Compare pricing, deployment, product fit, integrations, and capabilities side by side.
Catalog capabilities may require a paid plan, add-on or hosted edition. “Not listed” means unverified here, not unavailable. Confirm the exact edition, usage limits and privacy settings.
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 Statcounter ifSmall businesses and bloggers needing simple web analytics
Important considerations: Free history is limited to 14 days; session replay is a separate allowance and heatmaps require Premium Plus.
Swipe or use arrow keys to view all columns.
| Attribute | Offen Fair Web Analytics | Statcounter |
|---|---|---|
| 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 hosted web analytics service centered on real-time visitor feeds, traffic trends, landing-page and paid-traffic analysis, conversions, session replay, and higher-tier heatmaps. |
| Pricing | Free Apache-2.0-licensed software; hosting and operational work are separate costs. | Basic is free for 5,000 sessions/month with 14-day retention; Premium starts at €9/month and Premium Plus at €19/month for 20,000 sessions |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for | Teams that value visitor access to their own analytics data and accept measuring only people who opt in. | Small businesses and bloggers needing simple web analytics |
| Operator | Offen project Independent project | StatCounter Independent private company |
| Company base | Berlin, Germany · European Union | Dublin, Ireland · European Union |
| Organization scale | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. |
| Recent direction | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. |
| Key features |
|
|
| 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. | Free history is limited to 14 days; session replay is a separate allowance and heatmaps require Premium Plus. |
| Integrations | JavaScript, Docker | WordPress, Shopify |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. |
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.
Swipe or use arrow keys to view all columns.
| Attribute | Offen Fair Web Analytics | Statcounter |
|---|---|---|
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Not listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Listed | Not listed |
| Event tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Goals | Not listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Not listed | Listed |
| Open source | Listed | Not listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Not listed |
| Real-time data | Not listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Not listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Not listed |