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Web analytics · October 2026 Edition

Microsoft Clarity vs PostHog

Zero of fourteen models named Microsoft Clarity first on the direct prompt; one named PostHog. Microsoft Clarity was named by eleven of the fourteen models and PostHog by eleven and Microsoft Clarity carries 19 labels and PostHog 18, so the shares are not directly comparable.

Microsoft Clarity

accepted challenger

By Microsoft, Vancouver, Canada, founded 1975. Named in five categories this edition.

PostHog

accepted challenger

Named in seven categories this edition.

First-choice share3%2%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate11%6%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#5#8A position in a field of 14; printed, not drawn.
Labels1918A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Microsoft Clarity reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.Google Analytics 4 was named alongside these two in thirteen of the fourteen direct answers. Google Analytics 4 vs Microsoft Clarity · Google Analytics 4 vs PostHog · Amplitude vs Microsoft Clarity

Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the web analytics page.

By framing

How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Microsoft ClarityFirst choices, of fourteen modelsPostHog
Direct01
Paraphrase00
Comparative00
Budget-constrained201 against PostHog
Scale-constrained00
Negative002 against Microsoft Clarity
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.

Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Microsoft Clarity and PostHog were named in the same answer ninety-three times, of the 229 answers naming Microsoft Clarity and the 386 naming PostHog. In those answers PostHog took the first choice ten times and Microsoft Clarity thirty-six.

Every model, every framing

The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Microsoft Clarity and PostHog stood in it.
ModelDirectParaphraseComparativeBudget-constrainedScale-constrainedNegative
Claude Haiku 4.5
GPT-5.4 mini
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Perplexity Sonar
Grok 4.1 Fast
Mistral Small
DeepSeek V4 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick
Qwen 3.7 Flash
Kimi K2
GLM 4.7 FlashX
MiniMax M2.5
GPT-6 Luna
Muse Glimmer 30B
Microsoft Clarity PostHog first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Microsoft Clarity on the left and PostHog on the right.

The direct prompt

The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Microsoft Clarity and PostHog stood in it.

PostHog first, Microsoft Clarity not the choice

1 of 14 modelsMicrosoft Clarity was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.
GPT-6 LunaGoogle Analytics 4, PostHog alternatives: Amplitude, Matomo

Neither was the first choice, one was named

2 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.
Claude Haiku 4.5Google Analytics 4 alternatives: Coffee, Microsoft Clarity, Mixpanel, PostHog
Muse Glimmer 30BGoogle Analytics 4 alternatives: Amplitude, BigQuery, Dealfront, Matomo, Mixpanel, Piwik PRO, PostHog, Similarweb, Sona, ZoomInfo WebSights

Neither was named

11 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.
GPT-5.4 miniGoogle Analytics 4 alternatives: Matomo, Piwik PRO
Gemini 3.5 FlashFactors.ai alternatives: Dealfront, Dreamdata, Fathom Analytics, HockeyStack, HubSpot Marketing Hub, Plausible Analytics
Perplexity SonarGoogle Analytics 4 alternatives: HubSpot Marketing Hub, Matomo, Piwik PRO, Similarweb
Grok 4.1 FastGoogle Analytics 4 alternatives: Amplitude, Mixpanel
Mistral SmallGoogle Analytics 4 alternatives: Contentsquare, Glassbox, Mixpanel
DeepSeek V4 FlashGoogle Analytics 4 alternatives: Amplitude, Dreamdata, Factors.ai, Fathom, Matomo, Mixpanel, Piwik PRO, Plausible Analytics, Sona
Llama 4 MaverickGoogle Analytics 4 alternatives: Contentsquare, Glassbox, Mixpanel
Qwen 3.7 FlashDealfront, Sona alternatives: Amplitude, Google Analytics 4, Matomo, Mixpanel, Piwik PRO
Kimi K2BigQuery, Google Analytics 4 alternatives: Amplitude, Attribution, Mixpanel, Ruler Analytics
GLM 4.7 FlashXGoogle Analytics 4 alternatives: Adobe Marketo Measure, Dreamdata, Matomo, Ruler Analytics
MiniMax M2.5BigQuery, Google Analytics 4, Mixpanel alternatives: Amplitude, Heap, Matomo

Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.

By buyer segment

The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Level: the same share of first choices.
Microsoft Clarity2%#6 of 13
PostHog2%#7 of 13
The full small business standing →
Mid-marketThe figures above
Microsoft Clarity leads by two points.
Microsoft Clarity3%#5 of 14
PostHog2%#8 of 14
The full mid-market standing →
Enterprise
Level: the same share of first choices.
Microsoft Clarity0%#– of 11
PostHog0%#– of 11
The full enterprise standing →

What the models said about Microsoft Clarity

No label in this category carried a quote.

What the models said about PostHog

No label in this category carried a quote.

Also compared

Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.