Overview
The short version
Hotjar: Hotjar is a behavior-analytics product known for heatmaps, session recordings, surveys and feedback widgets. It answers how people use a page more than how much traffic you got. Plans are priced by session volume.
OnyxMetric: a paid web and product analytics platform with cookieless tracking, session replay on the Pro tier, funnels, retention, goals, events, Web Vitals, error tracking, feature flags and experiments, Google Search Console data and an MCP server for AI assistants. Pricing is per site per month: Base $99, Plus $199, Pro $299.
Hotjar fits best when: UX and marketing teams that want heatmaps, surveys and recordings to understand page-level behavior.
Feature comparison
| Feature | OnyxMetric | Hotjar |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per site per month: Base $99, Plus $199, Pro $299. Yearly is 10x monthly. | Plans scaled by session volume. |
| Cookieless by default | No cookies, no consent banner for analytics. | Uses cookies. |
| Session replay | Included on the Pro tier. | |
| Funnels | ||
| Retention | ||
| Feature flags and experiments | ||
| Web Vitals | ||
| Error tracking |
Hotjar details reflect public information at time of writing and may have changed. Confirm on the Hotjar site. A dash means partial or optional. Rows with no verified data for a product are omitted.
Which one should you pick?
Choose Hotjar if
- Heatmaps and on-page surveys are central to your workflow.
- You mainly run UX research rather than traffic reporting.
- You already use another tool for core analytics.
Choose OnyxMetric if
- Full traffic and product analytics (sessions, funnels, retention) in addition to replay.
- Web Vitals and error tracking tied to the same sessions you watch.
- One tool and one price, rather than pairing a behavior tool with an analytics tool.
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