OpenReplay vs Statcounter comparison

Compare pricing, deployment, product fit, integrations, and capabilities side by side.

Which platform fits your needs?

Choose OpenReplay if

Engineering and product teams that need self-hosted replay, debugging context, and product analytics

Capabilities only listed for OpenReplay

Privacy-first Self-hosted Open source GDPR compliant CCPA compliant App analytics Funnels Error tracking Audience insights User segments Data ownership AI insights Enterprise

Important considerations: Cloud Free includes 2 users, 1 project, and 7-day retention. Paid Serverless includes unlimited users and projects with 30-day retention. Self-hosting requires your own infrastructure; Dedicated costs depend on the instance, region, and running time.

Choose Statcounter if

Small businesses and bloggers needing simple web analytics

Capabilities only listed for Statcounter

Real-time data Goals

Important considerations: Free history is limited to 14 days; session replay is a separate allowance and heatmaps require Premium Plus.

Shared capabilities

Free plan Event tracking Behavior analytics Session recordings Heatmaps Data export Integrations

Attribute	OpenReplay	Statcounter
Overview	An open-source session replay and product analytics platform that can run on your infrastructure, combining replays with errors, network activity, performance data, funnels, journeys, heatmaps, web analytics, and co-browsing.	A hosted web analytics service centered on real-time visitor feeds, traffic trends, landing-page and paid-traffic analysis, conversions, session replay, and higher-tier heatmaps.
Pricing	Open-source self-hosting is free. Cloud Free: 1,000 sessions/month; Serverless: $5.95 per 1,000 sessions/month; Dedicated: from $199/month, billed hourly; Enterprise: custom.	Basic is free for 5,000 sessions/month with 14-day retention; Premium starts at €9/month and Premium Plus at €19/month for 20,000 sessions
Deployment	Self-hosted and hosted options	Vendor-hosted cloud
Best for	Engineering and product teams that need self-hosted replay, debugging context, and product analytics	Small businesses and bloggers needing simple web analytics
Operator	Asayer SAS Independent private company	StatCounter Independent private company
Company base	Distributed organization	Dublin, Ireland · European Union
Organization scale	No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed.	No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed.
Recent direction	product analytics Recent official evidence shows a focus on product analytics.	operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability.
Key features	Self-hosted session replay Product and web analytics Error, network, and performance context Funnels and journeys Heatmaps Co-browsing Web and mobile capture Data export MCP server	Real-time visitor feeds Traffic trend charts Visitor paths Landing-page analysis Conversion tracking Paid-traffic analysis Session replay Heatmaps on Premium Plus
Important considerations	Cloud Free includes 2 users, 1 project, and 7-day retention. Paid Serverless includes unlimited users and projects with 30-day retention. Self-hosting requires your own infrastructure; Dedicated costs depend on the instance, region, and running time.	Free history is limited to 14 days; session replay is a separate allowance and heatmaps require Premium Plus.
Integrations	GitHub, Jira, Slack, Sentry, Datadog	WordPress, Shopify
Fact check	We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-04.	We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08.

Capability matrix

This matrix shows capabilities recorded in our catalog. Not listed means we have not confirmed the capability here. Check the linked vendor sources for plan, deployment, and usage limits.

Attribute	OpenReplay	Statcounter
AI insights	Listed	Not listed
App analytics	Listed	Not listed
Audience insights	Listed	Not listed
Behavior analytics	Listed	Listed
CCPA compliant	Listed	Not listed
Data export	Listed	Listed
Data ownership	Listed	Not listed
Enterprise	Listed	Not listed
Error tracking	Listed	Not listed
Event tracking	Listed	Listed
Free plan	Listed	Listed
Funnels	Listed	Not listed
GDPR compliant	Listed	Not listed
Goals	Not listed	Listed
Heatmaps	Listed	Listed
Integrations	Listed	Listed
Open source	Listed	Not listed
Privacy-first	Listed	Not listed
Real-time data	Not listed	Listed
Self-hosted	Listed	Not listed
Session recordings	Listed	Listed
User segments	Listed	Not listed

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