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Rohit Raj
Rohit Raj

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PostHog vs Mixpanel vs Amplitude — Best Product Analytics for India MVP (2026)

Originally published on rohitraj.tech

PostHog wins for engineering-led India MVPs because it self-hosts on AWS Mumbai for DPDP compliance and bundles session replay + feature flags into one tier. Mixpanel wins for PM-heavy teams that want the lowest learning curve. Amplitude wins for funded teams with a dedicated analyst. The real cost gap at 10M events/month is 8×. Here is the math, the data-residency reality, and the exact stack I run on myFinancial.


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