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Temps vs FullStory

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Monthly cost at a glance

Temps
FullStory
Free tier
$0 self-hosted, unmetered
30,000 sessions/mo, 12mo retention, 10 users
Paid
$0
Business / Advanced / Enterprise
Infrastructure
Free on your own VPS
$0
$curl -fsSL https://temps.sh/deploy.sh | bash

The short answer

FullStory
FullStory is an experience analytics product built for product and UX teams as much as engineers. Its free tier covers 30,000 sessions a month, and beyond that pricing is quote-only.
Temps
Temps records rrweb sessions on your own infrastructure with no session meter and no sales conversation, alongside error tracking and analytics from the same deployment.
What FullStory has that Temps doesn't
Funnels, heatmaps and frustration signals, and a UI aimed at non-engineers. Temps' replay tooling is engineer-oriented and narrower.

Scored, dimension by dimension

  • Experience analytics depth

    FullStory

    Temps

    Replay plus errors and analytics

    FullStory

    Funnels, heatmaps, frustration signals

  • Pricing transparency

    Temps

    Temps

    $0 — published, self-hosted

    FullStory

    Free to 30k sessions, then quote-only

  • Where recordings are stored

    Temps

    Temps

    Your own server

    FullStory

    FullStory's cloud

  • Non-engineering users

    FullStory

    Temps

    Engineer-oriented UI

    FullStory

    Built for product and UX teams

  • Session volume limits

    Temps

    Temps

    Bounded by disk, not by plan

    FullStory

    Metered by session

Why teams switch from FullStory

FullStory is the deeper session replay and experience-analytics product. The difference is what happens past its free tier: paid plans are quote-only, so you cannot budget them from a website. Temps' replay is self-hosted, unmetered, and arrives with the platform you already deploy to.

Pricing you can read
FullStory publishes a free tier but not the price of Business, Advanced or Enterprise — those are quote-only. Self-hosted Temps has no session tier to negotiate and no renewal conversation.
No session cap
FullstoryFree covers 30,000 sessions a month with 12 months of retention, which is generous. Past it you are in a sales process. Self-hosted Temps replay is limited by your disk, not by a plan.
Recordings stay on your infrastructure
Session replay captures what users typed and saw, which is the most sensitive telemetry most products collect. Self-hosting keeps it inside your own boundary.
Replay beside deploys and errors
FullStory does capture console errors and uncaught exceptions with stack traces, so this is not a gap in their product. The difference is where the error lives: Temps ships the app, records the session and receives the error through a Sentry-compatible DSN, so a replay sits next to the deployment and the release that caused it without integrating three vendors.

Feature comparison

What each platform includes out of the box, and what needs a separate subscription.

  • Session replay

    Temps

    Yes
    rrweb-based, unmetered self-hosted

    FullStory

    Yes
    Best-in-class

  • Privacy masking

    Temps

    Yes

    FullStory

    Yes

  • Funnels and conversion analysis

    Temps

    No

    FullStory

    Yes
    Core strength

  • Heatmaps and click maps

    Temps

    No

    FullStory

    Yes

  • Frustration signals (rage clicks, dead clicks)

    Temps

    No

    FullStory

    Yes
    A genuine differentiator

  • Web analytics

    Temps

    Yes
    Privacy-first, built in

    FullStory

    Yes

  • Error tracking

    Temps

    Yes
    Sentry-compatible DSN, grouping and alerting

    FullStory

    Yes
    Console errors and uncaught exceptions with stack traces, inside replay

  • Uptime monitoring

    Temps

    Yes
    60s checks

    FullStory

    No

  • Deployments

    Temps

    Yes
    Git-push PaaS

    FullStory

    No
    Not a deployment platform

  • Published paid pricing

    Temps

    Yes
    Free, self-hosted

    FullStory

    No
    Quote-only above the free tier

  • Free tier

    Temps

    Yes
    Unlimited self-hosted

    FullStory

    Yes
    30,000 sessions/mo, 10 users

  • Data stays on your infrastructure

    Temps

    Yes
    When self-hosted

    FullStory

    No

  • Open source

    Temps

    Yes
    MIT / Apache 2.0

    FullStory

    No

What it actually costs

FullStory's free tier is real and generous: 30,000 sessions a month with a year of retention covers a lot of products outright. The honest comparison is not price against price, because FullStory does not publish one above that tier — it is a known, self-hosted cost against a number you have to ask for.

ScenarioTempsFullStory
Free tier$0 self-hosted, unmetered30,000 sessions/mo, 12mo retention, 10 users
Paid$0 (included)Business / Advanced / Enterprise — quote only
InfrastructureFree on your own VPS$0 — hosted for you

Which one should you choose?

Choose Temps if you…

  • You want replay pricing you can read on a page rather than request
  • You expect to exceed 30,000 sessions a month
  • Recordings must stay inside your own infrastructure
  • You want replay, analytics, error tracking and deploys in one tool
  • You want retention limited by your disk rather than by a plan

What FullStory does better than Temps

  • You need funnels, heatmaps and frustration signals — FullStory is far deeper
  • You are inside the 30,000-session free tier, where it costs nothing
  • Product and UX teams, not just engineers, will use it daily
  • You want a hosted product with support and no server to run
  • Experience analytics is the job, not a feature beside deployments

Migrating from FullStory

Easy difficulty

Replace the FullStory snippet with @temps-sdk/react-analytics; both capture the DOM via a browser SDK, so instrumentation effort is comparable. Recordings do not transfer, so run both until you have the history you need. Audit what your team actually opens first: if anyone relies on heatmaps or frustration signals, there is no Temps equivalent and switching will cost them.

Frequently asked questions

Is FullStory free?

FullstoryFree is a permanent free plan with 30,000 sessions per month, 12 months of data retention and up to 10 users, with no credit card required. Paid plans are quote-only.

How much does FullStory cost?

FullStory does not publish prices for its Business, Advanced or Enterprise plans; they require contacting sales. Only the free tier's limits are public.

Does Temps replace FullStory?

For session replay, broadly yes, and without a session cap when self-hosted. For funnels, heatmaps and frustration signals, no — those are FullStory's core product and Temps has no equivalent. FullStory also captures console errors and uncaught exceptions with stack traces, so it is not only a replay tool; Temps' error tracking is a separate Sentry-compatible pipeline with grouping and alerting rather than a better version of that.

How we researched this comparison

FullStory free-tier limits and the absence of published paid pricing read from FullStory's own pricing page. Temps capabilities from this repository. No benchmarks were run.

Disclosure: Temps publishes this page and is one of the products being compared.

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