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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.
Privacy-conscious site owners, SaaS teams, and agencies that need compact traffic and conversion analytics without session replay
Important considerations: There is no permanent cloud free plan. Self-hosting is an Enterprise license rather than the standard open-source deployment path, and pageviews, events, and session extensions count toward usage.
| Attribute | Cloudflare Web Analytics | Pirsch Analytics |
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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. | A privacy-friendly web analytics service with cookieless visitor measurement, events, goals, session analysis, funnels, revenue metrics, Search Console data, A/B testing, APIs, and an Enterprise self-hosting option. |
| Pricing | Free; non-proxied sites are limited to 10 tracked sites, while proxied Cloudflare sites have no Web Analytics site limit | 30-day trial; Standard starts at $6/month and Plus at $12/month for 10,000 monthly pageviews; Enterprise and self-hosted deployment use custom pricing |
| 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 | Privacy-conscious site owners, SaaS teams, and agencies that need compact traffic and conversion analytics without session replay |
| Operator | Cloudflare, Inc. Independent public company | Emvi Software GmbH Independent private company |
| Company base | San Francisco, United States · United States | Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany · European Union |
| Organization scale | 5,156 employees · operator, as of 31 Dec 2025 | 1 employees · operator, as of 30 Dec 2025 |
| Recent direction | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. | marketing attribution Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution. |
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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. | There is no permanent cloud free plan. Self-hosting is an Enterprise license rather than the standard open-source deployment path, and pageviews, events, and session extensions count toward usage. |
| Integrations | Cloudflare dashboard, Cloudflare Pages, Google Tag Manager | Google Search Console, WordPress, REST API, Webhooks, JavaScript and server SDKs |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09. |
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 | Pirsch Analytics |
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| A/B testing | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Not listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Not listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Not listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Not listed |
| Funnels | Not listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Goals | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Not listed | Listed |
| Open source | Not listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Not listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Not listed | Listed |
| SEO research | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Not listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Listed |