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Temps vs FullStory

Researched and updated 2026-08-07

Session replay you can price before you buy.

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.

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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
~$6/mo on your own VPS
$0
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The short answer

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

Choose FullStory if you…

  • 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

Why teams switch from FullStory

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
    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
Infrastructure~$6/mo on your own VPS$0 — hosted for you

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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