Use a focused self-hosted UX loop when an enterprise digital-experience platform is more than your team needs.
“Unlimited” means TraceUX does not meter sessions. Your server capacity, storage, and retention settings still apply.
Contentsquare serves enterprise digital-experience analytics programs. TraceUX serves teams that want to watch real sessions, hear from users, and debug issues without the procurement, data transfer, or platform scope of an enterprise suite.
Small and mid-sized web teams that need actionable session context and user communication rather than enterprise journey analytics.
A practical comparison of the jobs teams commonly move to TraceUX.
| In Contentsquare | In TraceUX |
|---|---|
| Session replay | Self-hosted DOM-event replay with a seekable activity timeline |
| Voice of customer | Contextual feedback, NPS-style surveys, and session-linked support tickets |
| Experience monitoring | Browser logs, backend logs, and endpoint performance percentiles |
| Digital experience activation | What’s new announcements with reads, likes, and comments per release |
| Enterprise platform contract | No required SaaS account, per-seat license, or vendor session quota |
TraceUX does not require a hosted account, charge per seat, or stop recording at a monthly vendor quota. You provide the Linux host and storage, and you decide how long to retain sessions. That makes the tradeoff explicit: predictable infrastructure you operate instead of a usage-based SaaS bill.
Run both trackers briefly, verify your data, then retire the old one.
Install the single Go binary on a Linux host. SQLite is embedded, so there is no separate database service to provision.
NPM (Recommended): install @trace-ux/tracker and connect your site key and server URL. Script tags and Google Tag Manager are alternatives for sites without a bundler. Keep the old tracker temporarily while you validate new recordings.
Mask sensitive fields, choose your retention window, and confirm that sessions, feedback, and logs arrive as expected.
Once TraceUX is working in production, remove the previous vendor snippet so each visit is recorded only once.
TraceUX has no required SaaS subscription, per-seat charge, or vendor-enforced session quota when you self-host it. Your practical capacity depends on the server, storage, retention, and recording settings you choose, so infrastructure is not literally cost-free.
On the TraceUX server and storage you operate. You choose the collection endpoint, retention policy, and masking rules instead of sending recordings to a hosted analytics vendor.
Not in the same sense as Contentsquare. TraceUX is a focused tool for teams that want session replay and a direct feedback loop without the wider enterprise analytics suite.
You operate the service, backups, updates, storage, and access controls. In return, recording data stays on infrastructure you choose and there is no vendor-defined session allowance.