Contentsquare alternatives: 11 heatmap and session replay tools compared
Contentsquare is the Paris platform that absorbed Hotjar, which no longer takes new accounts. People look elsewhere when the free tier records only a slice of their traffic, when the paid step leads to a sales conversation, or when they wanted a simple heatmap tool and find an experience analytics platform instead. Alternatives range from small session-priced tools to free and self-hosted replay.
Short answer: The first three alternatives to Contentsquare in our heatmap and session replay tool ranking are Mouseflow, OpenReplay and Plerdy. Smaller vendors fill the top three places where the category offers them, and the household names start at place 4. Choose Mouseflow if you want a Danish vendor that sells by sessions with unlimited seats. Each of the 11 alternatives sits in Best Heatmap and Session Replay Tools in 2026 and is described against Contentsquare.
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Pricing: Free tier to 200,000 sessions; Growth published by session band; Pro and Enterprise quoted
Established in: France
Built for: Growing sites wanting a large free session quota with a quoted route above it
Not for: Buyers who want published prices for every tier
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Why buyers look past Contentsquare
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The free tier replays only a fraction of sessions
Contentsquare's free plan counts up to 200,000 sessions a month, but its pricing page says replay captures 5% of sessions, capped at 10,000. Growth raises that to 15%, and only Pro and Enterprise can capture up to 100%. A team that wants to watch most visits therefore reaches the quoted tiers quickly.
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Short windows on the free plan
Free gives one month of data access and one month of replay access, with one project. Growth lists 13 months of data but replay access of two months. Anyone comparing a campaign with the same weeks last year can look at the numbers, not at the recordings.
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A platform where some buyers wanted a heatmap tool
The product pages list journeys, attribution, merchandising, experimentation, conversation intelligence and product analytics beside replay and heatmaps. Pro, Enterprise and the Product Analytics tiers show custom pricing. Small teams that want pages and recordings only may pay attention to far more than they use.
unlimited recordings at no cost outweigh a vendor to call
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What each one does differently
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Mouseflow
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Mouseflow ApS of Copenhagen prices by monthly sessions and gives unlimited users on every plan. Its free tier records 500 sessions for one website, with a month of retention, and retention reaches a year on the third paid tier. That suits a landing page test; a busy shop will need a paid step.
Switch from Contentsquare if you want a Danish vendor that sells by sessions with unlimited seats.
Asayer SAS builds OpenReplay under French law and ships most of it under AGPL v3. You can run replay, product analytics and co-browsing on your own servers, so recordings stay inside your network. SAML, SCIM and audit logs belong to the Enterprise edition, and upgrades become your job.
Switch from Contentsquare if recordings must stay on servers you control.
Plerdy pairs heatmaps and session videos with pop-ups, e-commerce tracking and an SEO checker, under Ukrainian law. The free plan allows 100 heatmaps a day and 500 videos with a month of storage, and paid tiers stretch storage to a year. Teams after replay alone carry unused modules.
Switch from Contentsquare if you want conversion and SEO tools in the same subscription.
Inspectlet offers 2,500 recorded sessions a month across three websites with no time limit on the free plan. Paid plans run monthly or yearly without long contracts. Recording stops when the monthly limit is reached, and storage on small plans is short, from one month upward.
Switch from Contentsquare if you need a free plan that covers three sites and no contract.
Crazy Egg publishes four annual tiers sized by tracked pageviews, heatmap reports and recordings. Unlimited domains and team members come on every plan, and hitting a cap pauses collection until the first of the month instead of billing extra. The entry tier holds five heatmap reports and fifty recordings.
Switch from Contentsquare if a hard cap that cannot produce a surprise bill is the priority.
Lucky Orange, LLC of Overland Park gives all features to every plan, so only monthly sessions set the price: 3,500, then 10,000, then 50,000 and up. Recording storage starts at sixty days, extra websites cost a small fee, and the trial runs seven days.
Switch from Contentsquare if you want every feature unlocked and to pay only by session volume.
PostHog meters session replay as one product among analytics, feature flags and surveys, each with its own allowance. The monthly free allowance includes 5,000 recordings, one project and a year of data, and billing limits can be set per product. The capture code is MIT licensed.
