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LogRocket vs Smartlook

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.

End of Sale is in effect, so there is no current list price for new buyers: Cisco stopped new subscriptions on 31 May 2026, existing customers could renew only until 31 August 2026, paid subscriptions end 31 August 2027 and the platform is decommissioned with data deleted on 30 September 2027. Export anything you need before then.

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
JavaScriptSwiftKotlinDart

Platforms

WebiOSAndroid
WebiOSAndroid

Fits teams

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

Adoption

Widely used

LogRocket · since 2016

Established

Cisco · since 2016

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.
  • Genuinely good native mobile replay, including Flutter and React Native.
  • Always-on event tracking without pre-instrumentation.
  • Reasonable pricing for mid-sized traffic.

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.
  • End of life announced by Cisco: sales closed 31 May 2026, dashboards and historical data go on 31 August 2027.
  • Web analytics features are behind Contentsquare and FullStory.
  • Interface is less refined than the market leaders.

Best for

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

Nobody starting today. Existing users should be planning a migration.

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

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