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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 10 GB free – every month!
Retention
Keep logs and traces longer than the 14-day default. Custom retention bills for the data you keep, not this month's usage: each GB costs $0.05 for every month you keep it, until it expires. Set it per service or per source in your logs and traces settings. Your Logs billing limit stops ingestion but doesn't cap custom retention, and custom retention can't have a limit of its own.
AllocationUnit priceYour selectionSubtotal
All GB-months0$0.05/GB-month$0
14 days (included)
$0The 14-day default is included in the ingestion price.
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.
