Matomo vs LogRocket

From $29 per month (Cloud, 50k hits; annual billing gives 2 months free)

From $176 per month (Core, around 25k sessions)

Self-hosting is free but plugins such as heatmaps and A/B testing are paid add-ons. Cloud scales with hits.

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-hosted Community edition is free forever with unlimited users and hits; premium plugins are paid.

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

Widely used

InnoCraft · since 2007

Widely used

LogRocket · since 2016

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Public sector, healthcare and European organisations with strict data-residency requirements.

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