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LogRocket vs Heap

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 only

Free tier available

Free tier

What 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.

Paid tiers are quote-based by session volume.

Free tier

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

Free plan with a monthly session limit.

Open source

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptSwiftKotlin
JavaScriptSwiftKotlin

Platforms

WebiOSAndroid
WebiOSAndroid

Fits teams

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

Adoption

Widely used

LogRocket · since 2016

Widely used

Contentsquare · since 2013

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.
  • 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.

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.
  • 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.

Best for

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

Product teams that want analytics without an instrumentation backlog.

All of these integrate with: Slack, Segment.

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