Simple Analytics is a privacy-first tool from the Netherlands. Datasense is also easy to read, and it costs less for 100k pageviews and shows errors, revenue and realtime visitors too. It uses cookies by default, with a cookieless mode one setting away.
Free up to 10k pageviews a month. No card.
Both respect privacy. Simple Analytics needs no cookie banner out of the box, and Datasense needs none once you turn on cookieless mode. Simple Analytics has a free plan for up to 5 sites, with a badge and one month of history. Datasense's paid plan is less than half the price for the same traffic, with more features.
Side by side, on the things people ask about most. Checked against Simple Analytics's own site in October 2026.
| Feature | Datasense | Simple Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 10k pageviews a month, 1 site | 5 sites, 1 month of history, badge required |
| Paid plans from | $9/month for 100k pageviews | $20/month for 100k pageviews |
| No cookie banner needed | Cookies by default; switch any site to cookieless | No cookies |
| Realtime visitors | Updates every second | Not clearly documented |
| JavaScript error tracking | Last 100 errors per site, with stack and browser | Not offered |
| Revenue by traffic source | Stripe, Dodo Payments or any provider | Not offered |
| Goals and custom events | One line of code or a data attribute | Events, goals and funnels |
| Proxy to get past ad blockers | Recipes for Next.js, Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, Nginx | On some plans |
| AI crawler and bot tracking | See which AI crawlers read your pages | Filters datacenter traffic, no crawler report |
| Visitor profiles and journeys | Each visitor's pages, visit by visit | Doesn't track individual visitors |
| Raw data export | CSV and JSON, any date range | CSV and Export API |
| Script size | Under 3 KB | About 4 KB |
| Open source / self-host | The script is open source; the app isn't self-hostable |
Simple Analytics starts at $20 a month for 100k pageviews, plus $20 a month for each extra user. Datasense is $9 a month for 100k pageviews.
Datasense updates every second, so you can watch visitors arrive after a launch or a post. You can also open one visitor and see the pages they read, without storing raw IP addresses.
Datasense keeps the last 100 JavaScript errors on your site and ties payments to the visit that led to them. Simple Analytics focuses on traffic and events.
Simple Analytics has a free plan for 1 user and 5 sites, with one month of history and a badge on your site. Paid plans start at $20 a month for 100k pageviews. Datasense is free up to 10k pageviews, then $9 a month for 100k pageviews and 10 sites.
It takes about five minutes, and you don't have to turn anything off on day one.
Create a free account and paste one script tag into your site's <head>. Leave Simple Analytics where it is for now.
Compare visitors, top pages and sources. Datasense often shows more visitors once the proxy is on, because ad blockers stop blocking it.
When you're happy, delete the Simple Analytics snippet. Export your old data from Simple Analytics first if you want to keep it.
Or see all web analytics tools on one page.
Add one script tag, compare the numbers, then keep the one you like. The free plan is enough to test it.
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