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Starting prices use different billing periods and usage units. Compare the same traffic, events, retention and seats.
Choose Offen Fair Web Analytics ifTeams that value visitor access to their own analytics data and accept measuring only people who opt in.
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.
Choose Pirsch Analytics ifPrivacy-conscious site owners, SaaS teams, and agencies that need compact traffic and conversion analytics without session replay
Important considerations: There is no permanent cloud free plan. Self-hosting is an Enterprise license rather than the standard open-source deployment path, and pageviews, events, and session extensions count toward usage.
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| Attribute | Offen Fair Web Analytics | Pirsch Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | 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. | A privacy-friendly web analytics service with cookieless visitor measurement, events, goals, session analysis, funnels, revenue metrics, Search Console data, A/B testing, APIs, and an Enterprise self-hosting option. |
| Pricing | Free Apache-2.0-licensed software; hosting and operational work are separate costs. | 30-day trial; Standard starts at $6/month and Plus at $12/month for 10,000 monthly pageviews; Enterprise and self-hosted deployment use custom pricing |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Teams that value visitor access to their own analytics data and accept measuring only people who opt in. | Privacy-conscious site owners, SaaS teams, and agencies that need compact traffic and conversion analytics without session replay |
| Operator | Offen project Independent project | Emvi Software GmbH Independent private company |
| Company base | Berlin, Germany · European Union | Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany · European Union |
| Organization scale | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. | 1 employees · operator, as of 30 Dec 2025 |
| Recent direction | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. | marketing attribution Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution. |
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| 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. | There is no permanent cloud free plan. Self-hosting is an Enterprise license rather than the standard open-source deployment path, and pageviews, events, and session extensions count toward usage. |
| Integrations | JavaScript, Docker | Google Search Console, WordPress, REST API, Webhooks, JavaScript and server SDKs |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30. | 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.
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| Attribute | Offen Fair Web Analytics | Pirsch Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| A/B testing | Not listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Not listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Not listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Not listed |
| Funnels | Not listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Goals | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Not listed | Listed |
| Open source | Listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Not listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Listed |
| SEO research | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Not listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Listed |