Experiments

Test changes with statistical significance

A/B tests, multivariate tests, and robust targeting & exclusion rules. Analyze usage with product analytics and session replay.

Screenshot of managing an A/B test in PostHog
  • boosted community engagement by 40%

    "Y Combinator uses PostHog's experiments to try new ideas, which has led to significant improvements."

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  • tests product changes for over 25M users

    "Our data scientists are able to rapidly and autonomously iterate on the data models that power our home feed."

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  • increased registrations by 30%

    "This experiment cuts drop-off in half – that's a 50% improvement without a single user complaining!"

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  • switched from Mixpanel for a leaner stack

    "I feel like, every single week, we discover something new that makes a difference."

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Features

  • Customizable goals

    Conversion funnels or trends, secondary metrics, and range for statistical significance

  • Targeting & exclusion rules

    Set criteria for user location, person property, cohort, or group

  • Recommendations

    Automatic suggestions for duration, sample size, and confidence threshold in a winning variant

  • Built on Feature Flags

    All the benefits of feature flags with added functionality around stat-sig experiments

  • JSON payloads

    Modify website content per-variant without additional deployments

  • Split testing

    Automatically split traffic between variants

  • Multivariate testing

    Test up to 9 variants against a control

  • Dynamic cohort support

    Add new users to an experiment automatically by setting a person property

Answer all of these questions (and more) with PostHog Experiments.

  • Does this new onboarding flow increase conversion?
  • How does this affect adoption in Europe?
  • Will enterprise customers like this new feature?

Usage-based pricing

Use Experiments free. Or enter a credit card for advanced features. Either way, your first 1,000,000 requests are free – every month.

Note: Experiments and Feature Flags are currently packaged together and share volume limits.

Free

No credit card required

All other plans

All features, no limitations

Requests

1,000,000/mo

Unlimited

Features

Boolean feature flags
Included
Included
Multivariate feature flags & experiments
Included
Included
Persist flags across authentication
Included
Included
Test changes without code
Included
Included
Multiple release conditions
Included
Included
Release condition overrides
Included
Included
Flag targeting by groups
Included
Included
Local evaluation & bootstrapping
Included
Included
Flag usage stats
Included
Included
Experiments
Included
Included
Funnel & trend experiments
Included
Included
Secondary experiment metrics
Included
Included
Statistical analysis
Included
Included
Group experiments
Not included
Included
Multi-environment support
Not included
Included
Data retention

1 year

7 years

Monthly pricing

First 1 million requests
Free
1-2 million
$0.000100/request
2-10 million
$0.000045/request
10-50 million
$0.000025/request
50 million+
$0.000010/request

FAQs

PostHog vs...

VWO
Unlimited experiments
Multivariate experiments
Secondary goals
Minimum goals
Duration prediction
Cross-domain experiments
Traffic allocation
Target by location
Target by cohort
Target by person property

So, what's best for you?

Reasons a competitor may be best for you (for now...)

  • No-code experiments or CMS capabilities
    • You'll still need a designer/engineer to create experiments
  • No integration with Google Ads
    • PostHog can't run ad experiments, or target users into an experiment based on an ad variant engagement.

Reasons to choose

  • Integration with other PostHog products
    • Attach surveys to experiments or view replays for a test group. Analyze results beyond your initial hypothesis or goal metric.
  • Automated recommendations for sample sizes and runtime
  • Automatic significance calculator – to help you figure out the winning variant as quickly as possible
  • Robust targeting and exclusion options, including cohorts and location
    • Anything you monitor in analytics, you can target in an experiment

Have questions about PostHog?
Ask the community or book a demo.

Featured tutorials

Visit the tutorials section for more.

  • Running experiments on new users

    Optimizing the initial experience of new users is critical for turning them into existing users. Products have a limited amount of time and attention from new users before they leave and churn.

    Read more
  • How to set up A/B/n testing

    A/B/n testing is like an A/B test where you compare multiple (n) variants instead of just two. It can be especially useful for small but impactful changes where many options are available like copy, styles, or pages.

    Read more
  • How to run holdout testing

    Holdout testing is a type of A/B testing that measures the long term effects of product changes. In holdout testing, a small group of users is not shown your changes for a long period of time, typically weeks or months after your experiment ends.

    Read more
  • How to do A/A testing

    An A/A test is the same as an A/B test except both groups receive the same code or components. Teams run A/A tests to ensure their A/B test service, functionality, and implementation work as expected and provides accurate results.

    Read more

Install & customize

Here are some ways you can fine tune how you implement Experiments.

Explore the docs

Get a more technical overview of how everything works in our docs.

Meet the team

PostHog works in small teams. The Experiments team is responsible for building Experiments.

(Shockingly, this team prefers their pizza without pineapple.)

Roadmap & changelog

Here’s what the team is up to.

Latest update

Oct 2024

Custom experiment previews now available

You've probably noticed that it's tricky to tell variants apart from both each other and the control in the PostHog UI.

To solve this, Juraj has added the ability to upload custom screenshots for each variant as an experiment preview.

This is especially useful if you're working on experiments that adjust small page elements, or if your traffic requires that experiments run for a long time to reach statistical significance.

Up next

  • No-code experiments / Visual editor

    A visual editor for experiments would allow users to test changes to their website / app without having to touch the code.

    Milestones
    Project updates

    No updates yet. Engineers are currently hard at work, so check back soon!

Questions?

See more questions (or ask your own!) in our community forums.

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