A Hotjar alternative that tells you what to fix

Hotjar gives you heatmaps and session replays, and you work out what they mean. Betterloop does the working out: one script tag picks up rage clicks, dead buttons, JS errors and slow pages, and you get back one ranked list of fixes, each with the evidence behind it.

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First, what happened to Hotjar

Hotjar is now part of Contentsquare. As of 31 October 2026, hotjar.com opens a Contentsquare page that says new Hotjar accounts can no longer be created, and new users sign up on Contentsquare instead. Hotjar's old free plan captured 35 sessions a day. Contentsquare's free plan lists 200,000 sessions a month with heatmaps, session replay, funnels, surveys and error monitoring.

So if you are looking for Hotjar today, the real choice is Contentsquare, or a tool that works differently. The comparison below uses the plans hotjar.com links to now.

The difference in one line

Hotjar, now Contentsquare

Shows you what happened.

Heatmaps, session replays, funnels and surveys, with AI summaries on paid plans. Someone on your team watches, reads and decides what to change.

Betterloop

Tells you what to change.

No recordings. The detectors read what the script and your other tools report, rank the problems, mostly by how many real people each one reaches, and hand you the list.

Side by side

BetterloopHotjar (Contentsquare)
What you getOne ranked list of fixes, with the evidence behind each oneHeatmaps, session replays, funnels and surveys to explore
Session replayNo. It never records screens, keystrokes or mouse pathsYes. The free plan captures 5% of sessions, up to 10,000 a month
HeatmapsNoYes, on every plan
Surveys and feedbackNoYes. The free plan includes 100 responses a month
Rage clicks, dead clicks, JS errorsDetected, grouped and ranked for youJavaScript errors on every plan. Filtering by frustration behaviours starts on Growth
Slow pagesLCP and INP per page, slow pages raised as fixesCore Web Vitals on the Free and Growth plans
Your other toolsGitHub, Sentry, Stripe, Plausible, PageSpeed and a site audit feed the same listIntegrations such as Google Analytics, Jira, HubSpot and Slack on every plan
AI coding agents (MCP)Hosted MCP server for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, on the free planMCP on the free plan, up to 300 tool calls a month
Free plan$0, no card: 1 project, 10,000 events a month, weekly insight runs$0: 200,000 sessions a month, 1 project, 1 month of data
Paid plansPro at $19 a month is planned (5 projects, 500,000 events, daily runs). Not on sale yetGrowth from $39 a month billed yearly, or $49 monthly, for 7,000 sessions. Pro and Enterprise on request

Hotjar column: Contentsquare's Experience Analytics plans as linked from hotjar.com, checked 31 October 2026. Prices and limits change; check the sources below before you decide.

Where Hotjar is stronger

  • You can watch the session

    When a number looks wrong, a replay shows exactly what the person did. Betterloop does not record sessions, so it cannot show you that.

  • Heatmaps and surveys

    Click and scroll heatmaps, on-page surveys and feedback widgets. Betterloop has none of these.

  • Funnels and journeys

    Contentsquare maps the paths to conversion and where people drop off. Betterloop records navigation, but has no funnel builder.

  • A much bigger free allowance

    200,000 sessions a month, against Betterloop's 10,000 events. A single visit can send several events: a pageview, clicks, vitals.

  • A large, established platform

    Many integrations, A/B testing tools, mobile app analytics, and dedicated support with SLAs on Enterprise.

Where Betterloop is different

  • Nothing to watch

    Detectors read clicks, errors, web vitals and navigation, rank what they find, and hand you the list. No hours of recordings.

  • Private by default

    No cookies, no session replay, no keystrokes, no form values. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control turn it off completely.

  • One small script

    Dependency-free, with a build gate that fails if it grows past 10KB gzipped.

  • More than the browser

    Connect GitHub, Sentry, Stripe or Plausible and their findings land in the same ranked list, next to what real users hit.

  • Fix it where you work

    Read the list on the dashboard, in a weekly email, in Slack, or ask Claude Code or Codex what to fix next over MCP.

Details: what is and is not collected, how the detectors rank and what each connection reads.

Who should pick which

Pick Hotjar (Contentsquare) if

  • You want to watch real sessions, or show recordings to your team
  • You run surveys or user research
  • You need heatmaps and funnels for marketing pages
  • You have a lot of traffic and want to stay on a free plan

Pick Betterloop if

  • You are a small team or a solo developer with no time to watch recordings
  • You want a to-do list, not a dashboard to explore
  • You would rather not record your visitors' sessions
  • You fix things with Claude Code or Codex and want them to see production

Or run both. They answer different questions, and Betterloop is one more script tag that does not need to be the only analytics on the page.

Try it on your own site

Free, no card. Paste one script tag, connect what else you run, and read the ranked list.

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Sources

Hotjar facts on this page were checked on 31 October 2026 at hotjar.com (now opens contentsquare.com/hotjar) and hotjar.com/pricing (now opens contentsquare.com/pricing). Betterloop facts come from our own pricing and docs. Hotjar and Contentsquare are trademarks of their owners. Betterloop is not affiliated with either.