Open Analytics vs Statcounter 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

Privacy-first Self-hosted Open source Cookieless GDPR compliant E-commerce tracking Funnels Revenue tracking Audience insights Data ownership AI insights Retention analytics Web 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 Statcounter if

Small businesses and bloggers needing simple web analytics

Capabilities only listed for Statcounter

Free plan Session recordings Heatmaps

Important considerations: Free history is limited to 14 days; session replay is a separate allowance and heatmaps require Premium Plus.

Shared capabilities

Real-time data Event tracking Behavior analytics Goals Data export Integrations

Attribute	Open Analytics	Statcounter
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 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	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.	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 and hosted options	Vendor-hosted cloud
Best for	Privacy-focused product, marketing, and development teams that want open web analytics with revenue attribution and AI-agent access	Small businesses and bloggers needing simple web analytics
Operator	AGHAZADA LLC Independent private company	StatCounter Independent private company
Company base	New Mexico, United States · United States	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	marketing attribution Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution.	operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability.
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	Real-time visitor feeds Traffic trend charts Visitor paths Landing-page analysis Conversion tracking Paid-traffic analysis Session replay Heatmaps on Premium Plus
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 history is limited to 14 days; session replay is a separate allowance and heatmaps require Premium Plus.
Integrations	Stripe, Plausible, Fathom	WordPress, Shopify
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.

Attribute	Open Analytics	Statcounter
AI insights	Listed	Not listed
Audience insights	Listed	Not listed
Behavior analytics	Listed	Listed
Cookieless	Listed	Not listed
Data export	Listed	Listed
Data ownership	Listed	Not listed
E-commerce tracking	Listed	Not listed
Event tracking	Listed	Listed
Free plan	Not listed	Listed
Funnels	Listed	Not listed
GDPR compliant	Listed	Not listed
Goals	Listed	Listed
Heatmaps	Not listed	Listed
Integrations	Listed	Listed
Open source	Listed	Not listed
Privacy-first	Listed	Not listed
Real-time data	Listed	Listed
Retention analytics	Listed	Not listed
Revenue tracking	Listed	Not listed
Self-hosted	Listed	Not listed
Session recordings	Not listed	Listed
Web analytics	Listed	Not listed

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