LogRocket vs Matomo
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 onlyFrom $29 per month (Cloud, 50k hits; annual billing gives 2 months free)
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.
Self-hosting is free but plugins such as heatmaps and A/B testing are paid add-ons. Cloud scales with hits.
Free tier
14-day trial with full features; there is no permanently free plan.
Self-hosted Community edition is free forever with unlimited users and hits; premium plugins are paid.
Open source
GPL-3.0
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Widely used
LogRocket · since 2016
Widely used
InnoCraft · since 2007
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.
- Complete data ownership with no third-party processing — the strongest GDPR position available.
- No sampling, unlike free tiers of hosted analytics.
- Can be configured to run without cookies or consent banners.
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.
- Self-hosting requires PHP and MySQL operations, including performance tuning at scale.
- The interface is less refined than modern product analytics tools.
- Advanced features are paid plugins even on the free self-hosted edition.
Best for
Engineering teams that want to debug production issues from a recording.
Public sector, healthcare and European organisations with strict data-residency requirements.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.