LogRocket vs Contentsquare
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
From $176 per month (Core, around 25k sessions)
Trial onlyFree tier available
Free tierWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
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.
Since absorbing Hotjar, Contentsquare sells three separately billed product lines — Experience Analytics, Voice of Customer and Product Analytics — with a free entry tier and quote-based paid plans. Enterprise annual contracts are priced by traffic and are typically six figures at scale.
Free tier
14-day trial with full features; there is no permanently free plan.
There is now a free Contentsquare plan — it replaced Hotjar's as the self-serve entry point and is considerably more generous than Hotjar's old 35-sessions-a-day limit.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Widely used
LogRocket · since 2016
Widely used
Contentsquare · since 2012
Strengths
- 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.
- Revenue attribution turns UX findings into business cases executives act on.
- Zone-based analysis is more actionable than raw heatmaps on complex pages.
- Handles very high traffic volumes without sampling.
Limitations
- 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.
- The full platform is expensive, and paid tiers are quote-based rather than published.
- Substantial implementation and training effort before value appears.
- Splitting the old Hotjar bundle into three separately billed lines means you may need more than one to replace what Hotjar did.
Best for
Engineering teams that want to debug production issues from a recording.
Large e-commerce, travel and financial organisations with dedicated optimisation teams — and now, via the free tier, the small teams Hotjar used to serve.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.