vs Umami
Umami if you want the repo. Us if you want Frankfurt.
Umami is a clean, cookieless, open-source analytics app you can docker-compose on a Friday. Cookie Free Analytics is for people who wanted that dashboard and did not want the box.
Self-host
- Cookie Free Analytics
- No
- Umami
- Yes, MIT, free
Hosted price
- Cookie Free Analytics
- from €4
- Umami
- Cloud hobby then paid
Cookies
- Cookie Free Analytics
- No
- Umami
- No
Open source
- Cookie Free Analytics
- No
- Umami
- Yes
Hosted region
- Cookie Free Analytics
- Frankfurt + Ireland
- Umami
- Depends on Cloud / your VPS
Script
- Cookie Free Analytics
- Under 1 KB gzipped
- Umami
- Small
What they actually are
Self-host Umami is free (MIT). Umami Cloud exists for people who like the UI and not the pager. It is a real peer: pageviews, referrers, events, a small script. No cookie banner required when you run it that way.
When to pick them
You enjoy operating Node and Postgres, you want the code, or Cloud’s free tier covers you. That is a good life. We will not talk you out of it.
When to pick us
You want the same kind of dashboard without a server, with usage pricing that stays cheap at 100k, and with pageviews that live in the EU on our invoice, not yours.
The honest bit
They have the GitHub repo. We have a hosted product and a price formula. If a CVE in a tracker you host would keep you up, Umami Cloud or us — not a VPS you forgot.
Questions
- Is Cookie Free Analytics an Umami alternative?
- Yes if you wanted Umami’s simplicity without self-hosting. No if the requirement is MIT-licensed code on your metal.
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