Checked 21 October 2026

Globatics vs Hotjar (Contentsquare)

Hotjar is now part of Contentsquare, and hotjar.com/pricing redirects to Contentsquare’s plans. It is a behavior tool: session replay, heatmaps and surveys. Contentsquare’s free tier records a sample of sessions and leaves out frustration signals, and form analysis is on the custom-priced Pro plan. Globatics is a different tool: live web and product analytics that includes rage, dead and error clicks in a small script, without recording sessions.

Choose Hotjar if

You need to watch session recordings and heatmaps of individual pages.
You want on-site surveys and feedback widgets.
You need form-field analysis.

Choose Globatics if

You want traffic, sources, funnels, revenue and a live map, not recordings.
You want frustration signals on every plan, from a script that doesn’t record the page.
You want to keep the data on your own server.

Side by side

Tracker size: GlobaticsYes: Core under 4 KB brotli (CI-enforced); Web Vitals load lazilyHotjarPartly: 6.6 KB loader + 70.3 KB modules, gzip (measured 21 Oct 2026)
Rage, dead and error clicks: GlobaticsYes: Included, shown liveHotjarPartly: Frustration signals from the paid Growth plansource
Session replay: GlobaticsNo: Not in v1: an event timeline per session insteadHotjarYes: Session replay (free tier: a sample of sessions)source
MCP server: GlobaticsYes: Built in, read-only, API-key authHotjarYes: MCP with a monthly tool-call allowancesource
Self-host: GlobaticsYes: One app, one PostgreSQL database, no feature gatesHotjarNo: Hosted only
Entry price: GlobaticsYes: Free to self-host; Cloud free while in betaHotjarYes: Free tier; Growth from $49/mo (monthly)source

Globatics compared with Hotjar (Contentsquare), facts checked 21 October 2026
Capability	Globatics	Hotjar
Tracker size	Yes: Core under 4 KB brotli (CI-enforced); Web Vitals load lazily	Partly: 6.6 KB loader + 70.3 KB modules, gzip (measured 21 Oct 2026)
Rage, dead and error clicks	Yes: Included, shown live	Partly: Frustration signals from the paid Growth plansource
Session replay	No: Not in v1: an event timeline per session instead	Yes: Session replay (free tier: a sample of sessions)source
MCP server	Yes: Built in, read-only, API-key auth	Yes: MCP with a monthly tool-call allowancesource
Self-host	Yes: One app, one PostgreSQL database, no feature gates	No: Hosted only
Entry price	Yes: Free to self-host; Cloud free while in beta	Yes: Free tier; Growth from $49/mo (monthly)source

● Yes◐ Partly or on a higher plan○ No

Switching from Hotjar

Many teams run both: Globatics for live traffic and friction counts, a replay tool for the few sessions worth watching.
Globatics’ dead and rage clicks point you to the pages where a recording is worth your time.

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Sources

All checked on 21 October 2026. Products change; the source is the authority.