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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.
Privacy-conscious website, product, and engineering teams that want analytics with performance, errors, replay, and optional self-hosting
Important considerations: Cloud has no permanent free plan and the trial requires a payment method. Replay, feature flags, and A/B testing require Plus; self-hosting shifts upgrades, storage, security, and backups to your team.
| Attribute | Pirsch Analytics | Swetrix |
|---|---|---|
| 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-focused, open-source web analytics platform with cookieless traffic and event reporting, funnels, performance and error monitoring, session analysis, replay, feature flags, and A/B testing in cloud or self-hosted editions. |
| 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 | Cloud has a 14-day trial; Standard starts at $19/month and Plus at $39/month for 100,000 monthly events; Enterprise is custom; self-hosted Community Edition is free |
| Deployment | Self-hosted and hosted options | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Privacy-conscious site owners, SaaS teams, and agencies that need compact traffic and conversion analytics without session replay | Privacy-conscious website, product, and engineering teams that want analytics with performance, errors, replay, and optional self-hosting |
| Operator | Emvi Software GmbH Independent private company | Swetrix Ltd Independent private company |
| Company base | Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany · European Union | Edinburgh, United Kingdom · United Kingdom |
| Organization scale | 1 employees · operator, as of 30 Dec 2025 | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. |
| Recent direction | marketing attribution Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution. | privacy-focused analytics Recent official evidence shows a focus on privacy-focused analytics. |
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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. | Cloud has no permanent free plan and the trial requires a payment method. Replay, feature flags, and A/B testing require Plus; self-hosting shifts upgrades, storage, security, and backups to your team. |
| Integrations | Google Search Console, WordPress, REST API, Webhooks, JavaScript and server SDKs | Google Analytics import, WordPress, Google Tag Manager, REST API |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09. |
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 | Pirsch Analytics | Swetrix |
|---|---|---|
| A/B testing | Listed | Listed |
| Ad-blocker resistant | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Not listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Enterprise | Listed | Listed |
| Error tracking | 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 |
| Revenue tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Listed |
| SEO research | Listed | Not listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Listed |