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Website owners who want simple, privacy-focused analytics
Important considerations: Hosted use is donation-supported with a reasonable-use policy; high-volume or specialized deployments should be self-hosted.
Product teams and marketers who want automatic tracking and user behavior insights
Important considerations: Session replay, heatmaps, and error analysis are add-ons on Pro and Premier; pricing above Growth is custom.
| Attribute | GoatCounter | Heap |
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| Overview | 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. | An automatic product analytics platform, now part of Contentsquare, that focuses on low-code event capture, funnels, journeys, enrichment, and enterprise-ready data governance. |
| Pricing | Hosted service is donation-supported and free for reasonable public use; self-hosting is free and open source | Free up to 10K monthly sessions; Growth is self-serve; Pro and Premier are custom-priced, with replay and heatmaps sold as add-ons |
| Deployment | Self-hosted and hosted options | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for | Website owners who want simple, privacy-focused analytics | Product teams and marketers who want automatic tracking and user behavior insights |
| Operator | Martin Tournoij Independent project | Heap Inc. Subsidiary of Content Square SAS |
| Company base | Ireland · European Union | San Francisco, United States · United States |
| Organization scale | 1 maintainers · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. |
| Recent direction | self-hosted expansion Recent official evidence shows a focus on self-hosted expansion. | suite consolidation Recent official evidence shows a focus on suite consolidation. |
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| Important considerations | Hosted use is donation-supported with a reasonable-use policy; high-volume or specialized deployments should be self-hosted. | Session replay, heatmaps, and error analysis are add-ons on Pro and Premier; pricing above Growth is custom. |
| Integrations | Ghost, Hugo | Segment, Salesforce |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-27. | 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 | GoatCounter | Heap |
|---|---|---|
| A/B testing | Not listed | Listed |
| AI insights | Not listed | Listed |
| App analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Cohort analysis | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Not listed |
| Cross-device tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Listed | Not listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Not listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Goals | Not listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Listed | Listed |
| Open source | Listed | Not listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Not listed |
| Real-time data | Listed | Listed |
| Retention analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Not listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |