| Overview |
Google's mainstream analytics platform for web and app measurement, built around GA4 events, attribution, advertising integrations, and BigQuery-connected reporting for larger deployments. | A hosted cookieless web analytics service with real-time traffic, custom events, goals, funnels, saved segments and error tracking. Its API, CLI and MCP integrations expose reports to other tools. |
| Pricing |
GA4 standard is free; Google Analytics 360 is enterprise-priced via Google sales | From $9/month for 10,000 monthly events (pageviews and custom events combined), or $7/month billed annually. All features and unlimited websites; 30-day trial without a card. Permanent Free Access is restricted to .edu, .github.io and .gitlab.io sites with a public widget. |
| Deployment |
Vendor-hosted cloud | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for |
All website owners, from small businesses to enterprises | Website owners and small teams wanting hosted traffic and conversion reporting with API and automation access. |
| Operator |
Google LLC Subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. | Key Arg B.V. Independent private company |
| Company base |
Mountain View, United States · United States | Monster, Netherlands · European Union |
| Organization scale |
190,820 employees · parent company, as of 31 Dec 2025 | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. |
| Recent direction |
marketing attribution Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution. | platform integration Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration. |
| Key features |
- Web and app event analytics
- Real-time reports
- E-commerce measurement
- Advertising attribution
- Audience building
- Explorations and funnels
- BigQuery export
- Google Ads integration
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- Cookieless traffic and real-time reports
- Custom events, goals and funnels
- Saved segments and error tracking
- Stats API, CLI and MCP
- WordPress and n8n integrations
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| Important considerations |
GA4 has a steep reporting and consent-configuration learning curve; Analytics 360 pricing is not public and standard properties have lower limits. | Vendor cloud only; analytics data is processed and stored in the Netherlands. Outbound clicks and downloads count as billable custom events. Daily site-specific identifiers limit continuity across days; review privacy notices and collection settings for your use case. |
| Integrations |
Google Ads, BigQuery, Shopify | WordPress, n8n, MCP, CLI, Google Analytics, Google Search Console |
| Fact check |
We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. |
We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30. |