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LogRocket vs PostHog

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.

Usage-based pricing per product with a substantial free tier; most small teams stay free indefinitely.

Free tier

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

Large monthly free allowance across every product, plus free self-hosting.

Open source

MIT (core) / proprietary enterprise modules

Self-hostable

No-code authoring

Languages

JavaScriptTypeScriptSwiftKotlin
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaGoRubyPHPSwiftKotlin

Platforms

WebiOSAndroid
WebAPIiOSAndroid

Fits teams

StartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise
Solo / side projectStartupScale-up / mid-marketEnterprise

Adoption

Widely used

LogRocket · since 2016

Widely used

PostHog · since 2020

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.
  • Replaces four or five separate subscriptions with one bill and one SDK.
  • Free tier is large enough for real production use at startup scale.
  • Open source with a credible self-hosting path.

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.
  • Individual modules are less deep than category specialists.
  • Self-hosting at scale is a serious infrastructure undertaking.
  • The product surface changes fast, which means occasional churn.

Best for

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

Startups and scale-ups consolidating analytics, replay and flags into one platform.

All of these integrate with: Sentry, Slack, Segment.

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