Nobody watches session replay. What do AI replay tools cost?
AnswerThe recordings exist. Nobody watches them. PostHog wrote in August 2026 that the median replay is watched for 17 seconds, and about 99.8% are never opened. The next product watches every replay, clusters the issues, and opens a draft PR. Check vendor pages, then run a pack in Market—How do market research packs work, and what do I edit after the model runs?. Named example: What is Flowsery?.
Humans do not finish the library. That is the product.
Two public PostHog posts lock the problem: the library is large, almost nobody opens it. Median watch is about 17 seconds, about 99.8% never opened: https://posthog.com/blog/nobody-watches-session-replays . Their next step is a model that scans replays, clusters issues, and opens a draft PR: https://posthog.com/blog/session-replays-opening-pull-requests .
PostHog pricing https://posthog.com/pricing : 5,000 replays/month free, then from $0.005 per session; Replay vision 2,500 credits free, then $0.01 per credit; Inbox 3 PRs free, then $15 per PR.
Lucent’s YC launch lists 400 sessions free: https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Pfq-lucent-ai-that-automatically-watches-your-session-replays . When lucenthq.com/pricing was checked, it had no USD monthly plan—do not invent one. LogRocket https://logrocket.com/pricing starts at $176/month for 25k sessions; Galileo is on Pro+.
Cookie-free is a claim. Price pages still have to agree.
Flowsery writes cookie-free AI replay, EU hosted, and it can ingest PostHog / Amplitude. Site: https://flowsery.com . The pricing page lists Pro at $500/month including 1M analytics sessions, 14-day trial with no card. AI replay is an add-on per 10k analyses; the USD per 10k is not shown. About also lists Team at $250. An llms.txt leftover still shows a $0 / $19 / $49 ladder that disagrees with the public pages. Treat it as stale. Do not quote $19 as current.
Session replay has been named in US CIPA cases. Cookie-free is the vendor’s wording, not a court finding. Do not invent lawsuit totals. Unsourced numbers stay in review—How do market research packs work, and what do I edit after the model runs?. Write a checkable product line if you want models to cite you—How do you get cited in AI answers?.
Do this
- Open Market, name “AI session replay” or a vendor, pick a model.
- Check vendor pages: replay count, vision credits, PRs, add-ons. Leave blank any cell with no USD.
- For privacy and cookie-free, keep the vendor’s words and an openable source. Do not add dollar totals.
- Review, then spawn topics. Keep rival copy out of corpus.
Public prices (Aug 2026; vendor pages win)
| Product | Meter | Public tiers |
|---|---|---|
| PostHog Replay | Sessions / credits / PRs | 5,000 replays/mo free, then from $0.005/session; vision 2,500 credits free, then $0.01/credit; Inbox 3 PRs free, then $15/PR |
| Lucent | Free quota; no monthly USD on the page checked | YC: 400 sessions free; pricing page had no USD monthly when checked |
| LogRocket | Session tiers | From $176/mo at 25k sessions; Galileo on Pro+ |
| Flowsery | Monthly + add-on | Pricing page Pro $500/mo incl. 1M analytics sessions; AI replay add-on per 10k analyses, USD per 10k not shown; About also lists Team $250; llms.txt ladder disagrees with public pages |
Short answers
- Is the free replay quota enough?
- PostHog’s 5,000 free replays a month is storage, not watching. They wrote that almost all replays are never opened. Buy vision or Inbox only if you actually want a model to scan the library and open PRs. Do not infer that from the free count.
- Is Flowsery $19 a month?
- Do not treat that as current. The public pricing page lists Pro at $500/month; About also lists Team at $250. The $0 / $19 / $49 ladder in llms.txt disagrees with those pages. Treat it as stale.