OpenReplay vs Mouseflow

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

From €39 per month (indicative, Starter)

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

Priced by monthly recordings; EU-based with GDPR-oriented data handling.

Self-hosted community edition is free and unlimited.

Free plan with a small monthly recording allowance.

Established

OpenReplay · since 2021

Established

Mouseflow · since 2009

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

• Friction scoring surfaces the sessions worth watching instead of leaving you to browse.
• Form analytics pinpoint the exact field causing abandonment.
• EU company with straightforward GDPR positioning.

• 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.

• Web only.
• Fewer product-analytics capabilities than Heap or Amplitude.
• Recording limits on lower tiers bite on moderate traffic.

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

Teams optimising forms, checkouts and lead-generation funnels.