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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.
Privacy-conscious website, product, and engineering teams that want analytics with performance, errors, replay, and optional self-hosting
Important considerations: Cloud has no permanent free plan and the trial requires a payment method. Replay, feature flags, and A/B testing require Plus; self-hosting shifts upgrades, storage, security, and backups to your team.
| Attribute | GoatCounter | Swetrix |
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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. | A privacy-focused, open-source web analytics platform with cookieless traffic and event reporting, funnels, performance and error monitoring, session analysis, replay, feature flags, and A/B testing in cloud or self-hosted editions. |
| Pricing | Hosted service is donation-supported and free for reasonable public use; self-hosting is free and open source | Cloud has a 14-day trial; Standard starts at $19/month and Plus at $39/month for 100,000 monthly events; Enterprise is custom; self-hosted Community Edition is free |
| Deployment | Self-hosted and hosted options | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Website owners who want simple, privacy-focused analytics | Privacy-conscious website, product, and engineering teams that want analytics with performance, errors, replay, and optional self-hosting |
| Operator | Martin Tournoij Independent project | Swetrix Ltd Independent private company |
| Company base | Ireland · European Union | Edinburgh, United Kingdom · United Kingdom |
| 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. | privacy-focused analytics Recent official evidence shows a focus on privacy-focused 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 has no permanent free plan and the trial requires a payment method. Replay, feature flags, and A/B testing require Plus; self-hosting shifts upgrades, storage, security, and backups to your team. |
| Integrations | Ghost, Hugo | Google Analytics import, WordPress, Google Tag Manager, REST API |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-27. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09. |
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 | Swetrix |
|---|---|---|
| A/B testing | Not listed | Listed |
| Ad-blocker resistant | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Listed | Not listed |
| Cookieless | 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 |
| Integrations | Listed | Listed |
| Open source | Listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Not listed | Listed |