Clicky alternatives

4 tools to consider instead of Clicky, shown against it.

Clicky Statcounter GoSquared Chartbeat GoatCounter
Vendor Roxr Software StatCounter GoSquared Ltd Chartbeat, Inc. Martin Tournoij (independent open-source project)
Pricing model Free tier + paid plans Free tier + paid plans Subscription Quote only Free
Free tier Yes Yes No No Yes
Deployment Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted
Open source No No No No Yes (EUPL-1.2)
Best for Small to mid-size sites wanting real-time analytics plus built-in heatmaps and uptime alerts in one subscription Small business sites wanting a simple installable tracker, or researchers/marketers citing public browser and OS market-share data Small marketing or support teams that want a live, glanceable view of site traffic without building custom reports Newsroom and publisher editorial teams making real-time decisions about what content to promote or update Individual site owners, developers, and small teams wanting a free-to-self-host, single-maintainer tool without commercial pricing tiers.
Pricing

Free plan covers 1 site at up to 3,000 daily page views; paid plans add sites, page-view volume, heatmaps, and uptime monitoring.

Free $0
Pro $9.99/month (or $79.99/year)
Pro Plus $14.99/month (or $119.99/year)
Pro Platinum $19.99/month (or $159.99/year)
Custom Varies

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Free Basic plan covers 5,000 sessions/month; paid Premium and Premium Plus plans scale by session volume from $9 to $499/month, with a 30-day free trial of paid features.

Basic (Free Forever) $0/month
Premium $9 to $399/month (billed monthly); $97 to $4,309/year (annual, ~10% savings)
Premium Plus $19 to $499/month (billed monthly); $205 to $5,389/year (annual, ~10% savings)

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Tiered monthly subscriptions by pageview allowance, with a 7-day free trial and no permanent free tier.

Starter £9/month
Standard £24/month
Pro £49/month
Scale £99/month

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Four tiers (Essentials, Plus, Premium, Enterprise) scaled by website and app pageviews; no public dollar figures, sales-quote only.

Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted.

The hosted goatcounter.com service is free for reasonable public/personal or small-to-medium business use (no published price tiers or hard limits), sustained by voluntary GitHub Sponsors donations; self-hosting is free and unrestricted.

Hosted (goatcounter.com) Free
Self-hosted Free (open source)

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features
  • Real-time visitor and pageview logs down to the individual visitor
  • Heatmaps at both page and visitor level (Pro Plus and above)
  • Uptime monitoring from multiple global locations
  • Outbound link and file download tracking
  • Goals, revenue, and campaign tracking
  • Split testing
  • Custom event and video/audio interaction tracking
  • Aggressive bot filtering and reverse-proxy tracking for adblock users
  • Real-time traffic dashboard and live visitor feed
  • Session replay recordings (available as paid add-on packs)
  • Heatmaps (Premium Plus)
  • Individual visitor path and journey tracking
  • Visitor labels and custom alerts
  • Conversion and paid-traffic (UTM/Google Ads) tracking
  • CSV export and scheduled email reports
  • Separate, free, publicly published global browser/OS/search-engine market-share statistics (gs.statcounter.com)
  • Real-time visitor and pageview dashboard
  • Engaged time per visitor and engagement-based bounce rate
  • Historical reporting by day, week, month, and year
  • Automated email reports on a daily/weekly/monthly schedule
  • UTM-based campaign and event tracking
  • Traffic spike/drop alerts and timeline annotations
  • Real-time analytics API for custom integrations
  • CSV export and unlimited data retention
  • Real-time concurrent-visitor and pageview dashboard
  • 13-month historical dashboard for engaged-time trends
  • Scroll-depth and top-performing-story tracking (Heads Up Display)
  • Headline and image A/B testing for content
  • Competitive benchmarking against other publishers via Chartbeat Cohorts
  • Real-time traffic spike/dip alerts
  • CSV reporting and video-content dashboard
  • Dedicated account management on all tiers
  • Cookieless unique-visitor identification with no persistent personal data storage
  • No GDPR consent notice required per vendor
  • Lightweight script (~3.5KB) plus JavaScript-free tracking-pixel option
  • Server-side/middleware integration and log-file import as alternatives to the JS snippet
  • Browser, location, screen-size, referrer and campaign tracking
  • Full data export and account cancellation at any time
  • High-priority accessibility support (screen readers)
  • Fully self-hostable, complete open-source codebase on GitHub

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