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How PostHog’s scores are calculated

The full audit trail, recomputed from the verdict data at build time through the same code that produced the leaderboard: verdict × quality × story weight per cell, cells sum to dimension scores, dimensions blend into the PA Score. Every number on the product page is reproducible from this page alone; for why the formula looks like this, see the methodology.

verdict factors: full ×1.0 · partial ×0.6 · disputed ×0.3 · none ×0.0 · n/a excluded from both sides · cell points = weight × quality × factor · cell max = weight × 10

PA Score41/100

Agent-ready 56.1 × 0.30 = 16.83

API quality 30.9 × 0.20 = 6.18

Openness 47.3 × 0.20 = 9.46

Built-in AI 18.7 × 0.15 = 2.80

Automation 39.8 × 0.15 = 5.97

(16.83 + 6.18 + 9.46 + 2.80 + 5.97) ÷ (0.30 + 0.20 + 0.20 + 0.15 + 0.15) = 41.24 ÷ 1.00 = 41.2

Scores are stored to 1 decimal; the product page’s pills round to whole numbers for display. Each dimension below shows the stories, verdicts, and cited evidence behind its number.

Agent-ready56.1/100×0.30 of the PA blend

Outside-in: can YOUR agent reach and drive this product — API, MCP, CLI, headless runs, agent docs.

Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docsweight 2

2 (weight) × 9 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 18.0 of 20 max

  • [probe] https://posthog.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 200 at https://posthog.com/llms.txt # PostHog > PostHog is the platform for self-driving products. It pairs the full context of your product's data (events”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“"Show me the full stack trace for the most recent crash, then propose a fix." – Pulls the stack trace, error message, and metadata so the agent can suggest code changes.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“with just plain text questions your agents can ship a feature flag from a prompt, dig into a stack trace without leaving your editor, run a HogQL query through Claude”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“your agents can ship a feature flag from a prompt, dig into a stack trace without leaving your editor, run a HogQL query through Claude”
  • [probe] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol“official MCP server documented at https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol”
  • [probe] https://posthog.com/docs.md“PROBE docs-md: HTTP 404 at https://posthog.com/docs.md”

Run the product headlessly / in CI for automationweight 2

2 (weight) × 7 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 14.0 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cli.md“The PostHog CLI lets you use PostHog from your terminal, your coding agents, local scripts, and CI/CD pipelines.”
  • [probe] https://posthog.com/docs/cli“official CLI documented at https://posthog.com/docs/cli”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/api.md“capture events from any language that can send HTTP requests”
  • [probe] https://posthog.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: HTTP 200 at https://posthog.com/openapi.json — contains "openapi" key”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cli.md“Inject and upload source maps for PostHog error tracking”

Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their toolsweight 3

3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/product-analytics.md“Run trends, funnels, retention, and SQL queries from any MCP client or AI editor.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“"Show me the full stack trace for the most recent crash, then propose a fix." – Pulls the stack trace, error message, and metadata so the agent can suggest code changes.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“with just plain text questions your agents can ship a feature flag from a prompt, dig into a stack trace without leaving your editor, run a HogQL query through Claude”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“your agents can ship a feature flag from a prompt, dig into a stack trace without leaving your editor, run a HogQL query through Claude”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“with just plain text questions your agents can ship a feature flag from a prompt, dig into a stack trace without leaving your editor”
  • [probe] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol“official MCP server documented at https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol”
  • [github] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog“You can steer it all from Slack, web, desktop (PostHog Desktop), or your own editor via the MCP.”

Connect an agent via an official MCP serverweight 3

3 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 24.0 of 30 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“"Show me the full stack trace for the most recent crash, then propose a fix." – Pulls the stack trace, error message, and metadata so the agent can suggest code changes.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“with just plain text questions your agents can ship a feature flag from a prompt, dig into a stack trace without leaving your editor, run a HogQL query through Claude”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“your agents can ship a feature flag from a prompt, dig into a stack trace without leaving your editor, run a HogQL query through Claude”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“with just plain text questions your agents can ship a feature flag from a prompt, dig into a stack trace without leaving your editor”
  • [github] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog“You can steer it all from Slack, web, desktop (PostHog Desktop), or your own editor via the MCP.”
  • [probe] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol“official MCP server documented at https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol”

