PostHog vs LogRocket

Free tier available

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

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

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.

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

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

Widely used

PostHog · since 2020

Widely used

LogRocket · since 2016

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

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