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24 alternatives to ClickNest a tiny self-hosted, AI native web analytics in Go

I've been building a bunch of random side projects, as I'm sure we all are. Most analytics tools were either too heavy or required juggling multiple free tiers across different subdomains. After looking what's out there I couldn't find a lightweight analytics platform that worked on the free tier of fly.io. It's a single Go binary using DuckDB for events and SQLite for metadata, so there are no external dependencies to manage. Drop a script tag on your site and it auto-captures pageviews and clicks. The part I'm most excited about: it uses an LLM to automatically name raw click events into…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.

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    See where users click across your website, 100% free

    Nov 2025 · crazyegg.com · its alternatives →

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    Real-time traffic reporting with proactive AI analysis

    Oct 2025 · crazyegg.com · its alternatives →

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    Track AI agent traffic from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini

    2025 · writesonic.com · its alternatives →

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    RankAI▲581

    Hey HN, we are building Rankai (https://www.rankai.ai), an AI agent that pushes SEO blogs and code fixes automatically to your site. My teammate previously scaled a product to 4M users via organic traffic and SEO. And we understood the importance of driving SEO traffic for small businesses. But after we talked to a lot of small businesses and startups, we realized that majority are not doing SEO at all. For them, learning and doing SEO weekly is too time-consuming, and no way they'd hire an agency for $4k+. So we tried to automate each step of SEO process in an agentic way using…

    Apr 2026 · rankai.ai · its alternatives →

  5. 5GA

    Hi HN, As an indie hacker, the new Google Analytics (GA4) coming motivated me to look for a straightforward alternative that would also be affordable. I had a few basic product requirements and didn’t want to spend too much to replace a free product. There are a lot of great Google Analytics alternatives out there, but the pricing didn’t seem right. As someone who likes to just build things, many of which aren’t businesses yet, it didn’t make sense to pay for options like Plausible and Fathom out of the gate. So I joined with a friend to build Beam Analytics. Beam gives you all the standard…

    2023 · beamanalytics.io · its alternatives →

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    Clickport▲131

    The modern, powerful Google Analytics alternative

    Apr 2026 · clickport.io · its alternatives →

  7. 7TI

    Hi HN! My name is Nick and this is my fun side project. Please lay it on me. HN can think of Tips.io as a cracked out Tailwind Playground that has page management and amazing AI integration. There are a few core ideas: 1) The HTML is the CMS There are no fields or restrictions. Just hover, click, and start tweaking any HTML. Also, certain elements you click will have special easy edit abilities: - auto creates an uploader, stock photo picker (or HTML) - auto creates an uploader, stock video picker (or HTML) - auto creates a big icon picker (or HTML) - auto creates a WYSIWYG Editor (or HTML)…

    2024 · tips.io · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosted, Node.js based analytics tool for those who care about privacy.

    2019 · ackee.electerious.com · its alternatives →

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    Build and ship analytics features for your users.

    2016 · keen.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, My name is JR and I had a need for a simple analytics solution that allowed me to store (timestamp, json) logs and run SQL over them. It was hard to find the right solution. Solutions like Mixpanel and Amplitude optimized for particular report types. Whereas solutions like Snowflake, BigQuery, etc. required a lot of setup. I built GraphJSON to fit in the middle. I strived for the ease of use of tools like Mixpanel and Amplitude, but wanted to ensure affordances were built to support use cases that big data warehouses enable. Under the hood, GraphJSON is powered by ClickHouse. This…

    2022 · graphjson.com · its alternatives →

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    Clickyfree tier, from $9.99/mo▲83

    Privacy-friendly website analytics

    2023 · clicky.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone! I wanted to share my analytics app with you. This project came from requirements to track certain very frequent events. I found that the cost to do it on a regular analytics product was much more than i was willing to pay. Secondly, I also wanted to use as few resources as possible. So I thought it may be a good idea to create something that may be useful for myself (and hopefully others). I have been able to track a great number of events with this using ~20 MB of storage and memory which is incredible. I have been really impressed by golang as a language and as an ecosystem…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Click-Through Rate Bot that boosts SERP rankings 🚀

