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Site owners who need free, low-complexity traffic and real-user performance metrics rather than event funnels, replay, or product analytics
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.
Engineering and product teams that need self-hosted replay, debugging context, and product analytics
Important considerations: Cloud Free includes 2 users, 1 project, and 7-day retention. Paid Serverless includes unlimited users and projects with 30-day retention. Self-hosting requires your own infrastructure; Dedicated costs depend on the instance, region, and running time.
| Attribute | Cloudflare Web Analytics | OpenReplay |
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| Overview | 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. | An open-source session replay and product analytics platform that can run on your infrastructure, combining replays with errors, network activity, performance data, funnels, journeys, heatmaps, web analytics, and co-browsing. |
| Pricing | Free; non-proxied sites are limited to 10 tracked sites, while proxied Cloudflare sites have no Web Analytics site limit | Open-source self-hosting is free. Cloud Free: 1,000 sessions/month; Serverless: $5.95 per 1,000 sessions/month; Dedicated: from $199/month, billed hourly; Enterprise: custom. |
| Deployment | Vendor-hosted cloud | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Site owners who need free, low-complexity traffic and real-user performance metrics rather than event funnels, replay, or product analytics | Engineering and product teams that need self-hosted replay, debugging context, and product analytics |
| Operator | Cloudflare, Inc. Independent public company | Asayer SAS Independent private company |
| Company base | San Francisco, United States · United States | Distributed organization |
| Organization scale | 5,156 employees · operator, as of 31 Dec 2025 | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. |
| Recent direction | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. | product analytics Recent official evidence shows a focus on product analytics. |
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| 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. | Cloud Free includes 2 users, 1 project, and 7-day retention. Paid Serverless includes unlimited users and projects with 30-day retention. Self-hosting requires your own infrastructure; Dedicated costs depend on the instance, region, and running time. |
| Integrations | Cloudflare dashboard, Cloudflare Pages, Google Tag Manager | GitHub, Jira, Slack, Sentry, Datadog |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-04. |
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.
| Attribute | Cloudflare Web Analytics | OpenReplay |
|---|---|---|
| AI insights | Not listed | Listed |
| App analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Not listed |
| Data export | Not listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Not listed | Listed |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Listed |
| Error tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Not listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Not listed | Listed |
| Open source | Not listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Not listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Not listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Not listed |