GoatCounter vs Offen Fair Web Analytics 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 GoatCounter if

Website owners who want simple, privacy-focused analytics

Capabilities listed only for GoatCounter in this selection

Cookieless GDPR compliant CCPA compliant Real-time data Event tracking 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.

Choose Offen Fair Web Analytics if

Teams that value visitor access to their own analytics data and accept measuring only people who opt in.

Capabilities listed only for Offen Fair Web Analytics in this selection

Web analytics

Important considerations: Uses first-party cookies after opt-in; it is not cookieless. Data expires after six months. Public releases last recorded here are from May 2024; assess maintenance and security before adoption.

Shared capabilities

Privacy-first Self-hosted Open source Free plan Data ownership

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Attribute	GoatCounter	Offen Fair Web Analytics
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.	A self-hosted analytics project built around explicit visitor consent and end-to-end encrypted usage data. Visitors can inspect and delete their own data; operators get aggregate traffic reports.
Pricing	Hosted service is donation-supported and free for reasonable public use; self-hosting is free and open source	Free Apache-2.0-licensed software; hosting and operational work are separate costs.
Deployment	Self-hosted and hosted options	Self-hosted
Best for	Website owners who want simple, privacy-focused analytics	Teams that value visitor access to their own analytics data and accept measuring only people who opt in.
Operator	Martin Tournoij Independent project	Offen project Independent project
Company base	Ireland · European Union	Berlin, Germany · European Union
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.	operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability.
Key features	Cookieless visit counting Open-source self-hosting Hosted service Referrer and campaign reports Browser and location reports JavaScript-free tracking pixel Data export	Explicit opt-in before collection Visitor data access and deletion End-to-end encrypted usage data Traffic, referrer and campaign reporting Self-hosted binary or Docker deployment
Important considerations	Hosted use is donation-supported with a reasonable-use policy; high-volume or specialized deployments should be self-hosted.	Uses first-party cookies after opt-in; it is not cookieless. Data expires after six months. Public releases last recorded here are from May 2024; assess maintenance and security before adoption.
Integrations	Ghost, Hugo	JavaScript, Docker
Fact check	We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-27.	We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30.

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

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