OpenReplay vs Amplitude

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

Free tier available

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

Paid plans are quote-based on monthly tracked users and events; enterprise contracts are substantial.

Self-hosted community edition is free and unlimited.

Free plan with a monthly event allowance suitable for early-stage products.

Established

OpenReplay · since 2021

Category standard

Amplitude · since 2012

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

• The deepest retention and cohort analysis in mainstream product analytics.
• Good free tier for early-stage products.
• Strong data-governance tooling for event taxonomy.

• 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.

• Requires deliberate event instrumentation — nothing works without it.
• Enterprise pricing rises steeply with tracked users.
• Replay and experimentation are newer and less mature than the analytics core.

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

Product teams that need rigorous behavioural analysis over time.