Commerce · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Google Analytics alternative with the most generous free tier
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…
Beam Analytics is a web analytics platform designed as an alternative to Google Analytics, particularly for indie hackers and small projects. It tracks standard metrics like page views and user behavior, includes… 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. Google Analytics alternative with the most generous free tier launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Beam Analytics▲245The best GA4 alternative with the most generous free tier
2023 · beamanalytics.io · its alternatives →
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Build your own Google Analytics alternative
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Open Analytics▲253Open Analytics is a privacy-first Google Analytics alternative: realtime visitors, funnels and revenue attribution from one lightweight, cookieless script. GDPR-friendly with no consent banner. Open source and self-hostable.
Aug 2026 · getopen.so · its alternatives →
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2018 · simpleanalytics.io · its alternatives →
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Plausible Analyticsfree tier▲500Open source, privacy friendly Google Analytics alternative
2020 · plausible.io · its alternatives →
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How I replaced Google tracking with simple log-based analytics on my personal website.
2019 · benhoyt.com · its alternatives →
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I have created an open-source alternative to Mixpanel and will explain a bit about why I decided to do this. Mixpanel is a GREAT tool and quite easy to understand (compared to GA4 and similar). I have used Mixpanel extensively for one of my React Native apps, but the last invoice was $300, which was way over my budget. I think I was paying for MTU (monthly tracked users), which was around 7000-10k users. However, a downside of Mixpanel is that it is purely a product analytics tool; you don't get any basic web analytics similar to what GA4 or Plausible offers. Therefore, I have combined the…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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HackerMetrics▲322Turn your Google Analytics into beautiful reports
2017 · hackermetrics.com · its alternatives →
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Swetrix▲254Swetrix is a privacy-first, cookieless Google Analytics alternative with real-time analytics, no sampling, and built-in performance & error monitoring.
Nov 2025 · swetrix.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · gaclient.com · its alternatives →
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Sleek Analytics▲279Sleek Analytics is a privacy-first Google Analytics alternative for the modern web. Real-time website analytics, cookieless tracking, and fast dashboards.
Apr 2026 · getsleek.io · its alternatives →
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After months of using Google Analytics I realized only about 50% of people accepted my cookie-popup. I had months of incorrect data for my website. I started looking for alternatives and eventually found Plausible, which is great (and open-source). Problem is, I didn't feel like paying 9$ a month to see the amount of visitors on a website i didn't even earn anything on, it was just a hobby project. Eventually I started making my own web analytics. Which actually isn't that hard. It took me about a month of working on my spare time every now and then. Being GDPR compliant basically means to…
2024 · its alternatives →
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66Analytics▲260Self-hosted analytics with session replays, heatmaps & more.
2020 · 66analytics.com · its alternatives →
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Open-source | Tag Management | Analytics | JS Error Tracking
2022 · scale8.com · its alternatives →
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It’s just the back end so it logs to MongoDB database so you can add any UI you want to it, feel free to contribute! (Suggestion’?)
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Beampipe▲10Privacy-focussed web analytics. Free for smaller sites.
2020 · beampipe.io · its alternatives →
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Edgemetry▲99I've been building a lot of landing pages and small sites lately, and i wanted analytics on them. Google analytics was the obvious first option, but i didn't want it for privacy reasons. Also, some privacy blockers block them. Plausible was the next best thing, but having a VPS for sites which that doesn't get too much traffic, felt too much. So i built Edgemetry. Its a worker, a bit of frontend, and a D1 database. Everything runs in Cloudflare's free tier. If you've got a site that doesn't get ton of traffic but you still wnat to see your visitors and their actions, give it a go.
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simple, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics
2020 · getairefs.com · its alternatives →
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Track website visitors with Counter, a privacy-friendly analytics tool. Get daily unique visitor counts, referrer information, and geographical locations. Our open source web analytics tool makes it easy to understand your web traffic. Get started today and pay what and when you want!
2023 · counter.dev · its alternatives →
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TLDR: I made a public only web analytics without signup. Stores views and visitors for 10 days before deleting data. Exactly 25 days ago today I posted here, proud of my new web analytics. The response was mixed and my post even got flagged (understandable). It was my first real launch and I actually made a sale just a day later of 49$(!). Back then my project was pay once, keep forever. Since then I have sadly went over to the dark side (subscription based). Anyways, I never went back to look at the post after the first two hours, turns out I got a lot of answers. Most answers was something…
2024 · indielytics.link · its alternatives →
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A dedicated B2B web analytics platform, finally
2022 · dreamdata.io · its alternatives →
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A simple snippet for tracking page views on your website without having to add external libraries. Also works for single page applications made with the likes of react and vue.js.
2018 · minimalanalytics.com · its alternatives →
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Analytics4now▲150Universal analytics reports with GA4 data from BigQuery
2023 · databloo.com · its alternatives →
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