Mixpanel vs LogRocket
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
Free tier available
Free tierFrom $176 per month (Core, around 25k sessions)
Trial onlyWhat drives the bill
The metric that actually scales your invoice.
Growth now starts at $0 and scales with event volume up to 20M events a month, with the first million free; annual billing saves around $480 a year. Enterprise is quote-based. Event-volume pricing stays generous for early products but climbs with a chatty event schema.
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.
Free tier
Free forever, up to 1M events a month.
14-day trial with full features; there is no permanently free plan.
Open source
Self-hostable
No-code authoring
Languages
Platforms
Fits teams
Adoption
Category standard
Mixpanel · since 2009
Widely used
LogRocket · since 2016
Strengths
- Genuinely self-serve — product managers build their own reports without help.
- Large free tier that carries an early-stage product a long way.
- Fast query performance on large event volumes.
- 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.
Limitations
- Requires disciplined event instrumentation and naming.
- Weaker on user-level qualitative investigation than replay tools.
- Costs scale with event volume, which grows faster than user count.
- 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.
Best for
Product teams that want fast, self-serve behavioural reporting.
Engineering teams that want to debug production issues from a recording.
All of these integrate with: Segment, Slack.
Pricing last reviewed August 2026 and is indicative only — confirm on each vendor’s own page.