Vercel Web Analytics is easy to turn on if your site already runs on Vercel. Datasense works on any host and gives you more: realtime visitors, revenue by source, JavaScript errors and AI crawler stats.
Free up to 10k pageviews a month. No card.
If your site is on Vercel and you only want pageviews, Vercel Analytics is the easiest choice. If you want goals on the free plan, longer history, revenue and errors, or you might move hosts later, Datasense is the better fit.
Side by side, on the things people ask about most. Checked against Vercel Analytics's own site in October 2026.
| Feature | Datasense | Vercel Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | 10k pageviews a month, 1 site | 50k events on Hobby, no custom events |
| Paid plans from | $9/month for 100k pageviews | Usage-based on Vercel Pro |
| 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 | Custom events on Pro only |
| Proxy to get past ad blockers | Recipes for Next.js, Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, Nginx | Served from your domain by default |
| AI crawler and bot tracking | See which AI crawlers read your pages | Filtered, not reported |
| 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 up to 250 rows per panel, and Drains |
| Script size | Under 3 KB | Not published |
| Open source / self-host |
Vercel Analytics is tied to your Vercel project. Datasense is one script tag, so it works on Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, your own server or a website builder.
On Vercel's free Hobby plan you can't track custom events, and history is limited to one month. Datasense shows goals, revenue by source, JavaScript errors and AI crawler visits.
Both tools can load from your own domain. On Vercel it's built in. With Datasense you add two rewrites, and there are copy-paste recipes for Next.js and Vercel.
Vercel Web Analytics is free on Hobby with 50k events a month. On Pro ($20 a month), events cost $0.03 per 1k and come out of your usage credit. Datasense is free up to 10k pageviews, then $9 a month for 100k on any host.
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 Vercel 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 Vercel Analytics snippet. Export your old data from Vercel 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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