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Compare analytics platforms: Cookieless
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10 cookieless analytics tools to compare
Selected for different traffic, conversion and operating needs; listed alphabetically, without a performance ranking. Open each listing for current prices, editions and sources.
Ackee
Simple self-hosted traffic and actions; operate Node.js and MongoDB yourself.
Cloudflare Web Analytics
Free traffic and performance totals; check its website limits and reporting depth.
Fathom Analytics
Managed traffic, events and goals; pageviews and events share the usage allowance.
Matomo
Broad analytics with optional cookieless configuration; disable cookies explicitly and assess visitor accuracy.
Plausible Analytics
Simple traffic and conversions; compare cloud tiers with the narrower Community Edition.
Simple Analytics
Hosted reporting with a restricted free hobby tier; check history, badge and extra-user costs.
Statable
Hosted traffic, funnels and errors; events count toward billing and free access has domain restrictions.
Swetrix
Traffic plus performance and errors; cloud replay and experiments need Plus.
Umami
MIT self-hosted traffic and events; cloud replay and heatmaps require Business or Enterprise.
UXWizz
Commercial self-hosted behavior analytics; include its license, server and operating costs.
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| Platform | Pricing | Deployment | Best for | Key tradeoff | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UXWizz | Perpetual licenses: Solo $299, Growth & Scale $749, Agency $2,490; one year of updates and support included | Self-hosted | Privacy-conscious teams that want a feature-rich self-hosted alternative to Hotjar and cloud analytics suites | You operate the PHP and MySQL installation, backups, updates, retention, and privacy configuration; hosted service is available only by request. | Details |
| Plausible Analytics | Cloud plans start at $9/month (Starter), $14/month (Growth), and $19/month (Business); Enterprise is custom and Community Edition is self-hosted | Self-hosted and hosted options | Publishers, SaaS teams, and privacy-first site owners who want simple reporting without consent-banner complexity | Starter is limited to one site; funnels, revenue tracking, custom properties, and API access require the Business tier. | Details |
| Matomo | Self-hosted open source; Matomo Cloud pricing is traffic-based via its public calculator, with enterprise support and add-ons priced separately | Self-hosted and hosted options | Businesses and organizations that want full data ownership and privacy compliance | The On-Premise core is free; premium plugins and operations add cost. Cookieless tracking requires explicit configuration and reduces returning-visitor accuracy. Disabling analytics cookies does not by itself settle consent or other privacy requirements. | Details |
| Fathom Analytics | Hosted plans start at $15/month for 100,000 monthly pageviews; no free plan; 7-day free trial | Vendor-hosted cloud | Individuals and businesses seeking simple, privacy-focused analytics | No free plan is offered after the 7-day trial; pricing scales with combined pageviews and events. | Details |
| WPLytic | Public plans: $29/month or $99/year for one WordPress site, including updates and support | Self-hosted | WordPress site-owners, agencies, small businesses seeking lightweight, privacy-compliant, self-hosted analytics. | WordPress-only deployment uses your site's server and database, so storage, performance, backups, and retention remain your responsibility. | Details |
| Simple Analytics | Free hobby plan with one month of history; paid self-serve pricing starts at €20/month for 100K monthly pageviews; Enterprise is custom | Vendor-hosted cloud | Website owners who prioritize privacy and simplicity | Free accounts retain only one month of history and require a public badge; paid price varies with data-point volume and extra users. | Details |
| GoatCounter | Hosted service is donation-supported and free for reasonable public use; self-hosting is free and open source | Self-hosted and hosted options | Website owners who want simple, privacy-focused analytics | Hosted use is donation-supported with a reasonable-use policy; high-volume or specialized deployments should be self-hosted. | Details |
| Umami | Free self-hosting. Cloud Hobby: $0 for 100K events/month and one website; Pro: $20/month with 1M events; Business: $200/month with 10M events; Enterprise: custom. Paid overages are metered. | Self-hosted and hosted options | Tech-savvy users and businesses prioritizing privacy and simplicity | Cloud counts pageviews, custom events and each stored event property toward usage. Session replay and heatmaps require Cloud Business or Enterprise; Business includes 5,000 replays, then $0.005 each. Cloud has features beyond self-hosting; check edition parity and operating costs. | Details |
| TWIPLA | 30-day unlimited trial, then Free Forever; Starter starts at $2.99/month or $2.39/month billed yearly, with higher self-serve and custom tiers | Vendor-hosted cloud | Businesses that prioritize data privacy and need advanced analytics tools | Free and low-cost tiers have small pageview, event, replay, heatmap, funnel, poll, and survey allowances. | Details |
