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Ackee vs Cloudflare Web Analytics comparison

Compare pricing, deployment, product fit, integrations, and capabilities side by side.

Catalog capabilities may require a paid plan, add-on or hosted edition. “Not listed” means unverified here, not unavailable. Confirm the exact edition, usage limits and privacy settings.

Starting prices use different billing periods and usage units. Compare the same traffic, events, retention and seats.

Which platform fits your needs?

Choose Ackee if

Developers and website owners who need simple traffic and event reporting on infrastructure they control.

Capabilities listed only for Ackee in this selection

Important considerations: Current releases require Node.js 24 or newer and MongoDB. Your team owns upgrades, availability and security; evaluate its aggregate reports against your funnel and replay requirements.

Choose Cloudflare Web Analytics if

Site owners who need free, low-complexity traffic and real-user performance metrics rather than event funnels, replay, or product analytics

Capabilities listed only for Cloudflare Web Analytics in this selection

Important considerations: It focuses on aggregate traffic and performance metrics. It does not replace event-based product analytics, conversion funnels, session replay, heatmaps, or user-level journeys, and a Cloudflare account is required.

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Attribute Ackee Cloudflare Web Analytics
Overview A small, self-hosted web analytics tool with cookieless traffic statistics, custom actions and a GraphQL API. You run the Node.js application and MongoDB database.A free, privacy-first web analytics and real-user monitoring service that measures visits, pageviews, page-load performance, and Core Web Vitals without cookies, local storage, fingerprinting, or data sampling.
Pricing Free MIT-licensed software; budget separately for hosting, backups and maintenance. No vendor-hosted subscription is listed.Free; non-proxied sites are limited to 10 tracked sites, while proxied Cloudflare sites have no Web Analytics site limit
Deployment Self-hostedVendor-hosted cloud
Best for Developers and website owners who need simple traffic and event reporting on infrastructure they control.Site owners who need free, low-complexity traffic and real-user performance metrics rather than event funnels, replay, or product analytics
Operator Tobias Reich
Independent project
Cloudflare, Inc.
Independent public company
Company base Usingen, Germany · European UnionSan Francisco, United States · United States
Organization scale No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed.5,156 employees · operator, as of 31 Dec 2025
Recent direction operational reliability
Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability.
operational reliability
Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability.
Key features
  • Cookieless traffic statistics
  • Custom actions and event values
  • GraphQL API
  • Self-hosted Node.js and MongoDB
  • Visits and pageviews
  • Page-load timing
  • Core Web Vitals
  • URL, browser, OS, country, and element filters
  • 100% pageview measurement without sampling
  • Cookieless JavaScript beacon
  • Automatic setup for proxied Cloudflare sites
  • Support for non-proxied sites
Important considerations Current releases require Node.js 24 or newer and MongoDB. Your team owns upgrades, availability and security; evaluate its aggregate reports against your funnel and replay requirements.It focuses on aggregate traffic and performance metrics. It does not replace event-based product analytics, conversion funnels, session replay, heatmaps, or user-level journeys, and a Cloudflare account is required.
Integrations JavaScript, GraphQL, DockerCloudflare dashboard, Cloudflare Pages, Google Tag Manager
Fact check We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30. We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09.

Capability matrix

This matrix shows capabilities recorded in our catalog. Not listed means we have not confirmed the capability here. Check the linked vendor sources for plan, deployment, and usage limits.

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AttributeAckeeCloudflare Web Analytics
Audience insights Not listed Listed
Cookieless Listed Listed
Data ownership Listed Not listed
Event tracking Listed Not listed
Free plan Listed Listed
Open source Listed Not listed
Privacy-first Listed Listed
Self-hosted Listed Not listed
Web analytics Listed Listed
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