OpenReplay vs LogRocket

From $4.5 per 1k sessions (indicative, cloud)

From $69 per month (indicative, Team plan)

Self-hosting costs only infrastructure. Cloud pricing is usage-based and cheaper than the closed-source leaders.

Priced by monthly sessions. Cheaper than FullStory for equivalent volume.

Self-hosted community edition is free and unlimited.

Free plan with a monthly session allowance.

Established

OpenReplay · since 2021

Widely used

LogRocket · since 2016

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

• 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 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.

• Session pricing escalates on high-traffic consumer sites.
• Recording network payloads requires careful configuration to avoid capturing secrets.
• Less suited to marketing and conversion analysis than Hotjar.

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

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