PostHog Cost Optimization
Cut your PostHog bill by finding high-volume events, climbing trends, and pageview noise. OhChimp writes the plan, and you decide when to apply it.
What OhChimp optimizes for PostHog
Some of the cost levers OhChimp checks for PostHog. Each one becomes a reviewable plan you approve before anything changes.
High-volume event ingestion
PostHog bills on the events you send, so one chatty event can dominate the invoice. OhChimp queries an event over a time window and counts what is actually coming in, so you can see which events drive the volume and plan to trim or sample the noisy ones.
Event trends over time
A single event that creeps up week over week is how an ingestion bill grows without anyone noticing. OhChimp pulls per-event trends across a window at a daily, hourly, or weekly interval, so you can spot the events that are climbing and act before the next billing cycle.
Pageview event volume
Default pageview events pile up fast and often carry little analytical value. OhChimp counts pageview events over your chosen window, so you can decide which high-frequency events are worth keeping at full volume.
Project-by-project visibility
Events spread across several projects make it hard to see where the volume sits. OhChimp lists the projects your key can reach and reads event activity for the project it is connected to, so the spend has an owner instead of hiding in an aggregate.
Worked example
For example, say OhChimp queries your project and finds one custom event firing far more than any other, plus a pageview trend that has been climbing for weeks.
It writes a plan to sample or trim those high-volume events, each with a confidence score and rollback steps. You press apply. OhChimp cannot yet measure what a single PostHog plan saves, so it does not mark one VERIFIED.
PostHog cost optimization FAQ
How does OhChimp connect to PostHog?
With a read-only Personal API key over HTTPS to your PostHog host, which can be PostHog Cloud or self-hosted. OhChimp validates the host against an allowlist, lists the projects the key can reach, and reads event counts and trends. It never stores application data, secrets, or workload contents.
Does OhChimp need write access or see my data?
No. OhChimp uses a read-only key and reads analytics metadata: event counts, event trends, and the projects your key can access. It does not write to PostHog. It does not store application data, secrets, or workload contents.
What PostHog costs can OhChimp actually reduce?
PostHog bills on event volume, so OhChimp focuses there. It counts which events drive your ingestion, reads how event volume is trending over time, counts your pageview event volume, and reads event activity for the project your key is connected to.
Who applies the changes, and can they be rolled back?
You do. Every fix is a reviewable plan with a confidence score, a risk level, and rollback steps. Nothing changes until you click apply, and you are always the one who clicks.
How are PostHog savings verified, and what does it cost?
Today PostHog savings stay estimates. OhChimp cannot yet measure what a single PostHog plan saves, so it does not mark one VERIFIED. The only savings OhChimp measures today come from lowering the CPU and memory requests of a Kubernetes Deployment, StatefulSet, or DaemonSet. Pricing is a flat monthly fee with no cut of your savings, plus a year-one ROI guarantee that lets you request a refund of your first 12 months of subscription fees if the verified savings on your Costs tab fall short of them. Estimated savings do not count.
Related integrations
Teams running PostHog usually run these too. OhChimp finds the waste in each and drafts every fix as a plan you approve.
Coralogix
Log volume, retention tiers, and ingest
New Relic
Data ingest, user seats, and retention
Datadog
Custom metrics, log retention, and host count