PostHog vs Superset

Both are self-hosted analytics projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

PostHog and Superset are closely matched on maintenance health (99 vs 98). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
PostHogSuperset
Health score 99/100 98/100
Commits (11 mo) 29699 4805
Commits (last 3 mo) 14473 2287
Stars 40k 75k
Latest release 27 Sept 2026 9 Sept 2026
Licence MIT Apache-2.0
Built with Python Python
Typical RAM 2 GB 2 GB

PostHog

Product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and a/b testing that you can self-host (alternative to Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap, HotJar, Optimizely).

99/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 40/40
Releases 25/25
Community 19/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity in the top 1% of tracked projects; popularity more than 95%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 1333 commits 2025-11: 1106 commits 2025-12: 1350 commits 2026-01: 1616 commits 2026-02: 2149 commits 2026-03: 2586 commits 2026-04: 2801 commits 2026-05: 2285 commits 2026-06: 4562 commits 2026-07: 5097 commits 2026-08: 4814 commits

Superset

Modern data exploration and visualization platform.

98/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 39/40
Releases 25/25
Community 20/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 97% of tracked projects; popularity in the top 1%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 221 commits 2025-11: 162 commits 2025-12: 256 commits 2026-01: 343 commits 2026-02: 330 commits 2026-03: 322 commits 2026-04: 410 commits 2026-05: 474 commits 2026-06: 751 commits 2026-07: 808 commits 2026-08: 728 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

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