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Logs & Tracing
Logs and Tracing are billed together, by the number of GB ingested across both. The price per GB changes based on your usage. Retention is 14 days by default; set custom retention per service or per source at $0.05/GB per month retained.
AllocationUnit priceYour selectionSubtotal
First 10 GBs/mo10Free$0
10-3000$0.25/GB$0
300+0$0.15/GB$0
GBs/mo
First 0 GBs free – every month!
Estimated monthly cost
$0PostHog vs...
An honest comparison, tl;dr:
Choose a competitor if...
- You need a specialized, deep full-featured tracing today as a separate tool.
- Your workflow is infrastructure-first, built around hosts, dashboards, and on-call.
- You want the deepest trace tooling and are happy running a separate observability vendor for it.
Go with if...
- You want traces in the same project as your errors, replays, logs, and product analytics. That is the context that powers self-driving.
- You want an agent that reads the trace to locate a fix and open the PR, from your Inbox or by tagging in Slack.
- You want OpenTelemetry-native tracing with no proprietary SDK to adopt.
- You’d rather pay for usage than per host.
- You’re already in PostHog and want one less tool to run.











