Top 5 Product Analytics Tools for B2B SaaS
PostHog, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap, and Plausible compared for product teams weighing depth versus privacy and cost.
1 min readSalt Index
Analytics tools promise truth and often deliver dashboards nobody opens. Here is a salt-worthy shortlist for B2B SaaS.
1. PostHog — best all-in-one for product engineering teams
Events, session replay, flags, experiments — especially compelling self-hosted or product-led. Can replace several point tools.
2. Mixpanel — best polished event analytics UX
Strong for funnel and retention analysis with a mature query experience.
3. Amplitude — best taxonomy discipline at scale
Powerful behavioral cohorts; rewards teams that invest in clean tracking plans.
4. Heap — best “capture now, ask later” energy
Autocapture reduces instrumentation lag; you still need governance to avoid swamp data.
5. Plausible — best lightweight privacy-first web analytics
Not a full product-analytics suite — included because many SaaS marketing sites need simplicity, not another CDP.
Decision rule
If engineers own insights, trial PostHog. If growth analysts own insights, trial Mixpanel/Amplitude. If you only need website traffic without creepy tracking, Plausible may be enough.
Is it worth its salt? Only if someone will act on the charts.

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