Amplitude vs LogRocket
Feature checklists rarely decide anything. What decides it is the pricing metric, who has to write the tests, and which limitation you can live with.
Entry price
Free tier available
Free tierFrom $176 per month (Core, around 25k sessions)
Trial onlyWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Paid plans are quote-based on monthly tracked users and events; enterprise contracts are substantial.
Priced on the sessions you capture — analytics, logs and errors are unlimited. Plans are Core, Pro and Enterprise, and Pro is included free above 100k sessions a month.
Free tier
Free plan with a monthly event allowance suitable for early-stage products.
14-day trial with full features; there is no permanently free plan.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Category standard
Amplitude · since 2012
Widely used
LogRocket · since 2016
Strengths
- The deepest retention and cohort analysis in mainstream product analytics.
- Good free tier for early-stage products.
- Strong data-governance tooling for event taxonomy.
- The technical context makes a support ticket directly actionable by a developer.
- Error tracking and replay in one tool can replace a separate error monitor.
- State-management integration is unmatched for React and Redux applications.
Limitations
- Requires deliberate event instrumentation — nothing works without it.
- Enterprise pricing rises steeply with tracked users.
- Replay and experimentation are newer and less mature than the analytics core.
- Session pricing escalates on high-traffic consumer sites, and there is no free tier to grow into — only a 14-day trial.
- Recording network payloads requires careful configuration to avoid capturing secrets.
- Less suited to marketing and conversion analysis than a dedicated experience-analytics tool.
Best for
Product teams that need rigorous behavioural analysis over time.
Engineering teams that want to debug production issues from a recording.
All of these integrate with: Segment, Slack.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.