GeckoStats vs Simple Analytics
Simple Analytics is the most privacy-forward product in this comparison and it has a free plan that is not a trial. What it does not do is tell you which visit turned into money.
Seven days free, no card. Checked against their own pages in November 2026.
Which one should you actually use?
Simple Analytics and GeckoStats are both cookieless and both need no consent banner, and both are deliberately one page rather than a reporting suite.
Simple Analytics is the stricter of the two on privacy and the cheaper at the bottom: no personal data at all, hosted in the Netherlands, and a free plan that is not a trial.
GeckoStats is built for a site that sells: a payment joined to the visit that produced it, per-visitor journeys, funnels, and 26 tools your AI agent can call.
| GeckoStats | Simple Analytics | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue | ||
| Revenue attribution | From the provider’s webhook The payment arrives from your payment provider carrying the visitor id, so the amount is theirs rather than your front end’s, a refund takes the sale back off the chart, and every source, campaign, page and query is ranked by the money instead of the traffic. | Not listed Not on their pricing or documentation pages when we checked. |
| Every visitor’s journey | Open any payment A session-by-session trail for one anonymous visitor, from an identity that rotates daily: the source that first brought them, every page and click, the days between visits, and the payment at the end. | No By design: no personal data is collected at all, so a per-visitor view is not compatible with the product. |
| Funnels and goals | On every plan Button clicks and signups as goals, then step-by-step drop-off between them, with the revenue that came out of the last step. | Not listed Not on their pricing or documentation pages when we checked. |
| Subscriptions and MRR | Yes MRR, churn and lifetime value broken down by source: which channel brings customers who stay, rather than which brings the most first payments. | Not listed Not on their pricing or documentation pages when we checked. |
| Visitors | ||
| Campaigns, with revenue | Yes A tagged link per tweet, article or newsletter issue. It appears by name with the visitors and the money it brought, including people who came back and bought a fortnight later. | Yes UTM campaigns, with visitors rather than revenue against them. |
| Live view | A globe, and a feed Everyone on the site right now on a rotating globe, with pages, goals and payments landing in a feed beside it. | Realtime Live visitor counts. |
| Returning visitors | Yes New against returning for the period, week-by-week retention, and what the people who came back were worth. | Not listed Not on their pricing or documentation pages when we checked. |
| Content and search | ||
| Search Console, with revenue | Built in Connect it once and every query, page and country you rank for arrives with the money its page earned beside it, so the list is ordered by what it is worth rather than by clicks. | Not listed Not on their pricing or documentation pages when we checked. |
| AI crawlers and AI referrals | Both halves Which assistants read your pages, named, and what each one sent back: the visitors arriving from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini, with their revenue and conversion rate against everyone else’s. | Not listed Not on their pricing or documentation pages when we checked. |
| Core Web Vitals | From real visits LCP and INP measured on your actual visitors, shown beside the revenue of the page, so a slow page that earns is the one you fix first. | Not listed Not on their pricing or documentation pages when we checked. |
| For developers | ||
| Release markers | Yes One curl at the end of your deploy puts a marker on the chart, so a drop can be read against what you shipped rather than guessed at. | Not listed Not on their pricing or documentation pages when we checked. |
| MCP server for AI agents | 26 tools Your agent calls the same queries the dashboard runs, with a key issued per website and revocable. Twenty-four of the twenty-six only read; the two that write create a funnel and re-run attribution. | No No MCP server; the API is on the Enterprise tier. |
| REST API and server events | On every plan Read every figure the dashboard shows, and post payments, goals, deploys and crawler hits from your own backend with the same key. | Enterprise tier API access is listed on the Enterprise plan. |
| Alerts | Yes Tracking stopped, revenue down, organic clicks down, a page deindexed, a query dropped five places. Emailed when it happens rather than found a week later. | Not listed Not on their pricing or documentation pages when we checked. |
| Privacy | ||
| Cookies and consent banner | None by default A visitor is a salted hash that rotates daily and the IP is never stored, so there is nothing on the device to consent to anywhere in the EU. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track are honoured in the script and again in the collector. | None No cookies, no consent banners, and no personal data collected at all. The strictest position in this comparison. |
| Open source | No A hosted product. The tracker is the only part that runs on your side, and there is no self-hosted edition. | Not listed Not on their pricing or documentation pages when we checked. |
| Where it runs | Cloudflare A United States company, on its global network. Data at rest is encrypted; no IP addresses are stored at all. | Netherlands EU-hosted, on European infrastructure. |
| Data retention | As long as the site exists No ceiling and no tier. Deleting a website deletes its events, visitors and payments in the same minute, and deleting the account does that for every website it owns. | Not listed Not on their pricing or documentation pages when we checked. |
| Price | ||
| Entry price, and the meter | From $9 a month Counted in events, which is pageviews plus anything you tag yourself: 25,000 for $9, 100,000 for $19 on Starter. Seven days free, no card, every feature on. | $0, then $20 a month Self-serve is $20 a month with one user, and every additional user is another $20. The meter is pageviews. |
| Websites and seats | 1 on Starter, 30 on Growth Seats match the websites: just you on Starter, up to thirty on Growth. | 5 on the free plan One user on the free plan and on self-serve; extra users are billed each. |
| Free tier | Seven-day trial No card, and every feature is on during it. | A real free plan Unlimited pageviews under fair use, 30 days of history, five websites, with a badge on hobby sites. Not a trial. |
Where something is marked “not listed”, it means we could not find it on their pages, not that it does not exist. Simple Analytics’s figures were read off their own pricing and documentation pages in November 2026. Found something out of date? Tell us and we will correct it.
