Cloudflare Web Analytics alternatives

4 tools to consider instead of Cloudflare Web Analytics, shown against it.

Cloudflare Web Analytics Fathom Analytics Simple Analytics GoatCounter Plausible Analytics
Vendor Cloudflare Fathom Analytics (Conva Ventures Inc.) Simple Analytics B.V. Martin Tournoij (independent open-source project) Plausible Insights OÜ
Pricing model Free Subscription Free tier + paid plans Free Subscription
Free tier Yes No Yes Yes No
Deployment Cloud Cloud Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud, Self-hosted
Open source No No No Yes (EUPL-1.2) Yes (AGPL-3.0)
Best for Sites that want free, cookie-less traffic and page-performance visibility without adopting a full analytics platform Agencies and small businesses that want a no-maintenance, cookieless-compliant hosted analytics tool and are willing to pay a flat vendor subscription rather than self-host anything. EU-based teams that want a fully managed, cookieless analytics SaaS run alongside GA4 to recover consent-lost traffic, without any interest in self-hosting. Individual site owners, developers, and small teams wanting a free-to-self-host, single-maintainer tool without commercial pricing tiers. Website owners who want simple, privacy-first analytics without cookie banners.
Pricing

Web Analytics is a free feature available on all Cloudflare plans, including the free plan, with no separate paid tiers.

Free $0

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

Tiered monthly subscription billed on monthly pageview volume, with up to 50 sites included per tier; no free plan, 7-day free trial requires a card.

Starter $15/month
Growth $60/month
Business $200/month
Top tier $470/month
Custom Contact for details

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

Free plan for up to 5 sites with 30-day history; paid Self-Serve plan billed on a monthly-pageview slider; custom Enterprise plan.

Free $0
Self-Serve from $20/month
Enterprise Custom

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

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.

Plausible Cloud is a paid subscription priced by monthly pageviews, with three plans starting at the 10k-pageview tier and a 30-day free trial; the codebase can also be self-hosted at no cost.

Starter $9/month
Growth $14/month
Business $19/month

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 19, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features
  • JavaScript beacon that works on any site, on or off Cloudflare's proxy
  • Automatic setup for domains already proxied through Cloudflare
  • No client-side cookies or persistent visitor identifiers
  • Pageviews, visits, top pages, and referrer reporting
  • Core Web Vitals and page-load performance metrics
  • Country and device-level breakdowns
  • Filters and rules to scope tracking to specific paths or sites
  • Single-page real-time dashboard
  • Custom events with monetary/revenue values
  • UTM campaign tracking
  • Scheduled weekly/monthly email reports
  • Multi-site and all-sites dashboard views
  • Public dashboard sharing with optional password
  • GA4 historical data import
  • Bot/crawler filtering and Do Not Track honoring
  • Cookieless pageview, event and referrer tracking
  • No consent banner required (no personal data or IP storage)
  • Traffic-recovery positioning alongside GA4
  • Country-level location reporting without IP storage
  • API access and data exports to BI tools/warehouses
  • One-page dashboard summarizing traffic in seconds
  • GDPR, PECR, ePrivacy, CNIL and CCPA compliance claims
  • 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
  • Cookieless, no-consent-banner tracking script
  • Single-page simplified dashboard
  • Goal and custom event conversion tracking
  • UTM campaign and referrer reporting
  • Funnels and user journey reports
  • Google Search Console integration
  • Self-hostable open-source codebase

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