Mouseflow vs Hotjar: monthly sessions, free plans and what the entry plans cost

Mouseflow vs Hotjar: entry plans on an annual basis

Mouseflow Essential is $25 a month on Mouseflow's annual switch for 5,000 sessions a month, and Hotjar's Growth plan is $39 a month on yearly payment for 7,000 sessions a month, as read on October 30, 2026. Hotjar is now part of Contentsquare, so Growth is priced on Contentsquare's pages. Both vendors also run a free plan, at 500 sessions a month on Mouseflow and 200,000 on Contentsquare.

Plerdy Startup is $21 a month billed annually. It counts 500 heatmap page views a day and 5,000 video sessions in total, so it is not a monthly-session meter. A Plerdy video session is one recorded visit, and the total is managed by deleting recordings.

Mouseflow's cards print "/month" under both switches, never "billed annually". The button under this table opens Plerdy's 14-day trial.

Free plans: 500 sessions against 200,000

Mouseflow's Free Forever plan records 500 sessions a month for 1 website project, with 1 funnel and 1 month of data retention. Mouseflow describes it as keeping limited features. Hotjar's Free plan on Contentsquare is $0 forever, with 1 project and 1 month of data access.

Of its 200,000 sessions, Contentsquare Free captures replays for 5 percent, up to 10,000 a month.

Plerdy's Free plan is $0 forever, with 100 heatmap page views a day on up to three pages and 500 video sessions in total.

Trials and the 14-day guarantee

Every Mouseflow sign-up starts with 14 days of full-feature access and no credit card, with 2,000 sessions, 5 website projects and 10 funnels. Afterward the account can stay on Free Forever. Plerdy's pricing page also offers a 14-day free trial and says no credit card is required; that trial uses the Scale plan's limits.

Mouseflow's FAQ limits its 14-day money-back guarantee to first-time annual subscribers on plans other than Enterprise.

Contentsquare gives new accounts a 15-day Growth trial with no payment details, plus a 30-day money-back guarantee on new Growth accounts. Plerdy's pricing page prints no money-back guarantee, and its FAQ says it refunds only payments made in the last 30 days, on request through Support.

What happens when the sessions run out

Mouseflow says that when you run out of sessions, all tracking stops until your next refill date. Contentsquare says Growth gets no new heatmap or funnel data until next month's reset date.

Plerdy resets on a different clock. Its Terms say data collection stops when the daily view limit is exceeded, and heatmap limits reset daily. Plerdy adds no automatic charges when a limit is reached.

Where Plerdy fits for a small store

Plerdy suits a store that sizes its tool by daily heatmap page views rather than monthly sessions. Its heatmap limit is a daily page-view limit: 100 on Free, 500 on Startup and 1,500 on Scale. Plerdy says its e-commerce tracking captures how page elements influence sales, with each element assigned a purchase value. Startup is $32 a month billed monthly, or $21 a month billed annually.

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