holds SOC 2 Type II, SOC 1, ISO 27001 and ISO 27017 certifications. Anyone who signs an NDA, customer or not, can request the SOC 2 Type II report and ISO 27001 audit reports from the Sazabi Trust Center. HIPAA safeguards are available on select plans. BYOC is documented for AWS only.
When to Pick PostHog
- You want analytics, session replay, feature flags, and experiments in one product.
- Your logs are modest and 14-day retention is enough, so the 10 GB free allowance and low per-GB rate cover you.
- You want logs linked to user sessions and product events.
- You want usage-based pricing with no minimum spend and billing limits.
- Your team already runs on PostHog and prefers one vendor for error tracking and logs.
When to Pick Sazabi
- Your incidents start in backend logs, and you want issues delivered with the root cause already investigated.
- You need retention of 30 or 90 days bundled into a flat plan.
- You want coding agents to read production context through MCP or the CLI.
- Your log volume is large enough that a flat plan is easier to forecast than a per-GB meter. Browse the integration catalog for sources.
- You want an agent that can query PostHog, Datadog, or other tools you already use during an investigation.
Trying Sazabi Alongside PostHog
Keep PostHog for analytics and replay. Connect the PostHog integration for one project so analytics and error events flow to Sazabi as logs, and add an OpenTelemetry exporter in one backend service so Sazabi sees what produced them. See OpenTelemetry for the setup. Connect the PostHog MCP connector if you want the agent to look up flags and experiments mid-investigation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can PostHog events be sent to Sazabi?
Yes. Sazabi can install and maintain an HTTP Webhook destination in PostHog Data Pipeline for each project you select, and it stores every matching event as a log. You can also configure that destination yourself.
Does PostHog have its own logs product?
Yes. PostHog Logs accepts OpenTelemetry data and lists a 10 GB monthly free allowance, with pricing that starts at $0.25 per GB after that. Logs are kept 14 days by default, checked in November 2026.
Does Sazabi replace PostHog product analytics or session replay?
No. PostHog lists product analytics, session replay, feature flags and experiments. Sazabi does not list product analytics, feature flags or experiments. Sazabi's Browser and React Native SDKs capture errors, console output, network calls with trace context, user interactions, navigation and session identity from web and mobile apps. They do not capture Core Web Vitals or session replay. Sazabi focuses on logs, issue detection and investigation, and its agent can query PostHog analytics and flags through an MCP connector.
Is PostHog or Sazabi cheaper for logs?
It depends on volume and retention. At 300 GB per month, PostHog logs cost up to $72.50 at the starting rate and Sazabi Startup costs $220 under the stated assumptions, while at 3,000 GB per month the Sazabi figure is lower. See the worked example on this page for the assumptions.
Sources
- Free monthly allowances, per-product usage pricing, event rates in the calculator, log retention and custom retention price (accessed Nov 7, 2026)
- PostHog Logs scope, OpenTelemetry ingestion, MCP access, alerts, AI prompts, and the log pricing line of 10 GB free then starting at $0.25 per GB (accessed Nov 7, 2026)
- Error tracking scope and the 100,000 free exceptions then starting at $0.00037 per exception (accessed Nov 7, 2026)
- Product analytics scope (accessed Nov 7, 2026)
- Sazabi plan prices, included usage, overage rates and retention (accessed Nov 7, 2026)
- Sazabi product description and capabilities (accessed Nov 7, 2026)
- Sazabi installs a PostHog HTTP Webhook destination that stores each matching event as a log (accessed Nov 7, 2026)
- Manual PostHog webhook setup for analytics and error events (accessed Nov 7, 2026)
- The PostHog MCP connector for analytics, feature flags and experiments (accessed Nov 8, 2026)
- BYOC availability on AWS (accessed Nov 8, 2026)