Amplitude vs OpenReplay
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 $199 per month (Cloud dedicated instance, billed hourly at $0.276)
Free tierWhat 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.
Self-hosting costs only infrastructure and is the main reason to pick OpenReplay. Managed cloud is an instance you rent rather than a per-session rate, though a usage-based serverless option also exists.
Free tier
Free plan with a monthly event allowance suitable for early-stage products.
Self-hosted community edition is free and unlimited.
Open source
ELv2
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Category standard
Amplitude · since 2012
Established
OpenReplay · since 2021
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.
- Full data sovereignty — recordings stay inside your infrastructure.
- Developer-focused feature set comparable to LogRocket.
- No volume-based pricing when self-hosted.
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.
- Self-hosting session replay is a non-trivial operational commitment, including storage.
- Smaller community and fewer integrations than the commercial tools.
- Analytics and funnel features are thinner.
Best for
Product teams that need rigorous behavioural analysis over time.
Privacy-constrained or high-volume teams that cannot use a hosted replay vendor.
All of these integrate with: Slack.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.