| 66analytics | One-time licenses: Regular $49 for personal use and Extended $319 for operating a SaaS; source code, future updates, and six months of support are included | Self-hosted | Site owners, developers, and agencies that want inexpensive self-hosted analytics or a white-label analytics service | This is commercial source-available software, not an OSI open-source project. You operate PHP, MySQL, security, storage, backups, and privacy settings; SaaS resale requires the Extended license. | Details |
| Piwik PRO | Business starts at €36/month for up to 2M monthly actions and 20 domains; Enterprise starts at €366/month billed annually | Vendor-hosted cloud | Regulated businesses and public organizations that need privacy controls, consent management, and detailed first-party analytics | 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. | Details |
| Swetrix | Cloud Standard starts at €17/month and Plus at €35/month for 100,000 monthly events; annual billing saves 17%, and VAT may apply. A 14-day trial requires a payment method. Enterprise is custom; self-hosted Community Edition is free. | Self-hosted and hosted options | Privacy-conscious website, product, and engineering teams that want analytics with performance, errors, replay, and optional self-hosting | 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. | Details |
| Pirsch Analytics | 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 | Self-hosted and hosted options | Privacy-conscious site owners, SaaS teams, and agencies that need compact traffic and conversion analytics without session replay | 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. | Details |
| Rybbit | 7-day cloud trial; Standard starts at $13/month and Pro at $26/month billed annually for 100,000 monthly pageviews; Enterprise is custom; AGPL self-hosting is free | Self-hosted and hosted options | Privacy-conscious product, engineering, marketing, and agency teams that want deeper self-hostable analytics with replay and error context | Cloud session replay requires Pro and there is no permanent cloud free plan. Self-hosting is free but requires operating its database, upgrades, storage, privacy controls, and backups. | Details |
| Cloudflare Web Analytics | Free; non-proxied sites are limited to 10 tracked sites, while proxied Cloudflare sites have no Web Analytics site limit | Vendor-hosted cloud | Site owners who need free, low-complexity traffic and real-user performance metrics rather than event funnels, replay, or product analytics | It focuses on aggregate traffic and performance metrics. It does not replace event-based product analytics, conversion funnels, session replay, heatmaps, or user-level journeys, and a Cloudflare account is required. | Details |
| OpenPanel | 30-day cloud trial; cloud starts at $2.50/month for 5,000 events, $20/month for 100,000 events, and scales by event volume; AGPL self-hosting is free | Self-hosted and hosted options | Developers, SaaS teams, and privacy-conscious businesses that want one open-source system for website and product analytics | Cloud has no permanent general free plan after its 30-day trial. Self-hosting requires a VPS, Docker-based services, database operations, upgrades, email configuration, security, and backups. | Details |
| Usermaven | Business and Enterprise use quote-based pricing. Onboarding, white-label analytics and extra workspaces are optional add-ons; no current public entry price is listed. | Self-hosted and hosted options | Marketing, product, ecommerce, SaaS, and agency teams that want traffic, product usage, attribution, and client reporting in one service | The current pricing page offers demos rather than a published self-serve price. Private-cloud and on-premise deployment require Enterprise. Confirm usage, seats, workspaces, retention and add-on costs in the quote. | Details |
| Open Analytics | 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. | Self-hosted and hosted options | Privacy-focused product, marketing, and development teams that want open web analytics with revenue attribution and AI-agent access | 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. | Details |
| Ackee | Free MIT-licensed software; budget separately for hosting, backups and maintenance. No vendor-hosted subscription is listed. | Self-hosted | Developers and website owners who need simple traffic and event reporting on infrastructure they control. | Current releases require Node.js 24 or newer and MongoDB. Your team owns upgrades, availability and security; evaluate its aggregate reports against your funnel and replay requirements. | Details |
| Statable | From $9/month for 10,000 monthly events (pageviews and custom events combined), or $7/month billed annually. All features and unlimited websites; 30-day trial without a card. Permanent Free Access is restricted to .edu, .github.io and .gitlab.io sites with a public widget. | Vendor-hosted cloud | Website owners and small teams wanting hosted traffic and conversion reporting with API and automation access. | Vendor cloud only; analytics data is processed and stored in the Netherlands. Outbound clicks and downloads count as billable custom events. Daily site-specific identifiers limit continuity across days; review privacy notices and collection settings for your use case. | Details |
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