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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, engineering, support, and UX teams that need replay tied to technical diagnostics and product analytics
Important considerations: Cost scales with captured sessions and configuration. Self-hosting is an Enterprise option rather than a free community edition; Galileo AI and enterprise controls depend on packaging.
| Attribute | GoatCounter | LogRocket |
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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 AI-assisted digital experience platform that connects web and mobile session replay with product analytics, frontend errors, network logs, performance monitoring, heatmaps, funnels, surveys, and issue diagnosis. |
| Pricing | Hosted service is donation-supported and free for reasonable public use; self-hosting is free and open source | Session-based pricing with a 14-day trial; the public calculator currently starts at $176/month for 25,000 captured sessions, while final cost depends on seats, retention, add-ons, and deployment |
| Deployment | Self-hosted and hosted options | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Website owners who want simple, privacy-focused analytics | Product, engineering, support, and UX teams that need replay tied to technical diagnostics and product analytics |
| Operator | Martin Tournoij Independent project | LogRocket, Inc. Independent private company |
| Company base | Ireland · European Union | Boston, United States · United States |
| Organization scale | 1 maintainers · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 | at least 110 employees · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 |
| Recent direction | self-hosted expansion Recent official evidence shows a focus on self-hosted expansion. | AI-assisted analysis Recent official evidence shows a focus on AI-assisted analysis. |
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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. | Cost scales with captured sessions and configuration. Self-hosting is an Enterprise option rather than a free community edition; Galileo AI and enterprise controls depend on packaging. |
| Integrations | Ghost, Hugo | Sentry, Datadog, Jira, Salesforce, Segment, Snowflake |
| 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 | LogRocket |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Listed |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Listed |
| Error tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Not 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 | Not listed |
| Retention analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| Surveys | Not listed | Listed |
| User feedback | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |