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Privacy-focused product, marketing, and development teams that want open web analytics with revenue attribution and AI-agent access
Important considerations: The hosted service has no free plan. Self-hosting needs Linux, Docker, four DNS records, about 4 GB of RAM, and 25 GB of disk; published images are amd64. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control traffic is intentionally not recorded.
Privacy-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.
| Attribute | Open Analytics | Pirsch Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | An open-source, privacy-first web analytics platform available as a hosted cloud service or self-hosted AGPL-3.0 software, with cookieless traffic reporting, realtime data, funnels, visitor journeys, retention, revenue attribution, Web Vitals, exports, AI analysis, and MCP access. | 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 | AGPL-3.0 self-hosting has no license fee. Hosted monthly plans: Starter $9 for 50,000 events and 1 site; Growth $19 for 500,000 events and 5 sites; Pro $49 for 5 million events and 10 sites. No hosted free plan. | 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 and hosted options | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Privacy-focused product, marketing, and development teams that want open web analytics with revenue attribution and AI-agent access | Privacy-conscious site owners, SaaS teams, and agencies that need compact traffic and conversion analytics without session replay |
| Operator | AGHAZADA LLC Independent private company | Emvi Software GmbH Independent private company |
| Company base | New Mexico, United States · United States | 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 | marketing attribution Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution. | marketing attribution Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution. |
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| Important considerations | The hosted service has no free plan. Self-hosting needs Linux, Docker, four DNS records, about 4 GB of RAM, and 25 GB of disk; published images are amd64. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control traffic is intentionally not recorded. | 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 | Stripe, Plausible, Fathom | Google Search Console, WordPress, REST API, Webhooks, JavaScript and server SDKs |
| 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 | Open Analytics | Pirsch Analytics |
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| A/B testing | Not listed | Listed |
| AI insights | Listed | Not listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Not listed |
| Behavior analytics | Listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Goals | Listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Listed | Listed |
| Open source | Listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Listed | Listed |
| Retention analytics | Listed | Not listed |
| Revenue tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Listed |
| SEO research | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Not listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Listed |