Use an official CLIweight 2

2 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 16.0 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cli.md“The PostHog CLI lets you use PostHog from your terminal, your coding agents, local scripts, and CI/CD pipelines.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cli.md“Inject and upload source maps for PostHog error tracking”
  • [probe] https://posthog.com/docs/cli“official CLI documented at https://posthog.com/docs/cli”

Drive the product through a documented public APIweight 3

3 (weight) × 9 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 27.0 of 30 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/api.md“capture events from any language that can send HTTP requests”
  • [probe] https://posthog.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: HTTP 200 at https://posthog.com/openapi.json — contains "openapi" key”
  • [probe] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol“official MCP server documented at https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol”
  • [probe] https://posthog.com/docs/cli“official CLI documented at https://posthog.com/docs/cli”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“with just plain text questions your agents can ship a feature flag from a prompt, dig into a stack trace without leaving your editor, run a HogQL query through Claude”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cli.md“The PostHog CLI lets you use PostHog from your terminal, your coding agents, local scripts, and CI/CD pipelines.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“"Show me the full stack trace for the most recent crash, then propose a fix." – Pulls the stack trace, error message, and metadata so the agent can suggest code changes.”

Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agentweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Build against official SDKsweight 2

2 (weight) × 7 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 14.0 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/api.md“capture events from any language that can send HTTP requests”
  • [probe] https://posthog.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: HTTP 200 at https://posthog.com/openapi.json — contains "openapi" key”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cli.md“The PostHog CLI lets you use PostHog from your terminal, your coding agents, local scripts, and CI/CD pipelines.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“your agents can ship a feature flag from a prompt, dig into a stack trace without leaving your editor, run a HogQL query through Claude”
  • [github] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog“Capture traces, generations, latency, and cost for your LLM-powered app.”
  • [github] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog“AI observability: Capture traces, generations, latency, and cost for your LLM-powered app.”
  • [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22376732“I've been using PostHog with my app for about a week now, and so far the results have been good. Pretty straightforward to integrate with a Swift iOS app too!”
  • [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663544“I really wish you guys would do something about the llm integration, I tried using it two days ago to create a cohort of users using a sql query, and I was surprised to see that it said that it could not create cohorts for me... a cohort cannot use a sql query. However the worst part was it just writing in the text input slowed down my m4 pro chip to less than 1 fps after 2 prompts.”

Subscribe to events via webhooksweight 2

2 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 4.8 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cdp.md“It pulls data in from the tools you already use, lets you filter and reshape events as they're ingested, and sends the result wherever it needs to go”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cdp.md“It pulls data in from the tools you already use, lets you filter and reshape events as they're ingested, and sends the result wherever it needs to go – in realtime or on a schedule.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/cdp“Slack: Send events to Slack channels SaaS tools: Send events to SaaS tools like Braze, Customer.io, and more”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/cdp“Send alerts to Slack, PagerDuty, or monitoring tools”
  • [github] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog“Create workflows that automate actions or send messages to your users.”

Agent-ready = 117.8 ÷ 210 × 100 = 56.1

API quality30.9/100×0.20 of the PA blend

The programmable surface once an agent is there — machine-readable spec, interactive docs, sandbox, versioning discipline.

Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examplesweight 2

2 (weight) × 3 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 3.6 of 20 max

  • [probe] https://posthog.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: HTTP 200 at https://posthog.com/openapi.json — contains "openapi" key”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/api.md“capture events from any language that can send HTTP requests”

Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)weight 2

2 (weight) × 9 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 18.0 of 20 max

  • [probe] https://posthog.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: HTTP 200 at https://posthog.com/openapi.json — contains "openapi" key”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/api.md“capture events from any language that can send HTTP requests”

Test against a sandbox environment without touching production dataweight 1

1 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 10 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policyweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

  • [probe] https://posthog.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: HTTP 200 at https://posthog.com/openapi.json — contains "openapi" key”

API quality = 21.6 ÷ 70 × 100 = 30.9

Openness47.3/100×0.20 of the PA blend

Can you leave, inspect, or self-host — data export, open source, portability.

