Microsoft Clarity vs OpenReplay
No leader: the top candidate Microsoft Clarity has only 0.25 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for heatmaps analytics. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Microsoft Clarity
Clarity provides heatmaps, session recordings, and AI-driven analytics to help you understand how users interact with your website or app. It's completely free with unlimited access to all features.
OpenReplay
A session recording and analytics platform that captures user interactions, network activity, errors, and performance metrics. Can be self-hosted on your own infrastructure or used as a managed cloud service, with full data control and no third-party data processors.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Microsoft Clarity
Completely free forever
- ClarityFree
- Session recordings
- Heatmaps (click, scroll, area, conversion)
- Rage click and dead click detection
- 40+ segmentation filters
- AI copilot and session insights
- +6 more
OpenReplay
From $199/mo managed cloud. Free tier available. Open-source self-hosted option.
- Open-SourceFree
- Session Replay
- Product Analytics
- Self-hosted
- Community support
- FreeFree
- Session Replay
- Product Analytics
- Automated backups
- Dedicated$199/mo minimum, hourly billing at $0.276/hr
- Session Replay
- Product Analytics
- Unlimited users and recordings
- Monitoring and alerts
- SSO/SAML
- +5 more
- EnterpriseContact sales
- All Dedicated features
- SAML/SCIM
- Audit logging
- Dedicated support
- Custom volume pricing
- +1 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
Microsoft Clarity
- Google Analytics
- Google Ads
- HubSpot
- Zapier
- Optimizely
- AB Tasty
- WordPress
- WooCommerce
- ClickFunnels
- Bubble
- Elevar
- Gatsby
- Google Tag Manager
- Joomla
OpenReplay
- Sentry
- Datadog
- Bugsnag
- Jira
- GitHub
- Linear
- Slack
- CloudWatch
- Stackdriver
- Elastic
- Apollo
- Relay
- Redux
- Vuex
- MobX
- NgRx
- Pinia
- Zustand
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.