# Temps vs FullStory

> FullStory is a dedicated digital experience platform with a 30,000-session free tier and quote-only paid pricing. Temps includes rrweb-based session replay alongside deployments, analytics and error tracking, unmetered when self-hosted.

Last updated 2026-10-09 · Competitor prices checked October 2026

Canonical: https://temps.sh/compare/vs-fullstory

Session replay you can price before you buy.

## Short answer

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 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: Deeper funnels, heatmaps and frustration signals, and a UI aimed at non-engineers. Temps' replay tooling is engineer-oriented and narrower.

## TL;DR

| Dimension | Temps | FullStory | Better fit |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Experience analytics depth | Replay plus errors and analytics | Funnels, heatmaps, frustration signals | FullStory |
| Pricing transparency | $0 — published, self-hosted | Free to 30k sessions, then quote-only | Temps |
| Where recordings are stored | Your own server | FullStory's cloud | Temps |
| Non-engineering users | Engineer-oriented UI | Built for product and UX teams | FullStory |
| Session volume limits | Bounded by disk, not by plan | Metered by session | Temps |

## Key differences

- **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.

## Features

| Feature | Temps | FullStory |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Session replay | Yes (rrweb-based, unmetered self-hosted) | Yes (Best-in-class) |
| Privacy masking | Yes | Yes |
| Funnels and conversion analysis | Yes (Built-in funnels, defined via API; no heatmap or frustration overlays) | Yes (Core strength, with deeper segmentation) |
| Heatmaps and click maps | No | Yes |
| Frustration signals (rage clicks, dead clicks) | No | Yes (A genuine differentiator) |
| Web analytics | Yes (Privacy-first, built in) | Yes |
| Error tracking | Yes (Sentry-compatible DSN, grouping and alerting) | Yes (Console errors and uncaught exceptions with stack traces, inside replay) |
| Uptime monitoring | Yes (60s checks) | No |
| Deployments | Yes (Git-push PaaS) | No (Not a deployment platform) |
| Published paid pricing | Yes (Free, self-hosted) | No (Quote-only above the free tier) |
| Free tier | Yes (Unlimited self-hosted) | Yes (30,000 sessions/mo, 10 users) |
| Data stays on your infrastructure | Yes (When self-hosted) | No |
| Open source | Yes (MIT / Apache 2.0) | No |

## Pricing

| Item | Temps | FullStory |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free tier | $0 self-hosted, unmetered | 30,000 sessions/mo, 12mo retention, 10 users |
| Paid | $0 (included) | Business / Advanced / Enterprise — quote only |
| Infrastructure | Free on your own VPS | $0 — hosted for you |

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.

## Choose Temps if

- 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 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)

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.

[Step-by-step: add session replay without FullStory](https://temps.sh/blog/how-to-add-session-replay-without-fullstory)

## FAQ

### 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. Temps has basic funnels, but for heatmaps and frustration signals (rage and dead clicks) the answer is 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.

## Sources

- [FullStory pricing](https://www.fullstory.com/pricing/)

## Further reading

- [Session Replay Setup: rrweb SDK and Masking](https://temps.sh/docs/session-replay): Turn on replay per project, mask inputs and play sessions back next to errors.
- [6 Best FullStory Alternatives for Session Replay](https://temps.sh/blog/6-best-fullstory-alternatives-session-replay-2026): Hosted and self-hosted replay tools compared on pricing, retention and data location.
- [How to Add Session Replay Without FullStory](https://temps.sh/blog/how-to-add-session-replay-without-fullstory): Record sessions with rrweb on your own infrastructure, with masking and consent handled.
- [Temps vs LogRocket](https://temps.sh/compare/vs-logrocket): The same comparison against a replay product with published per-session pricing.
- [6 best self-hosted session replay tools](https://temps.sh/blog/best-self-hosted-session-replay-tools-2026): Temps, OpenReplay, rrweb, PostHog, Matomo and Highlight compared.

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