Do everything through the API that I can do in the UIweight 2

2 (weight) × 7 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 14.0 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/product-analytics.md“Run trends, funnels, retention, and SQL queries from any MCP client or AI editor.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/api.md“capture events from any language that can send HTTP requests”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“"Show me the full stack trace for the most recent crash, then propose a fix." – Pulls the stack trace, error message, and metadata so the agent can suggest code changes.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“with just plain text questions your agents can ship a feature flag from a prompt, dig into a stack trace without leaving your editor, run a HogQL query through Claude”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cli.md“The PostHog CLI lets you use PostHog from your terminal, your coding agents, local scripts, and CI/CD pipelines.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/sql.md“You can use SQL (Structured Query Language) throughout PostHog to manage, query, and modify data.”
  • [probe] https://posthog.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: HTTP 200 at https://posthog.com/openapi.json — contains "openapi" key”
  • [probe] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol“official MCP server documented at https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol”
  • [probe] https://posthog.com/docs/cli“official CLI documented at https://posthog.com/docs/cli”

Export all of my data in open formats and leaveweight 3

3 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 10.8 of 30 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/self-host.md“PostHog is open-source and freely available for anyone to host themselves. We offer a free Docker Compose deployment under an MIT license.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/self-host.md“We offer a free Docker Compose deployment under an MIT license.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/sql.md“You can use SQL (Structured Query Language) throughout PostHog to manage, query, and modify data.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/sql.md“SQL insights enable you to directly query your data with SQL commands like SELECT, FROM, JOIN, WHERE, GROUP BY”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/data-warehouse.md“Sync Stripe, Postgres, Salesforce, HubSpot, and dozens of other sources, then query them alongside your events, persons, and sessions in one SQL query”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/api.md“capture events from any language that can send HTTP requests”
  • [probe] https://posthog.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: HTTP 200 at https://posthog.com/openapi.json — contains "openapi" key”

Read the product's source under an open licenseweight 2

2 (weight) × 9 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 18.0 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/self-host.md“We offer a free Docker Compose deployment under an MIT license.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/self-host.md“PostHog is open-source and freely available for anyone to host themselves. We offer a free Docker Compose deployment under an MIT license.”

Self-host the core productweight 3

3 (weight) × 5 (quality) × 0.3 (disputed) = 4.5 of 30 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/self-host.md“We offer a free Docker Compose deployment under an MIT license.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/self-host.md“PostHog is open-source and freely available for anyone to host themselves. We offer a free Docker Compose deployment under an MIT license.”
  • [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22376732“You should mention on the README that the production dockerfile (and posthog/posthog:latest) are busted, they do not create any database. Spent last hour debugging it :) Otherwise, looking really good!”

Openness = 47.3 ÷ 100 × 100 = 47.3

Built-in AI18.7/100×0.15 of the PA blend

Inside-out: how agentic the product itself is for its users — built-in assistants, autonomous features.

Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the productweight 2

2 (weight) × 5 (quality) × 0.3 (disputed) = 3.0 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“"Show me the full stack trace for the most recent crash, then propose a fix." – Pulls the stack trace, error message, and metadata so the agent can suggest code changes.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cdp.md“Pipelines are built from Hog functions, which you can configure from a template, write yourself, or have PostHog AI write for you.”
  • [github] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog“Turn signals in your product data (errors, rage clicks, failed queries, and more) into researched reports and pull requests you review and merge.”
  • [probe] https://posthog.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 200 at https://posthog.com/llms.txt # PostHog > PostHog is the platform for self-driving products. It pairs the full context of your product's data (events”
  • [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663544“I really wish you guys would do something about the llm integration, I tried using it two days ago to create a cohort of users using a sql query, and I was surprised to see that it said that it could not create cohorts for me... a cohort cannot use a sql query. However the worst part was it just writing in the text input slowed down my m4 pro chip to less than 1 fps after 2 prompts.”

Set up automations that run autonomously in the backgroundweight 2

2 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 7.2 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cdp.md“It pulls data in from the tools you already use, lets you filter and reshape events as they're ingested, and sends the result wherever it needs to go – in realtime or on a schedule.”
  • [github] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog“Create workflows that automate actions or send messages to your users.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cdp.md“Pipelines are built from Hog functions, which you can configure from a template, write yourself, or have PostHog AI write for you.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/product-analytics.md“Build insights, assemble dashboards, share them, and set alerts on the numbers that matter.”
  • [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663544“I really wish you guys would do something about the llm integration, I tried using it two days ago to create a cohort of users using a sql query, and I was surprised to see that it said that it could not create cohorts for me... a cohort cannot use a sql query. However the worst part was it just writing in the text input slowed down my m4 pro chip to less than 1 fps after 2 prompts.”

Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the productweight 3

3 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.3 (disputed) = 3.6 of 30 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cdp.md“Pipelines are built from Hog functions, which you can configure from a template, write yourself, or have PostHog AI write for you.”
  • [github] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog“Turn signals in your product data (errors, rage clicks, failed queries, and more) into researched reports and pull requests you review and merge.”
  • [github] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog“You can steer it all from Slack, web, desktop (PostHog Desktop), or your own editor via the MCP.”
  • [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663544“I really wish you guys would do something about the llm integration, I tried using it two days ago to create a cohort of users using a sql query, and I was surprised to see that it said that it could not create cohorts for me... a cohort cannot use a sql query. However the worst part was it just writing in the text input slowed down my m4 pro chip to less than 1 fps after 2 prompts.”

Operate the product with natural-language commandsweight 2

2 (weight) × 5 (quality) × 0.3 (disputed) = 3.0 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“"Show me the full stack trace for the most recent crash, then propose a fix." – Pulls the stack trace, error message, and metadata so the agent can suggest code changes.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“with just plain text questions your agents can ship a feature flag from a prompt, dig into a stack trace without leaving your editor, run a HogQL query through Claude”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“your agents can ship a feature flag from a prompt, dig into a stack trace without leaving your editor, run a HogQL query through Claude”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol.md“with just plain text questions your agents can ship a feature flag from a prompt, dig into a stack trace without leaving your editor”
  • [probe] https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol“official MCP server documented at https://posthog.com/docs/model-context-protocol”
  • [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663544“I really wish you guys would do something about the llm integration, I tried using it two days ago to create a cohort of users using a sql query, and I was surprised to see that it said that it could not create cohorts for me... a cohort cannot use a sql query. However the worst part was it just writing in the text input slowed down my m4 pro chip to less than 1 fps after 2 prompts.”

Built-in AI = 16.8 ÷ 90 × 100 = 18.7

Automation39.8/100×0.15 of the PA blend

Depth of automation primitives — rules, scheduling, bulk operations, webhooks.

Perform bulk operations across many items at onceweight 2

2 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 4.8 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/sql.md“You can use SQL (Structured Query Language) throughout PostHog to manage, query, and modify data.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/data-warehouse.md“Sync Stripe, Postgres, Salesforce, HubSpot, and dozens of other sources, then query them alongside your events, persons, and sessions in one SQL query”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cdp.md“It pulls data in from the tools you already use, lets you filter and reshape events as they're ingested, and sends the result wherever it needs to go”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cli.md“The PostHog CLI lets you use PostHog from your terminal, your coding agents, local scripts, and CI/CD pipelines.”
  • [community] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663544“I really wish you guys would do something about the llm integration, I tried using it two days ago to create a cohort of users using a sql query, and I was surprised to see that it said that it could not create cohorts for me... a cohort cannot use a sql query. However the worst part was it just writing in the text input slowed down my m4 pro chip to less than 1 fps after 2 prompts.”

Define rules that trigger actions automatically on eventsweight 3

3 (weight) × 7 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 21.0 of 30 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cdp.md“It pulls data in from the tools you already use, lets you filter and reshape events as they're ingested, and sends the result wherever it needs to go”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cdp.md“It pulls data in from the tools you already use, lets you filter and reshape events as they're ingested, and sends the result wherever it needs to go – in realtime or on a schedule.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cdp.md“Pipelines are built from Hog functions, which you can configure from a template, write yourself, or have PostHog AI write for you.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/cdp“Slack: Send events to Slack channels SaaS tools: Send events to SaaS tools like Braze, Customer.io, and more”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/cdp“Send alerts to Slack, PagerDuty, or monitoring tools”
  • [github] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog“Create workflows that automate actions or send messages to your users.”

Schedule recurring jobs or workflowsweight 2

2 (weight) × 5 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 6.0 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cdp.md“It pulls data in from the tools you already use, lets you filter and reshape events as they're ingested, and sends the result wherever it needs to go – in realtime or on a schedule.”
  • [github] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog“Create workflows that automate actions or send messages to your users.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://posthog.com/docs/cdp.md“Pipelines are built from Hog functions, which you can configure from a template, write yourself, or have PostHog AI write for you.”

Version, review, and roll back my automationsweight 1

1 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 10 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Automation = 31.8 ÷ 80 × 100 = 39.8