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5 tools that solve a similar problem. Compare what each costs and what it covers.
Open source site analytics with no cookie banner
Umami is open source with no cookie banner, from $20 with a free tier, and can run on your own server.
Web analytics you can host yourself and keep
Matomo can be self hosted so the data never leaves, from $26 with a free tier, at the cost of much more to read.
A visitor log with a lasting free tier
Statcounter keeps a visitor log with a lasting free tier, paid from $18.
Product analytics billed by the event
PostHog bills by the event with a free tier, for behaviour rather than page counts.
Privacy-first analytics without cookies
Plausible is the other privacy-first, cookie free option at $9, with a similar single page of numbers.