The screens you would be moving to
Not a description of them. The same tiles the front page shows, and the same live demo behind them.
Every customer’s full journey
Who paid, where they came from, how long it took. Open anyone and read every page and click from first visit to payment.
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- 7:33 PMcheckout_click on /pricing
- 7:35 PMPaid $49
- 9:02 AM/blog/ship-faster
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- 2:15 PM/pricing
Traffic and revenue in one view
Blue shows visitors and orange shows revenue. See how they move together, then drill into the channels and sources behind each spike.
Point your AI agent at it
An MCP server with 26 tools over your own numbers, so you ask in plain English instead of reading a dashboard. Twenty-four of them only read, the key is issued per website, and you can revoke it whenever you like.
Claude Code~/sites/nimbusWhat actually differs
01Revenue attribution
Simple Analytics does not list revenue attribution. Ours comes from the payment provider's webhook and is joined to the visit that produced it, so every source, campaign, page and search query is ranked by what it earned.
02Every visitor's journey
A session-by-session trail for one anonymous visitor. Simple Analytics collects no personal data at all, which is a deliberate position rather than a gap, and a per-visitor view is not compatible with it.
03Privacy, honestly compared
Both are cookieless and neither stores an IP address. They collect no personal data whatsoever and host in the Netherlands; we run on Cloudflare, a US company, and if you choose to link a visitor to a customer, that is personal data you have asked us to hold.
04Starting price, and the meter
Simple Analytics has a free plan with 30 days of history, then $20 a month with one user and $20 for each additional user. We count events and start at $9 for 25,000, with seats included in the plan.
Moving across from Simple Analytics
Keep the free plan running. Add our tag beside it, connect your payment provider, and give it a fortnight of real sales. If the money column never tells you anything you did not know, you have lost nothing and you still have theirs.
What it costs
Priced by events a month, with everything on both plans except the number of sites and seats.
Starter
For one site and one person.
Billed monthly · up to 100K events
7 days free trial
- Realtime dashboard
- Live Globe
- User Profiles
- Funnels
- Revenue tracking
- Core Web Vitals
- and 9 more, on every plan
Growth
RecommendedFor several sites and the people who work on them.
Billed monthly · up to 100K events
7 days free trial
- Realtime dashboard
- Live Globe
- User Profiles
- Funnels
- Revenue tracking
- Core Web Vitals
- and 9 more, on every plan
Every plan starts with 7 days free. No commitment, cancel anytime. Prices exclude VAT, which may apply at checkout.
GeckoStats and Simple Analytics: the questions people ask
They have a free plan. Why would I pay?
If you are not selling anything, do not. The paid difference buys one thing: knowing which visit became a payment. On a site with no payments that is worth nothing, and we would rather say so.
Is GeckoStats as private as Simple Analytics?
Close, not identical. Neither sets a cookie or stores an IP. They collect no personal data at all and host in the Netherlands; we run on Cloudflare, and if you link a visitor to a customer, which is your choice, that is personal data you have asked us to hold.
Can I import my Simple Analytics history?
No. Run both for a fortnight rather than joining two different ways of counting.
Do I need a banner with either?
No. Neither uses cookies for analytics.
Comparisons with the other five
vs Plausible
Both are cookieless, both fit in a page of numbers rather than a reporting suite.
vs Fathom
Fathom charges one price for everything it has and keeps your data forever.
vs Google Analytics
GA4 is free, and that is a real argument.
vs DataFast
This is the closest comparison on the site.
vs Umami
Umami is the most generous product in this comparison: MIT licensed, self-hostable for nothing, and free in the cloud up to 100,000 events.
See which traffic pays, this week.
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