Fusionaly vs GoatCounter comparison

Compare pricing, deployment, product fit, integrations, and capabilities side by side.

Catalog capabilities may require a paid plan, add-on or hosted edition. “Not listed” means unverified here, not unavailable. Confirm the exact edition, usage limits and privacy settings.

Starting prices use different billing periods and usage units. Compare the same traffic, events, retention and seats.

Which platform fits your needs?

Choose Fusionaly if

Site owners and developers who can operate their own analytics server and want traffic, goals and revenue in one place.

Capabilities listed only for Fusionaly in this selection

Web analytics Revenue tracking Goals

Important considerations: You operate the server and backups. Daily visitor IDs do not identify the same person across days. Support is community-based, with no SLA. Optional AI clients receive the query results they request; self-hosting does not keep those results out of the client.

Choose GoatCounter if

Website owners who want simple, privacy-focused analytics

Capabilities listed only for GoatCounter in this selection

Privacy-first GDPR compliant CCPA compliant Real-time data Audience insights User segments Data export Integrations Custom reports

Important considerations: Hosted use is donation-supported with a reasonable-use policy; high-volume or specialized deployments should be self-hosted.

Shared capabilities

Self-hosted Open source Free plan Cookieless Event tracking Data ownership

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Attribute	Fusionaly	GoatCounter
Overview	Self-hosted web analytics with a Go service and SQLite storage. Fusionaly reports visitors, traffic sources, custom events, goals and purchase revenue, with shareable dashboards and a read-only MCP interface.	A lightweight, privacy-aware open-source web analytics service with cookieless visit counting, referrers, campaigns, browser and location reports, exports, and JavaScript-free tracking options.
Pricing	Free and open source under MIT, with no paid tier or software event/site quota. You pay for your server and any external AI client you choose.	Hosted service is donation-supported and free for reasonable public use; self-hosting is free and open source
Deployment	Self-hosted	Self-hosted and hosted options
Best for	Site owners and developers who can operate their own analytics server and want traffic, goals and revenue in one place.	Website owners who want simple, privacy-focused analytics
Operator	Carlos Castellanos Independent project	Martin Tournoij Independent project
Company base	Spain · European Union	Ireland · European Union
Organization scale	1 maintainers · operator, as of 31 Oct 2026	1 maintainers · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026
Recent direction	operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability.	self-hosted expansion Recent official evidence shows a focus on self-hosted expansion.
Key features	Visitors, referrers, campaigns and device reports Custom events, goals and revenue tracking Visitor flows and shared dashboards Read-only MCP for external AI clients	Cookieless visit counting Open-source self-hosting Hosted service Referrer and campaign reports Browser and location reports JavaScript-free tracking pixel Data export
Important considerations	You operate the server and backups. Daily visitor IDs do not identify the same person across days. Support is community-based, with no SLA. Optional AI clients receive the query results they request; self-hosting does not keep those results out of the client.	Hosted use is donation-supported with a reasonable-use policy; high-volume or specialized deployments should be self-hosted.
Integrations	JavaScript, MCP	Ghost, Hugo
Fact check	We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-10-31.	We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-27.

Capability matrix

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	Fusionaly	GoatCounter
Audience insights	Not listed	Listed
CCPA compliant	Not listed	Listed
Cookieless	Listed	Listed
Custom reports	Not listed	Listed
Data export	Not listed	Listed
Data ownership	Listed	Listed
Event tracking	Listed	Listed
Free plan	Listed	Listed
GDPR compliant	Not listed	Listed
Goals	Listed	Not listed
Integrations	Not listed	Listed
Open source	Listed	Listed
Privacy-first	Not listed	Listed
Real-time data	Not listed	Listed
Revenue tracking	Listed	Not listed
Self-hosted	Listed	Listed
User segments	Not listed	Listed
Web analytics	Listed	Not listed

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