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LogRocket vs OpenReplay

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

From $199 per month (Cloud dedicated instance, billed hourly at $0.276)

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.

Self-hosting costs only infrastructure and is the main reason to pick OpenReplay. Managed cloud is an instance you rent rather than a per-session rate, though a usage-based serverless option also exists.

Free tier

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

Self-hosted community edition is free and unlimited.

Open source

ELv2

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptSwiftKotlin
JavaScriptTypeScript

Platforms

WebiOSAndroid
WebiOSAndroid

Fits teams

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

Adoption

Widely used

LogRocket · since 2016

Established

OpenReplay · since 2021

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.
  • Full data sovereignty — recordings stay inside your infrastructure.
  • Developer-focused feature set comparable to LogRocket.
  • No volume-based pricing when self-hosted.

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 session replay is a non-trivial operational commitment, including storage.
  • Smaller community and fewer integrations than the commercial tools.
  • Analytics and funnel features are thinner.

Best for

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

Privacy-constrained or high-volume teams that cannot use a hosted replay vendor.

All of these integrate with: Sentry, Jira, Slack, Datadog.

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