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FullStory 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

Quote on request

Quote only

From $176 per month (Core, around 25k sessions)

Trial only

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

Quote-based annual contracts priced by session volume. Among the more expensive tools in the category.

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 limited monthly sessions.

14-day trial with full features; there is no permanently free plan.

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptSwiftKotlinCodeless
JavaScriptTypeScriptSwiftKotlin

Platforms

WebiOSAndroid
WebiOSAndroid

Fits teams

Scale-up / mid-marketEnterprise
StartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise

Adoption

Widely used

FullStory · since 2014

Widely used

LogRocket · since 2016

Strengths

  • Retroactive analysis is a genuine capability difference, not a marketing angle.
  • Excellent search: find the eleven sessions where a specific error occurred in checkout.
  • Strong privacy controls with element-level exclusion rules.
  • 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

  • Expensive, with opaque quote-based pricing.
  • Capturing everything raises data-governance questions that need answering up front.
  • Meaningful learning curve to use the search language well.
  • 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 and support organisations that need to investigate specific user problems in depth.

Engineering teams that want to debug production issues from a recording.

All of these integrate with: Segment, Jira, Slack, Zendesk, Sentry.

Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.