diff --git a/posthog-node/benchmarks/rusha-vs-native.mjs b/posthog-node/benchmarks/rusha-vs-native.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..af60755e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/posthog-node/benchmarks/rusha-vs-native.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+// @ts-check
+
+import { bench, run, summary } from "mitata";
+import { createHash } from "node:crypto"
+import pkg from 'rusha';
+const { createHash: createHashRusha } = pkg;
+
+// eslint-disable-next-line
+const LONG_SCALE = 0xfffffffffffffff
+
+// from https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-js-lite/blob/2baa794708d78d5d10940817c3768e47abe2da99/posthog-node/src/feature-flags.ts#L460-L465
+function _hashRusha(key, distinctId, salt = '') {
+    // rusha is a fast sha1 implementation in pure javascript
+    const sha1Hash = createHashRusha()
+    sha1Hash.update(`${key}.${distinctId}${salt}`)
+    return parseInt(sha1Hash.digest('hex').slice(0, 15), 16) / LONG_SCALE
+}
+
+function _hash(key, distinctId, salt = '') {
+    const sha1Hash = createHash("sha1")
+    sha1Hash.update(`${key}.${distinctId}${salt}`)
+    return parseInt(sha1Hash.digest('hex').slice(0, 15), 16) / LONG_SCALE
+}
+
+summary(() => {
+	bench("_hash with rusha", () => {
+		_hashRusha("test", "user_id")
+	});
+
+	bench("_hash with native", () => {
+		_hash("test", "user_id")
+	});
+});
+
+await run();
+
+
+// !NODE
+// node benchmarks/rusha-vs-native.mjs
+// clk: ~3.99 GHz
+// cpu: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core Processor
+// runtime: node 22.11.0 (x64-linux)
+
+// benchmark                   avg (min … max) p75   p99    (min … top 1%)
+// ------------------------------------------- -------------------------------
+// _hash with rusha              12.10 µs/iter   7.25 µs █
+//                         (4.66 µs … 1.27 ms) 116.62 µs █▄▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁
+// _hash with native            547.04 ns/iter 435.45 ns █
+//                       (370.08 ns … 3.61 µs)   3.58 µs █▃▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁
+
+// summary
+//   _hash with native
+//    22.12x faster than _hash with rusha
+
+// !BUN
+// bun benchmarks/rusha-vs-native.mjs 
+// clk: ~5.04 GHz
+// cpu: AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core Processor
+// runtime: bun 1.1.37 (x64-linux)
+
+// benchmark                   avg (min … max) p75   p99    (min … top 1%)
+// ------------------------------------------- -------------------------------
+// _hash with rusha              10.00 µs/iter   4.96 µs  █
+//                         (2.60 µs … 2.78 ms)  45.85 µs ▂█▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁
+// _hash with native            471.82 ns/iter 420.00 ns █
+//                     (370.00 ns … 949.79 µs)   1.99 µs █▆▂▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁▁
+
+// summary
+//   _hash with native
+//    21.19x faster than _hash with rusha
diff --git a/posthog-node/package.json b/posthog-node/package.json
index 43f2c1ed..195e97d1 100644
--- a/posthog-node/package.json
+++ b/posthog-node/package.json
@@ -23,12 +23,12 @@
   "module": "lib/index.esm.js",
   "types": "lib/index.d.ts",
   "dependencies": {
-    "axios": "^1.7.4",
-    "rusha": "^0.8.14"
+    "axios": "^1.7.4"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@types/node": "^18.0.0",
-    "commander": "^9.3.0"
+    "commander": "^9.3.0",
+    "mitata": "^1.0.21"
   },
   "keywords": [
     "posthog",
diff --git a/posthog-node/src/feature-flags.ts b/posthog-node/src/feature-flags.ts
