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| Platform | Pricing | Deployment | Best for | Key tradeoff | Details |
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| 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 |
| PostHog | Cloud product analytics includes 1M events/month free, then starts at $0.00005 per event; other products have separate usage-based free tiers | Self-hosted and hosted options | Developers and product teams who want analytics, replay, experimentation, and feature delivery in a single toolchain | Each PostHog product has separate usage metering. Self-hosting is open source but positioned for hobbyist use and requires substantial operational work. | 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 | On-Premise is free at the core but advanced plugins, support, hosting, maintenance, and infrastructure can add cost. | 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 |
| Open Web Analytics | Free, open source | Self-hosted | Tech-savvy users who want a free, self-hosted analytics solution | Community-maintained software requires self-hosting and technical upkeep; official product documentation and release communication are less active than major alternatives. | Details |
| Countly | Countly Lite is free and self-hosted; private-cloud Flex is free up to 500 MAU and paid Flex starts at $40/month; Enterprise is custom | Self-hosted and hosted options | Developers and product teams who need cross-platform analytics | Countly Lite is a narrower community edition; managed Flex add-ons and the full self-hosted Enterprise suite can materially change scope and cost. | 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 | Self-hosted open source; Umami Cloud plans are Hobby $0, Pro $20/month, Business $200/month, Enterprise custom | Self-hosted and hosted options | Tech-savvy users and businesses prioritizing privacy and simplicity | Cloud usage counts page hits, custom events, and stored event properties; self-hosting shifts upgrades, database operation, and backups to your team. | 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 |
| OpenReplay | Open-source self-hosting is free. Cloud Free: 1,000 sessions/month; Serverless: $5.95 per 1,000 sessions/month; Dedicated: from $199/month, billed hourly; Enterprise: custom. | Self-hosted and hosted options | Engineering and product teams that need self-hosted replay, debugging context, and product analytics | Cloud Free includes 2 users, 1 project, and 7-day retention. Paid Serverless includes unlimited users and projects with 30-day retention. Self-hosting requires your own infrastructure; Dedicated costs depend on the instance, region, and running time. | Details |
| LogRocket | Session-based pricing with a 14-day trial; the public calculator currently starts at $176/month for 25,000 captured sessions, while final cost depends on seats, retention, add-ons, and deployment | Self-hosted and hosted options | Product, engineering, support, and UX teams that need replay tied to technical diagnostics and product analytics | Cost scales with captured sessions and configuration. Self-hosting is an Enterprise option rather than a free community edition; Galileo AI and enterprise controls depend on packaging. | Details |
| Swetrix | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 14-day trial; Growth starts at $84/month for 250,000 events, 3 users, and 3 workspaces; Scale starts at $199/month; Enterprise is custom; white-label analytics starts at $49/month | Self-hosted and hosted options | Marketing, product, ecommerce, SaaS, and agency teams that want traffic, product usage, attribution, and client reporting in one service | There is no permanent free plan. Pricing starts at 250,000 monthly events and can increase automatically with usage; on-premises or private-cloud deployment is an Enterprise option, not a community edition. | Details |
| Glassbox | Custom pricing based on the selected package, web or app session volume, and retention period; packages target production operations, marketing and business, or product teams | Self-hosted and hosted options | Large, regulated, and high-traffic organizations that need broad digital journey evidence, replay, technical diagnostics, and flexible deployment | There is no public entry price or self-service free plan. Scope, replay sampling, session volume, retention, modules, and cloud, hybrid, or on-premises deployment are determined during sales packaging. | 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 |
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