PostHog vs LogRocket

Free tier available

From $69 per month (indicative, Team plan)

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

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

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

Free plan with a monthly session allowance.

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.
• Recording network payloads requires careful configuration to avoid capturing secrets.
• Less suited to marketing and conversion analysis than Hotjar.

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

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