Can I ask Claude about traffic the way PostHog MCP does?

For pageviews, sources, live, and Growth funnels — yes, POST /mcp with OAuth 2.1 or a hashed bearer. Not HogQL, not session replay, not feature flags. PostHog’s MCP is the right tool if you already live in PostHog. We are the cookieless dashboard in the editor.

Is Cookie Free Analytics a PostHog alternative?

No, if you use PostHog as a product platform. Yes, if you only wanted unblocked pageviews on a marketing site and someone installed PostHog for that.

vs PostHog

PostHog is a product OS. We count pages.

People search “PostHog alternative” when the bill arrived or the toolbar scared the lawyer. Cookie Free Analytics is not a smaller PostHog. It is a different tool.

	Cookie Free Analytics	PostHog
Job	Web pageviews	Product analytics + flags + replay
Cookies / identify	No cookies. HMAC, salt deleted daily	Usually identify users
Script	Under 1 KB gzipped	A real product bundle
Session replay	Will not ship	Yes
Self-host	No	Yes
Hosted	Frankfurt + Ireland	Their cloud / yours
MCP	Hosted /mcp, dashboard aggregates, no hashes	Official HogQL MCP; cookies and identify are usual

What they actually are

PostHog is funnels, feature flags, session replay, experiments, CDP-shaped pipelines. You can self-host it. The script is not 1 KB. Cookies or identifying users is normal because the job is “what did this account do”. Cloud is generous then expensive.

When to pick them

You have signed-in users, you ship flags, you watch replays, you care about activation. That is product analytics. Buy PostHog or Mixpanel. Not us.

When to pick us

You wanted to know whether the pricing page ran, without a second Google. Marketing sites, docs, blogs. If someone says “just put PostHog on the brochure site”, they are over-instrumenting.

The honest bit

We will never catch their feature list. Comparing pageview price to PostHog usage is a category error we will not make in a table and then hide.

Questions

Can I ask Claude about traffic the way PostHog MCP does?: For pageviews, sources, live, and Growth funnels — yes, POST /mcp with OAuth 2.1 or a hashed bearer. Not HogQL, not session replay, not feature flags. PostHog’s MCP is the right tool if you already live in PostHog. We are the cookieless dashboard in the editor.
Is Cookie Free Analytics a PostHog alternative?: No, if you use PostHog as a product platform. Yes, if you only wanted unblocked pageviews on a marketing site and someone installed PostHog for that.

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