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Developers and product teams who need cross-platform analytics
Important considerations: Countly Lite is a narrower community edition; managed Flex add-ons and the full self-hosted Enterprise suite can materially change scope and cost.
Regulated businesses and public organizations that need privacy controls, consent management, and detailed first-party analytics
Important considerations: Piwik PRO is vendor-hosted in public or private cloud rather than a do-it-yourself self-hosted product. Session logs and heatmaps are available, but it is not a session-replay platform.
| Attribute | Countly | Piwik PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | A privacy-focused product analytics platform offered in self-hosted and private-cloud editions, covering web, mobile, desktop, journeys, feedback, messaging, and AI-assisted analysis. | A privacy-first analytics and data activation suite for regulated organizations, combining web and mobile analytics, tag management, consent management, customer journeys, ecommerce reporting, and real-time audience activation. |
| Pricing | Countly Lite is free and self-hosted; private-cloud Flex is free up to 500 MAU and paid Flex starts at $40/month; Enterprise is custom | Business starts at €36/month for up to 2M monthly actions and 20 domains; Enterprise starts at €366/month billed annually |
| Deployment | Self-hosted and hosted options | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for | Developers and product teams who need cross-platform analytics | Regulated businesses and public organizations that need privacy controls, consent management, and detailed first-party analytics |
| Operator | Countly Ltd Independent private company | Piwik PRO SA Subsidiary of Cookie Information Group |
| Company base | London, United Kingdom · United Kingdom | Wrocław, Poland · European Union |
| Organization scale | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. | about 200 team members · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 |
| Recent direction | product analytics Recent official evidence shows a focus on product analytics. | platform integration Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration. |
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| Important considerations | Countly Lite is a narrower community edition; managed Flex add-ons and the full self-hosted Enterprise suite can materially change scope and cost. | Piwik PRO is vendor-hosted in public or private cloud rather than a do-it-yourself self-hosted product. Session logs and heatmaps are available, but it is not a session-replay platform. |
| Integrations | Segment, Zapier | Google Ads, Google Search Console, Looker Studio, Power BI, Consent platforms |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. |
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 | Countly | Piwik PRO |
|---|---|---|
| App analytics | Listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Not listed | Listed |
| Cross-device tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Not listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Listed |
| Error tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Not listed |
| Funnels | Listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Goals | Listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Listed | Listed |
| Open source | Listed | Not listed |
| Personalization | Listed | Not listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Listed | Listed |
| Retention analytics | Listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Not listed |
| User feedback | Listed | Not listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |