LogRocket vs PlanetScale
Session replay, product analytics, and error tracking for frontend apps
vs. Serverless MySQL (Vitess) and Postgres at scale
Pricing tiers
LogRocket
Free
1,000 sessions/month. 3 seats. 1-month retention. Basic session replay + JS error reporting.
Free
Team (low)
10k sessions/month. 5 seats. 1+ month retention.
$69/mo
Team (high)
25k sessions/month. 10 seats.
$139/mo
Professional
From $295/mo. Custom volume + retention. AI (Galileo) + MCP, Product Analytics (dashboards, funnels, heatmaps), API access 200/mo.
$295/mo
Enterprise
Custom 1M+ sessions. Unlimited seats. Self-hosted option. Custom BAA + legal + security.
Custom
PlanetScale
Postgres EBS single-node — PS-5
Single-node EBS, 512 MiB RAM, arm64. Entry point for Postgres.
$5/mo
Postgres EBS HA — PS-5
3-node (primary + 2 replicas), 512 MiB, arm64.
$15/mo
Vitess (non-Metal) — PS-10
Vitess MySQL sharded cluster, 1 GiB RAM.
$39/mo
Postgres Metal — M-10
3-node Metal, 1 GiB RAM + 10 GiB local storage. Much higher IOPS.
$50/mo
Vitess Metal — M-160
Vitess Metal, 16 GiB RAM + 110 GiB storage.
$609/mo
Enterprise
Custom agreements, dedicated regions, 99.99% SLA.
Custom
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing free on LogRocket vs pg-ebs-nonha-starter on PlanetScale.
| Metric | LogRocket | PlanetScale |
|---|---|---|
| ha | — | 0 nodes |
| ram mib | — | 512 MiB |
Features
LogRocket · 14 features
- Cohort Analysis — Group users by behavior. Professional+.
- Custom Events — track() events attached to sessions.
- Frustration Signals — Auto-detect rage clicks, dead clicks, error clicks, u-turns.
- Funnels — Multi-step conversion funnels tied to session replays.
- Galileo AI — AI-summarized issues + suggested fixes. Professional+.
- Heatmaps — Click + scroll + rage click heatmaps. Professional+.
- JavaScript Error Reporting — Stack traces, source maps, user context, console + network before error.
- Network Monitoring — All XHR/fetch calls with req/res payload. PII redacted.
- Performance Monitoring — Core Web Vitals + custom metrics per session.
- Privacy Controls — Auto input sanitization + custom privacy rules.
- Product Analytics — Funnels, retention, conversion rates (Professional+).
- Session Replay — Pixel-perfect recordings with DOM + console + network + state.
- Source Map Support — Symbolicated stack traces via upload on build.
- User Identification — identify() to link sessions to user IDs + traits.
PlanetScale · 12 features
- Backups — Automated daily backups with retention.
- Database Branching — Git-like branches of your DB schema (not data). Create, diff, merge via deploy r…
- Deploy Requests — Schema changes in a feature branch get reviewed + auto-applied to main with zero…
- HIPAA — HIPAA-compliant deployments (Enterprise).
- Metal (NVMe) — Dedicated NVMe local storage. 10x IOPS vs EBS, latency-critical workloads.
- PgBouncer Pooler — Managed PgBouncer for Postgres clusters. Optional dedicated pooler.
- PlanetScale Boost — Query result cache with sub-ms reads.
- Point-in-Time Recovery — Restore cluster to any point within retention window.
- Postgres on PlanetScale — PostgreSQL 15+ with the same branching + deploy-request flow. Launched 2024.
- Query Insights — Per-query performance analytics, slow query tracking, explain plans.
- Read-only Regions — Route reads to the nearest region for lower latency.
- Vitess (MySQL at scale) — Horizontally-sharded MySQL (YouTube-scale) — original PlanetScale offering.
Developer interfaces
| Kind | LogRocket | PlanetScale |
|---|---|---|
| CLI | — | PlanetScale CLI (pscale) |
| SDK | LogRocket Android, logrocket (browser), LogRocket iOS, LogRocket React, logrocket-react-native | @planetscale/database |
| REST | LogRocket API | Management API |
| MCP | LogRocket MCP | PlanetScale MCP |
| OTHER | Webhooks | MySQL Wire Protocol, Postgres Wire Protocol |
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