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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 website, product, and engineering teams that want analytics with performance, errors, replay, and optional self-hosting
Important considerations: Cloud has no permanent free plan and the trial requires a payment method. Replay, feature flags, and A/B testing require Plus; self-hosting shifts upgrades, storage, security, and backups to your team.
| Attribute | Cloudflare Web Analytics | Swetrix |
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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-focused, open-source web analytics platform with cookieless traffic and event reporting, funnels, performance and error monitoring, session analysis, replay, feature flags, and A/B testing in cloud or self-hosted editions. |
| Pricing | Free; non-proxied sites are limited to 10 tracked sites, while proxied Cloudflare sites have no Web Analytics site limit | Cloud has a 14-day trial; Standard starts at $19/month and Plus at $39/month for 100,000 monthly events; Enterprise is custom; self-hosted Community Edition is free |
| 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 website, product, and engineering teams that want analytics with performance, errors, replay, and optional self-hosting |
| Operator | Cloudflare, Inc. Independent public company | Swetrix Ltd Independent private company |
| Company base | San Francisco, United States · United States | Edinburgh, United Kingdom · United Kingdom |
| 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. | privacy-focused analytics Recent official evidence shows a focus on privacy-focused 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 has no permanent free plan and the trial requires a payment method. Replay, feature flags, and A/B testing require Plus; self-hosting shifts upgrades, storage, security, and backups to your team. |
| Integrations | Cloudflare dashboard, Cloudflare Pages, Google Tag Manager | Google Analytics import, WordPress, Google Tag Manager, REST API |
| 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 | Swetrix |
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| A/B testing | Not listed | Listed |
| Ad-blocker resistant | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Not listed | 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 | 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 |
| Self-hosted | Not listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Not listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Listed |