index 09b6eb5b..a31cf996 100644
--- a/posthog-node/src/feature-flags.ts
+++ b/posthog-node/src/feature-flags.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { createHash } from 'rusha'
+import { createHash } from 'node:crypto'
 import { FeatureFlagCondition, FlagProperty, PostHogFeatureFlag, PropertyGroup } from './types'
 import { JsonType, PostHogFetchOptions, PostHogFetchResponse } from 'posthog-core/src'
 import { safeSetTimeout } from 'posthog-core/src/utils'
@@ -458,8 +458,7 @@ class FeatureFlagsPoller {
 // # uniformly distributed between 0 and 1, so if we want to show this feature to 20% of traffic
 // # we can do _hash(key, distinct_id) < 0.2
 function _hash(key: string, distinctId: string, salt: string = ''): number {
-  // rusha is a fast sha1 implementation in pure javascript
-  const sha1Hash = createHash()
+  const sha1Hash = createHash("sha1")
   sha1Hash.update(`${key}.${distinctId}${salt}`)
   return parseInt(sha1Hash.digest('hex').slice(0, 15), 16) / LONG_SCALE
 }
diff --git a/posthog-node/src/types/rusha.d.ts b/posthog-node/src/types/rusha.d.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index d29f8ae8..00000000
--- a/posthog-node/src/types/rusha.d.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-// Adjusted from type definitions for rusha 0.8
-// Project: https://github.com/srijs/rusha#readme
-// Definitions by: Jacopo Scazzosi <https://github.com/jacoscaz>
-// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
-// Minimum TypeScript Version: 4.0
-
-/// <reference types="node" />
-
-interface Hash {
-  update(value: string | number[] | ArrayBuffer | Buffer): Hash
-  digest(encoding?: undefined): ArrayBuffer
-  digest(encoding: 'hex'): string
-}
-
-interface Rusha {
-  createHash(): Hash
-}
-
-declare const Rusha: Rusha
-
-declare module 'rusha' {
-  export = Rusha
-}
diff --git a/posthog-node/tsconfig.json b/posthog-node/tsconfig.json
index d0b3de1d..e184f38f 100644
--- a/posthog-node/tsconfig.json
+++ b/posthog-node/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "extends": "../tsconfig.json",
   "compilerOptions": {
-    "types": ["node", "rusha"],
-    "typeRoots": ["./node_modules/@types", "../node_modules/@types", "./src/types"]
+    "types": ["node"],
+    "typeRoots": ["./node_modules/@types", "../node_modules/@types"]
   }
 }
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 5107a218..ee168136 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -7942,6 +7942,11 @@ minizlib@^2.1.1:
     minipass "^3.0.0"
     yallist "^4.0.0"
 
+mitata@^1.0.21:
+  version "1.0.21"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/mitata/-/mitata-1.0.21.tgz#525828c6306a5243da65b4d0574956f2572ca432"
+  integrity sha512-5HnbQJpz0Ub/7x7lxaxPhd3U3zXr7rD+24FIgEp/hjVE5wz6ye/pQRBrgH3MUK8KLy/FfPy/yfZbpi0sbmsNFg==
+
 mixin-deep@^1.2.0:
   version "1.3.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/mixin-deep/-/mixin-deep-1.3.2.tgz#1120b43dc359a785dce65b55b82e257ccf479566"
@@ -9223,11 +9228,6 @@ run-parallel@^1.1.9:
   dependencies:
     queue-microtask "^1.2.2"
 
-rusha@^0.8.14:
-  version "0.8.14"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/rusha/-/rusha-0.8.14.tgz#a977d0de9428406138b7bb90d3de5dcd024e2f68"
-  integrity sha512-cLgakCUf6PedEu15t8kbsjnwIFFR2D4RfL+W3iWFJ4iac7z4B0ZI8fxy4R3J956kAI68HclCFGL8MPoUVC3qVA==
-
 safe-array-concat@^1.1.2:
   version "1.1.2"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/safe-array-concat/-/safe-array-concat-1.1.2.tgz#81d77ee0c4e8b863635227c721278dd524c20edb"