Replayowl vs LogRocket
LogRocket pairs session replay with error tracking, performance monitoring, product analytics and AI summaries. Replayowl only does replay and runs on your own infrastructure. If you need the full platform, LogRocket covers far more.
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| LogRocket | Replayowl | |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Replay, error tracking, logs, frontend performance, funnels, path analysis, heatmaps, surveys, AI (Pro and up) | Web session replay with console errors and search |
| Free option | 14-day trial | Free to self-host, no limits |
| Pricing | From $176 per month, billed annually, priced by sessions captured | No license fee; you pay your own hosting |
| Plans | Core, Pro, Enterprise | One open source version |
| Self-hosting | Enterprise plan only | Yes, AGPL-3.0 |
| Retention | Depends on plan; up to 12 months for watched sessions on Pro and Enterprise | Until you delete it |
| Where data lives | LogRocket’s cloud, unless you self-host on Enterprise | Your bucket and your database |
Sources: LogRocket pricing, extended session retention.
How the costs compare
LogRocket’s price grows with the number of sessions you capture, plus seats, retention length and add-ons. The cheapest published figure is $176 per month on an annual plan. Recording only some sessions is an option, starting around $860 per month billed annually.
Replayowl has no session price. On Cloudflare you pay for Worker requests, D1 or Postgres, and object storage. The recorder uploads one gzipped batch every 4 seconds, so request count is the number to watch. The Workers paid plan is recommended. See pricing.
Pick LogRocket if
You want one product for replay, error tracking, performance and product analytics, with AI that summarises sessions for you, and you are happy for that data to sit in LogRocket’s cloud. Or you are on an Enterprise budget and need their self-hosted edition with compliance programmes behind it.
Pick Replayowl if
You mainly use replay to see what a visitor did before something broke, and you want recordings on infrastructure you control without an enterprise contract. Replayowl records console errors and uncaught exceptions with stack traces next to the session, which covers the part of error tracking most teams use replay for. It does not replace a dedicated error tracker for alerting or grouping.
Moving over
Replayowl does not import LogRocket recordings. Run both for a while: add the Replayowl script tag next to LogRocket’s, pass the same user ID to both with ReplayOwl.identify(), and compare replays of the same visits. When you are happy, remove LogRocket and let its retention run out.
Try replay quality first in the live demo, and read what Replayowl does not do.