    2023 · clickseo.io · its alternatives →

  14. 14AI
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    Deploy any JavaScript SPA, with automatic SEO indexing

    2019 · feathery.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey everyone, I wanted to see if I could build something like DataFa.st myself, so I made MochiAnalytics. I'm pretty happy with how it's turning out. It’s got all the bells and whistles a small team or solo founder would need to track campaigns and to see which channel is driving revenue. It’s a cheaper analytics tool for side projects, indie hackers, and small apps. I honestly wish I could make it free, but it still needs servers, a database, and a backend to keep event ingestion running 24/7, so there are real costs behind it. I’m still working on it and will keep adding more features…

    Jul 2026 · mochianalytics.com · its alternatives →

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    Keen IO▲26

    Custom analytics shouldn't be a pain in the backend.

    2014 · keen.io · its alternatives →

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    I've built a little prototype a long while back, to help me keep track of visitors on my website. I didn't like google analytics for obvious privacy reasons, and I didn't like the existing self-hosted options because of how complicated they are. I always wanted a simple, basic tool, similar to plausible, but even simpler. So a few weeks ago I rebuilt my prototype into a reusable tool. And I made it open source. I built a website, a documentation, and I'd be excited for someone else to try it too. Who knows, maybe if enough people like the idea, I might even make it into a SaaS to save…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey! I'm a solo developer having fun learning Go. I have a side hustle and wanted to implement currency localization. I could use existing IP databases, but hosting on serverless is slow. So I built my own. I was surprised how fun it can be to use Go, and it's fast. Thankfully, Go's speed makes up for my dodgy code. Anyway, I'd love to get some feedback on my website/API. After a few weeks of testing and losing money on ads, I'm confident it's very reliable. This isn't a promo. It's basicly free (30k lookups/month), so there's no need to pay. Any advice or tips on how to grow and…

    2024 · ipflare.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi there, The app basically offers a handy user interface on top of Google's PageSpeed Insights API. It allows you to analyze URLs in bulk and save the reports for later references. Also, you can regenerate the saved reports for fresh results. I called this functionality "Automatic Checklists." The app offers "Manual Checklists", too. Those are exhaustive checklists with items in the form of "tasks". The idea is for those tasks to model real-life JIRA tickets, which will be very useful for interns and junior developers. As a start, there are two manual checklists, "Front-End Checklist" and…

    2022 · buhalbu.com · its alternatives →

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    I've seen plenty of threads on HN about various alternatives to GA, but you can't try them all. So I tried 15 of the most popular, including: Matomo Cloud, Piwik Pro, Clicky, Cloudflare Web Analytics, Statcounter, Chartbeat, Fathom, Plausible Analytics, Visitor Analytics, Google Analytics 4, Mixpanel, Snowplow, Amplitude Analytics, Heap, and PostHog. Basically anything with >= .1% market penetration in the top 1M sites that had as self-service plan. There's no one-size-fits-all replacement for everyone, but there are a lot of good options if you're trying to get off of Google. Happy to…

    2022 · quantable.gumroad.com · its alternatives →

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    Self-hosted, privacy-first analytics in a single Go binary. No Docker, no SDKs, no bloat, just POST JSON and go. Pageviews, custom events, funnels, cohorts, path analysis, and a built-in MCP server for AI agents. - var-raphael/Gnat

    Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Analyse▲13

    Analytics, AI SEO content & a data copilot in one

    Jul 2026 · analyse.net · its alternatives →

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    Turn any SQL code block on your website into a runnable query editor with just a tag. Powered by DuckDB WASM running entirely in the browser – no backend needed. Perfect for documentation sites, tutorials, and blog posts. Features: • Full SQL analytics engine (DuckDB) running client-side • Syntax highlighting with live editing • One-click query execution (or Ctrl+Enter) • Works with any static site – just add the CDN script • Only 23KB minified, loads DuckDB on-demand • Dark/light theme support Try it: https://widget.pondpilot.io GitHub:…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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