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Starting prices use different billing periods and usage units. Compare the same traffic, events, retention and seats.
Choose Ackee ifDevelopers and website owners who need simple traffic and event reporting on infrastructure they control.
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 Offen Fair Web Analytics ifTeams that value visitor access to their own analytics data and accept measuring only people who opt in.
Important considerations: Uses first-party cookies after opt-in; it is not cookieless. Data expires after six months. Public releases last recorded here are from May 2024; assess maintenance and security before adoption.
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| Attribute | Ackee | Offen Fair Web Analytics |
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| 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 self-hosted analytics project built around explicit visitor consent and end-to-end encrypted usage data. Visitors can inspect and delete their own data; operators get aggregate traffic reports. |
| Pricing | Free MIT-licensed software; budget separately for hosting, backups and maintenance. No vendor-hosted subscription is listed. | Free Apache-2.0-licensed software; hosting and operational work are separate costs. |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Self-hosted |
| Best for | Developers and website owners who need simple traffic and event reporting on infrastructure they control. | Teams that value visitor access to their own analytics data and accept measuring only people who opt in. |
| Operator | Tobias Reich Independent project | Offen project Independent project |
| Company base | Usingen, Germany · European Union | Berlin, Germany · European Union |
| Organization scale | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. |
| Recent direction | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. |
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| 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. | Uses first-party cookies after opt-in; it is not cookieless. Data expires after six months. Public releases last recorded here are from May 2024; assess maintenance and security before adoption. |
| Integrations | JavaScript, GraphQL, Docker | JavaScript, Docker |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30. |
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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| Attribute | Ackee | Offen Fair Web Analytics |
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| Cookieless | Listed | Not listed |
| Data ownership | Listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Open source | Listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Listed |