Switch from Contentsquare if you want replays tied to product events in one workspace.
LogRocket, Inc. of Boston targets engineering and product teams. Core covers sessions below 100,000 a month, with replay, heatmaps, funnels and unlimited error events. Price depends on seats, retention and add-ons, and self-hosting sits under Enterprise.
Switch from Contentsquare if developers need replay linked to frontend errors.
Fullstory, Inc. is a Delaware corporation with Atlanta offices. Its free plan allows 30,000 sessions a month, ten users and twelve months of retention. Business, Advanced and Enterprise go through a pricing request, with mobile capture and surveys as separate add-ons.
Switch from Contentsquare if you want a longer free retention window before talking to sales.
Smartlook says it has joined Cisco and continues inside Splunk Observability Cloud. Its pricing page shows no plan prices and sends buyers to an account manager. A free plan is named until 30 September 2027, with its limits not stated, and no registered country appears.
Switch from Contentsquare if you already buy observability tooling from Cisco or Splunk.
Microsoft Clarity is free with no traffic limit and no sampling across any number of sites. Recordings last thirty days, with favourites kept up to nine months, and data sits in Azure. There is no paid tier to buy support from, and it is not meant for sites aimed at under-18s.
Switch from Contentsquare if unlimited recordings at no cost outweigh a vendor to call.
OpenReplay: Most of the code is AGPL v3, so replay and co-browsing run on servers you control, with SAML and audit logs in the Enterprise edition.
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You want a Danish vendor with unlimited seats
Mouseflow: Pricing follows monthly sessions, every plan has unlimited users, and the free tier records 500 sessions.
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You want every visit recorded without a bill
Microsoft Clarity: Microsoft states no traffic limits and no sampling, with thirty-day recordings and Azure hosting.
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You want replay joined to product events
PostHog: The free allowance holds 5,000 recordings alongside analytics, with billing limits settable per product.
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You need a hard cap and no overage
Crazy Egg: Reaching a monthly limit pauses collection until the first of the next month, and domains and team members are unlimited.
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When Contentsquare is still the right choice
Contentsquare stays the right choice when you want replay, heatmaps, funnels, error and performance monitoring and surveys on one free plan, and a larger programme later. Existing Hotjar users log in with the same credentials, so the product continues for them. If you only need to see why one page underperforms, check whether the Growth tier at $49 a month with 3 projects covers you before leaving.
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What moving off Contentsquare involves
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Hotjar accounts and what carries over
Contentsquare's Hotjar page says the platforms have merged and existing users share a login. It describes no migration steps or timeline, so ask support what happens to your recordings and surveys before you plan an exit.
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Recordings are not portable
Heatmaps and replays live in the vendor's account, and the pages we read describe no export of past recordings. Plan to keep the old tool running in parallel for a while, and remove its snippet from every template once the new one reports.
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Questions about replacing Contentsquare
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How many sessions does the Contentsquare free plan include?
The pricing page lists up to 200,000 sessions a month, one project, one month of data access, and replay of 5% of sessions up to 10,000. Counts reset monthly.
What does Growth cost?
Experience Analytics Growth shows $49 a month billed monthly or $39 a month billed yearly for the lowest band, with bands from 7,000 to 240,000 sessions and 3 projects. Pro and Enterprise are custom.
Can I still sign up for Hotjar?
No. Contentsquare's Hotjar page states that a new Hotjar account can no longer be created and sends new users to the Contentsquare free plan.
Which alternatives cost nothing?
Microsoft Clarity has no traffic cap, OpenReplay self-hosted carries no licence cost, Inspectlet gives 2,500 sessions a month, PostHog 5,000 recordings and Fullstory 30,000 sessions.
Is there a European alternative to Contentsquare?
Mouseflow is Danish and OpenReplay French. Contentsquare itself is French, so a European option here is about size and hosting choices, not about leaving the continent.
Does the trial need a card?
Contentsquare says every new account starts a 15-day trial of Growth with no payment details, and Growth has a 30-day money-back guarantee.
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Sources
Checked 6 November 2026
Contentsquare pricing: Free 200,000 sessions, 5% replay capture, Growth $49 monthly or $39 yearly, 3 projects, 13 months data, 15-day trial, Pro and Enterprise custom.
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