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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.
Engineering and product teams that need self-hosted replay, debugging context, and product analytics
Important considerations: Cloud Free includes 2 users, 1 project, and 7-day retention. Paid Serverless includes unlimited users and projects with 30-day retention. Self-hosting requires your own infrastructure; Dedicated costs depend on the instance, region, and running time.
| Attribute | GoatCounter | OpenReplay |
|---|---|---|
| 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 open-source session replay and product analytics platform that can run on your infrastructure, combining replays with errors, network activity, performance data, funnels, journeys, heatmaps, web analytics, and co-browsing. |
| Pricing | Hosted service is donation-supported and free for reasonable public use; self-hosting is free and open source | Open-source self-hosting is free. Cloud Free: 1,000 sessions/month; Serverless: $5.95 per 1,000 sessions/month; Dedicated: from $199/month, billed hourly; Enterprise: custom. |
| Deployment | Self-hosted and hosted options | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Website owners who want simple, privacy-focused analytics | Engineering and product teams that need self-hosted replay, debugging context, and product analytics |
| Operator | Martin Tournoij Independent project | Asayer SAS Independent private company |
| Company base | Ireland · European Union | Distributed organization |
| 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. | product analytics Recent official evidence shows a focus on product analytics. |
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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. | Cloud Free includes 2 users, 1 project, and 7-day retention. Paid Serverless includes unlimited users and projects with 30-day retention. Self-hosting requires your own infrastructure; Dedicated costs depend on the instance, region, and running time. |
| Integrations | Ghost, Hugo | GitHub, Jira, Slack, Sentry, Datadog |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-27. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-04. |
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 | OpenReplay |
|---|---|---|
| AI insights | Not listed | Listed |
| App analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Not listed |
| Custom reports | Listed | Not 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 | Listed |
| Funnels | Not listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Listed | Listed |
| Open source | Listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Listed | Not listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |