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Open Analytics vs Simple Analytics comparison

Compare pricing, deployment, product fit, integrations, and capabilities side by side.

Which platform fits your needs?

Choose Open Analytics if

Privacy-focused product, marketing, and development teams that want open web analytics with revenue attribution and AI-agent access

Capabilities only listed for Open Analytics

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.

Choose Simple Analytics if

Website owners who prioritize privacy and simplicity

Capabilities only listed for Simple Analytics

Important considerations: Free accounts retain only one month of history and require a public badge; paid price varies with data-point volume and extra users.

Attribute Open Analytics Simple 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-first analytics platform built around straightforward traffic reporting, lightweight event tracking, and GDPR-friendly measurement with minimal setup.
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.Free hobby plan with one month of history; paid self-serve pricing starts at €20/month for 100K monthly pageviews; Enterprise is custom
Deployment Self-hosted and hosted optionsVendor-hosted cloud
Best for Privacy-focused product, marketing, and development teams that want open web analytics with revenue attribution and AI-agent accessWebsite owners who prioritize privacy and simplicity
Operator AGHAZADA LLC
Independent private company
Simple Analytics B.V.
Independent private company
Company base New Mexico, United States · United StatesAmsterdam, Netherlands · European Union
Organization scale No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed.3 team members · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026
Recent direction marketing attribution
Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution.
AI-assisted analysis
Recent official evidence shows a focus on AI-assisted analysis.
Key features
  • Cookieless web analytics
  • Hosted cloud or AGPL self-hosting
  • Realtime dashboard and live globe
  • Custom events and funnels
  • Visitor journeys and retention
  • Stripe revenue attribution
  • Campaign and UTM reporting
  • Core Web Vitals
  • Public dashboards and embeds
  • Data import and export
  • AI assistant, MCP server, and CLI
  • Cookieless traffic dashboard
  • Real-time reporting
  • Events and goals
  • Ecommerce tracking
  • AI-assisted analysis
  • Automated reports
  • Raw data export
  • Lightweight tracking script
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.Free accounts retain only one month of history and require a public badge; paid price varies with data-point volume and extra users.
Integrations Stripe, Plausible, FathomGhost, WordPress
Fact check We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-27. We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08.

Capability matrix

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.

AttributeOpen AnalyticsSimple Analytics
AI insights Listed Listed
Audience insights Listed Listed
Behavior analytics Listed Not listed
CCPA compliant Not listed Listed
Cookieless Listed Listed
Data export Listed Listed
Data ownership Listed Not listed
E-commerce tracking Listed Listed
Event tracking Listed Listed
Free plan Not listed Listed
Funnels Listed Listed
GDPR compliant Listed Listed
Goals Listed Listed
Integrations Listed Not listed
Open source Listed Not listed
Privacy-first Listed Listed
Real-time data Listed Listed
Retention analytics Listed Not listed
Revenue tracking Listed Not listed
Self-hosted Listed Not listed
User segments Not listed Listed
Web analytics Listed Not listed
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