Hotjar
- Free allowance
- Free plan at $0 forever: up to 200k monthly sessions, 1 project, 1 month of data access, replays, heatmaps and funnels, error and performance monitoring and basic surveys; session replays capture 5% of sessions up to 10k a month and the APIs are not included
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- volume-quotaup to 200k monthly sessions and 1 project on Free; session replay capture of 5% of sessions, at most 10k a month
- Evidence
- documented10 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-02checked 2026-11-01 (live); stale on 2026-12-02
| Free tier | Free plan at $0 forever: up to 200k monthly sessions, 1 project, 1 month of data access, replays, heatmaps and funnels, error and performance monitoring and basic surveys; session replays capture 5% of sessions up to 10k a month and the APIs are not included unit mixed; metered on request-count; The allowance mixes monthly analytics sessions with a capped share of recorded replays, so no single unit of the vocabulary fits. The sign-up page of the Free plan is hosted by Contentsquare. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
Free has no APIs and no alerts. |
| Binding | volume-quota The 5% replay sample capped at 10k a month limits what can be watched, before the 200k analytics sessions matter. |
| Identity | email The sign-up page asks for a country and an email address, or Google sign-in; the pricing page states no credit card term for Free. Whether a later step asks for a card or a phone number is unverified: behind a sign-up. |
| Egress | unverified: no export allowance is stated on the pricing page; the APIs row lists Not included for Free |
| Per-object cap | unverified: no per-session or per-event size is stated on the pages read |
| Retention | 1 month of analytics data access on Free, against 13 months on Growth and above; session replays are accessible 1 month (30 days) |
| Interface | unknown A tracking script feeds the web app; the pricing table lists the APIs as not included on Free and an MCP connection as up to 300 tool calls a month, and the interface vocabulary has no term for a browser-only service. |
| Tooling | the tracking script and the web app; an MCP connection with up to 300 tool calls a month |
| Composes with | Session replays, heatmaps and funnels for one free-hosted site, with analytics collected on up to 200k sessions a month and replays on a 5% sample. |
| Reliability | no throttle, ban or data loss is stated on the pages read beyond the 1-month data access |
| Evidence note | documented Plan limits are quoted from the first-party pricing page and the sign-up fields from the sign-up page. No account was opened, so the card term and later steps are unverified: behind a sign-up. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 10
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | www.hotjar.com/pricing/ | the Free plan has 200k monthly sessions at $0 forever |
| 2026-11-01 | www.hotjar.com/pricing/ | the Free plan includes 1 month of data access, 1 project, replays, heatmaps and funnels, error monitoring and basic surveys |
| 2026-11-01 | www.hotjar.com/pricing/ | Free is up to 200k monthly sessions with 1 month of analytics data access and 1 project |
| 2026-11-01 | www.hotjar.com/pricing/ | analytics data access is 1 month on Free and 13 months on the paid plans |
| 2026-11-01 | www.hotjar.com/pricing/ | the APIs are not included on Free |
| 2026-11-01 | www.hotjar.com/pricing/ | alerts are not included on Free |
| 2026-11-01 | www.hotjar.com/pricing/ | Free captures 5% of sessions as replays up to 10k a month |
| 2026-11-01 | www.hotjar.com/pricing/ | session replay access is 1 month on Free |
| 2026-11-01 | www.hotjar.com/pricing/ | the MCP connection on Free is up to 300 tool calls a month |
| 2026-11-01 | app.contentsquare.com/signup | the sign-up page offers an email address or Google sign-in and lists countries |
Unknown values 1
- interface: the access interface was not established