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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.
Marketing, product, ecommerce, SaaS, and agency teams that want traffic, product usage, attribution, and client reporting in one service
Important considerations: There is no permanent free plan. Pricing starts at 250,000 monthly events and can increase automatically with usage; on-premises or private-cloud deployment is an Enterprise option, not a community edition.
| Attribute | GoatCounter | Usermaven |
|---|---|---|
| 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 hosted web, product, ecommerce, and marketing attribution platform with automatic event capture, funnels, customer journeys, user and account profiles, retention, revenue attribution, AI reporting, and agency white-label options. |
| Pricing | Hosted service is donation-supported and free for reasonable public use; self-hosting is free and open source | 14-day trial; Growth starts at $84/month for 250,000 events, 3 users, and 3 workspaces; Scale starts at $199/month; Enterprise is custom; white-label analytics starts at $49/month |
| Deployment | Self-hosted and hosted options | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Website owners who want simple, privacy-focused analytics | Marketing, product, ecommerce, SaaS, and agency teams that want traffic, product usage, attribution, and client reporting in one service |
| Operator | Martin Tournoij Independent project | Usermaven Inc. Independent private company |
| Company base | Ireland · European Union | Lewes, 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. | 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. | There is no permanent free plan. Pricing starts at 250,000 monthly events and can increase automatically with usage; on-premises or private-cloud deployment is an Enterprise option, not a community edition. |
| Integrations | Ghost, Hugo | Google Search Console, Google Ads, Meta Ads, HubSpot, Shopify, WordPress, Wix, BigQuery |
| 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 | Usermaven |
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| Ad-blocker resistant | Not listed | Listed |
| AI insights | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Cohort analysis | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | 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 |
| Enterprise | 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 | 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 | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Not listed | Listed |