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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.
Regulated businesses and public organizations that need privacy controls, consent management, and detailed first-party analytics
Important considerations: Piwik PRO is vendor-hosted in public or private cloud rather than a do-it-yourself self-hosted product. Session logs and heatmaps are available, but it is not a session-replay platform.
| Attribute | Pirsch Analytics | Piwik PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | 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. | A privacy-first analytics and data activation suite for regulated organizations, combining web and mobile analytics, tag management, consent management, customer journeys, ecommerce reporting, and real-time audience activation. |
| Pricing | 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 | Business starts at €36/month for up to 2M monthly actions and 20 domains; Enterprise starts at €366/month billed annually |
| Deployment | Self-hosted and hosted options | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for | Privacy-conscious site owners, SaaS teams, and agencies that need compact traffic and conversion analytics without session replay | Regulated businesses and public organizations that need privacy controls, consent management, and detailed first-party analytics |
| Operator | Emvi Software GmbH Independent private company | Piwik PRO SA Subsidiary of Cookie Information Group |
| Company base | Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany · European Union | Wrocław, Poland · European Union |
| Organization scale | 1 employees · operator, as of 30 Dec 2025 | about 200 team members · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 |
| Recent direction | marketing attribution Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution. | platform integration Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration. |
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| 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. | Piwik PRO is vendor-hosted in public or private cloud rather than a do-it-yourself self-hosted product. Session logs and heatmaps are available, but it is not a session-replay platform. |
| Integrations | Google Search Console, WordPress, REST API, Webhooks, JavaScript and server SDKs | Google Ads, Google Search Console, Looker Studio, Power BI, Consent platforms |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09. | 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.
| Attribute | Pirsch Analytics | Piwik PRO |
|---|---|---|
| A/B testing | Listed | Not listed |
| App analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Not listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Listed |
| Cross-device tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Enterprise | Listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Goals | Listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Listed | Listed |
| Open source | Listed | Not listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Listed | Listed |
| Retention analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Not listed |
| SEO research | Listed | Not listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Not listed |