The open-source Simple Analytics alternative

Both are cookieless and consent-free. Open Analytics adds realtime journeys, revenue attribution and Core Web Vitals over the same lightweight script, and imports your Simple Analytics history on the way in.

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The short answer

Simple Analytics and Open Analytics share the same foundation: cookieless counting, no consent banner, and an AI you can ask questions in plain English.

Simple Analytics is the stricter minimalist (it refuses even IP addresses) and meters pageviews from $20 a month.

Open Analytics starts at $9 and goes deeper on one script: realtime journeys on a live globe, revenue attributed back to its source, and Core Web Vitals.

Open Analytics compared with Simple Analytics, across 12 capabilities and starting price.
Capability	Open	Simple Analytics
Open source / self-hostable	Included	Limited
Ask it in plain English	Included	Included
Realtime visitors	Included	Limited
Live globe	Included	Not available
Revenue attribution	Included	Not available
Every visitor's journey	Included	Not available
Identify your users	Included	Not available
Core Web Vitals	Included	Not available
Funnels	Included	Included
Bring your history with you	Included	Limited
Cookieless	Included	Included
No consent banner	Included	Included
Starting price	$9 · 50,000 events	$20 · 100,000 pageviews

IncludedLimited, or on a higher planNot available

Open source / self-hostable. The tracking scripts are MIT-licensed; the product itself is closed source and hosted-only.
Realtime visitors. Live visitor stats exist as embeddable charts; a realtime dashboard is not an advertised feature.
Every visitor's journey. By design: their session IDs reset on reload and are never linked across sessions.
Identify your users. By design: no visitor IDs at all.
Funnels. Multi-step funnels via their Goals feature.
Bring your history with you. Simple Analytics imports pageviews from Google Analytics 4; we import from Plausible, Fathom, Simple Analytics, DataFast, Seline and Rybbit.
Starting price. Simple Analytics starts at $20 per month at the low end of its pageview slider, plus $20 for each additional user; a free plan exists with 30 days of history. We start at $9 for 50,000 events, where an event is a pageview or anything you tag.

Simple Analytics’s figures checked against their own pages on August 7, 2026. Found something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it.

Bring your Simple Analytics history with you

Export your raw data points from Simple Analytics as a CSV and upload the file as it arrives. We parse it, show you what is inside (pageviews, referrers, countries and UTM parameters), and nothing reaches your dashboard until you publish the import.

Why teams choose Open Analytics. Not just a lighter dashboard.

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Vivid Crane/dashboard9s
Quiet Dormouse/integrations16s
Silent Ibis/23s
Misty Osprey/changelog30s
Swift Seal/blog/why-cookieless37s
Mellow Marten/docs/install44s
Wandering Badger/pricing51s
Realtime
Watch visitors arrive the moment they do, with nothing to refresh.
Live globe
Every visitor on a turning globe, pinned to the country they are in.
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No cookies
No cookies and no personal data, so there is no consent to ask for.
StripeRevenue attributionConnect
PolarOrders & refunds, attributedConnect
EmailWeekly digest & alertsConnect
Plausible3 years of historyImport
Integrations
Bring your history in, and send the numbers where your team already is.
Which page brings the most signups?
AI chat
Ask your analytics a question and get the number back, not a report.
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Revenue attribution
Follow the money back to the campaign, page and post that earned it.
CountriesGermany
Germany1,490
United States1,160
United Kingdom530
France410
Netherlands290
/1,490
/pricing402
/blog/why-cookieless318
/docs/install96
/changelog61
Filters
Click any country, page or source and the whole board narrows to it.
25%Saw pricing
Started trial
Paid
2% make it all the way through
Funnels
Save the steps that matter and watch where people fall out of them.
Open Analytics
Ask anything
MCP server
Connect ChatGPT or Claude to your numbers and ask directly on chat.

Questions people ask. Straight answers.

Yes. Export your raw data points from Simple Analytics as a CSV and upload it in Settings → Import & export; the import brings pageviews, referrers, countries and UTM parameters. You review what it contains before anything is published to your dashboard.

Partly. Its tracking scripts are MIT-licensed on GitHub, but the product itself is closed source and hosted-only; their own comparison pages point self-hosters elsewhere. Open Analytics is open source and self-hostable.

No. Neither Simple Analytics nor Open Analytics sets cookies or collects personal data, so neither requires a consent banner under GDPR or ePrivacy.

Simple Analytics starts at $20 per month at the low end of its pageview slider, with each additional user another $20; there is also a free plan limited to 30 days of history. Open Analytics starts at $9 per month for 50,000 events. Compare the meters: theirs counts pageviews, ours counts events.

It holds the strictest privacy line in the category: no cookies and no IP addresses at all, with Do Not Track respected by default. It is an EU company on EU-only infrastructure, running since 2018, and its free-forever plan and embeddable charts are genuinely generous. If minimal collection is your first requirement, Simple Analytics is the purist's pick.

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One script, no cookies, no consent banner, and your Simple Analytics history imported on the way in.

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