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Heap 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 tier

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

Trial only

What drives the bill

The metric that actually scales your invoice.

Paid tiers are quote-based by session volume.

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 session limit.

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

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptSwiftKotlin
JavaScriptTypeScriptSwiftKotlin

Platforms

WebiOSAndroid
WebiOSAndroid

Fits teams

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

Adoption

Widely used

Contentsquare · since 2013

Widely used

LogRocket · since 2016

Strengths

  • Retroactive event definition eliminates 'we didn't track that' entirely.
  • Very fast time to first insight — no instrumentation project required.
  • Warehouse sync for teams that want the raw data.
  • 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

  • Autocaptured data needs governance or the event list becomes unusable noise.
  • Session-based pricing on high-traffic products.
  • Acquisition means overlap with Contentsquare's own products.
  • 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 want analytics without an instrumentation backlog.

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.