No. 3 of 30 · Privacy-first and cookieless
Pirsch Analytics
The cheapest serious cookieless tool here: fifty sites and unlimited seats at six dollars.
Unlimited team members on the $6 entry plan, where Plausible charges by the seat and Simple Analytics charges twenty dollars a head.
The verdict
Pirsch is the value pick of the cookieless field and it is not close. Six dollars a month buys 10,000 pageviews, fifty websites, unlimited team members and unlimited data retention, which is a combination nothing else here offers at any price. Twelve dollars adds unlimited websites, funnels, A/B testing, segmentation, custom domains and white labelling. For an agency putting a dashboard in front of clients under its own brand, that second tier is remarkable value.
It is German, hosted in Germany, and built by a small team with a developer-first posture: a proper REST API and SDKs are on the entry plan, not held back for an enterprise tier, and there is a genuinely useful built-in URL shortener for campaign tracking.
What you actually get
The depth is better than the price suggests. Funnels, A/B testing and segmentation on the $12 tier put it ahead of Fathom outright and level with Plausible's £19 Business tier for half the money. Session analysis, conversion goals, a Google Analytics importer and 100 per cent data ownership are all on the entry plan.
Two things hold it back. The first is behaviour tooling, which does not exist: no heatmaps, no scroll maps, no replay, the same gap as Plausible and Fathom. The second, and the reason conduct scores a 4, is the published limit behaviour. Pirsch stops collecting after five days over allowance, which does not merely lock you out of the dashboard but leaves a permanent hole in the record. A locked dashboard is an inconvenience you can wait out. Missing data is gone for good, and it is missing from precisely the period you will most want to look at later. That is the single most consequential difference between this and the tool at the top of the list, and at these prices it is worth the three dollars.
Best for
Agencies and developers who want white-labelled, API-accessible, cookieless analytics across many sites for the lowest credible price, and whose traffic is predictable enough that the five-day collection cutoff is theoretical.
Getting it running
One script tag of about a kilobyte, or server-side ingestion through the API and SDKs if you would rather not run client-side JavaScript at all. A Google Analytics importer is included on the entry plan.
What to watch out for
Collection stops five days over allowance, which creates a permanent gap rather than a temporary lockout. No heatmaps and no session replay. Custom events and 10 per cent of session-extension events count towards the pageview limit. It is a small team, so the support and roadmap risk is real.
Pricing and practicalities
$6 a month at 10,000 pageviews for Standard, $12 for Plus. Fifty websites and unlimited members on Standard, unlimited websites on Plus. Unlimited data retention on both, which nothing else here matches. Card, PayPal or SEPA. Prices read 2026-09-11.
Who should go elsewhere
Sites with spiky or unpredictable traffic, where a five-day collection cutoff is a permanent data loss and Absolutely Analytics keeps collecting through the spike. Also not for anyone who needs to see clicks and scrolls, where Microsoft Clarity is free and does exactly that.
How it compares
Against Fathom Analytics it is cheaper, deeper and equally generous on site count, and the argument for Fathom over it is longevity rather than features. Against Plausible Analytics it delivers funnels and segmentation for roughly a third of the price, and loses on track record and polish.
Head to head:
The ten measures
Each measure is scored 0 to 10 and weighted. The overall figure is the weighted mean, and it is relative to the other 29 tools on this list rather than absolute. How this works.
What this rests on
Pirsch's own pricing page and full feature comparison, read 2026-09-11; its documentation on API access, the URL shortener and event billing; its published limit policy, cross-checked against the competitor table Absolutely Analytics publishes.
Desk research against the vendor's published pricing and feature matrix. I have not run it on a live site, so the insight score reflects the documented reports rather than measured use.
This is a desk review. I have not been given access by the vendor, I have no commercial relationship with them, and everything above is my opinion rather than a statement of fact. If something here is wrong, tell me and I will correct it.