Free tier: Measuring without surveilling

Analytics, and the consent tooling that sits alongside it. The first group here is cookieless and privacy-preserving by design, several are open source and self-hostable, and they are listed first deliberately: for most small sites they answer the same questions as the advertising-funded alternatives without exporting visitor data.

Part of the Free Tier Services Directory.

Privacy-preserving web analytics

Aptabase — Open-source, privacy-friendly analytics for mobile and desktop applications, with SDKs for Swift, Kotlin and others.
Beampipe.io — Simple, privacy-focused web analytics. Free for five domains and 10,000 page views a month.
counter.dev — Deliberately minimal web analytics, which is what keeps it privacy-friendly. Free, or pay what you like.
getinsights.io — Cookie-free analytics, free up to 3,000 events a month.
GoatCounter — Open-source web analytics, offered as a hosted service and free for non-commercial sites.
HitKeep — Open-source web and product analytics with a free cloud plan for three sites.
Rybbit — Open-source, cookieless alternative to Google Analytics. Free plan for small sites.
Seline — Cookieless, lightweight site and product analytics.
TrackWith Dicloud — Lightweight privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics, with unlimited page views on the free tier.
Umami — Open-source, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics. Widely self-hosted; a hosted tier is also offered.

Product and site analytics

amplitude.com — Product analytics. One million events a month across two applications.
AppFit — Combined analytics and product management tooling.
Clicky — Site analytics with real-time views. Free for one site and 3,000 views.
DocBeacon — Document sharing with tracking and engagement reporting.
Gizmo Analytics — Analytics aimed at people running many small sites at once.
Google Analytics — The dominant web analytics product, free at the scale most sites operate at. Note that its model is advertising, and that using it places visitor data with Google — the reason most of the alternatives above exist.
heap.io — Captures every user interaction automatically rather than requiring events to be defined in advance. Free up to 10,000 sessions a month.
Hotjar — Heatmaps, session recordings and surveys. 2,000 page views a day.
LogSpot — Unified web and product analytics with embeddable widgets.
Mixpanel — Product analytics with unlimited history and EU or US data residency. 100,000 tracked users a month.
Moesif — Analytics for REST and GraphQL APIs rather than for pages. Free up to 500,000 calls a month.
PostHog — Full product analytics suite, also offering session recording and feature flags. One million events a month.
Repohistory — Keeps GitHub repository traffic history beyond the fortnight GitHub itself retains.
StatCounter — Long-established visitor analytics. Free plan covers the 500 most recent visitors.
Statsig — Analytics, feature flags and A/B testing in one platform, with a substantial free tier.
TraceLog — Natural-language querying over e-commerce analytics.
usabilityhub.com — Tests designs and mockups with real people and tracks visitors. Free for one user.

Pipelines, warehouses and reporting

Avo — Keeps a single source of truth for what your analytics actually track, and generates type-safe tracking code from it.
Census — Reverse ETL: pushes data from your warehouse back into the tools your team uses. Ten fields free.
Dwh.dev — Observability for a Snowflake data warehouse. Free for personal use.
Expensify — Expense reporting with a free personal approval workflow.
Hightouch — Reverse ETL for syncing customer data from a warehouse into other services.
Row Zero — Spreadsheet that connects directly to databases, S3 and APIs, for datasets too large for conventional ones.
Trackingplan — Detects when analytics and marketing tags break or drift, and keeps a live record of what is being tracked.

Consent and privacy compliance

Bearer — Privacy-by-design audits and workflows for meeting GDPR obligations. Free tier limited to small teams on the hosted version.
Concord — Consent management, data subject access request handling and data mapping. Core consent features free, with a fuller plan offered free to verified open-source projects.
Cookiefirst — Cookie banners, auditing and multi-language consent management. Free tier covers one banner and a one-off scan.
Iubenda — Generates privacy and cookie policies and manages consent. Free tier covers a limited policy and banner.
Ketch — Consent management and privacy framework. Most features free below a visitor threshold.

Currency

Compiled September 2026. Free tiers change frequently and nothing here has been independently verified — check the provider before relying on any allowance described above. Entries cover services with a standing free tier, not free trials.

Free tier: Measuring without surveilling

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