Simple Analytics, in its own terms
Simple Analytics is a hosted, privacy-first analytics service. Pricing is usage-based and starts at $20 a month for up to 100,000 pageviews, with a free tier for hobby sites limited to one month of history, one user and five websites. It sets no cookies, needs no consent banner, processes non-personal data only, and states that website data never leaves the Netherlands and therefore the EU.
Checked against simpleanalytics.com/pricing in august 2026. Products change; verify anything you are deciding on.
Where they actually differ
| Falorb | Simple Analytics | |
|---|---|---|
| Model | Self-hosted software | Hosted service, EU only |
| Licence | MIT | Commercial, closed |
| Cost | Free; you pay for a server | Free hobby tier, then from $20 a month |
| Data location | Any region you choose | The Netherlands |
| Personal data | Person-level, on your own infrastructure | Non-personal data only |
| Processor agreement | None; there is no processor | Simple Analytics is your processor |
| Unit of analysis | The person, across every property | Aggregate statistics per site |
Which one you should actually use
- Processing no personal data at all is the compliance position you want.
- You want EU residency without running anything yourself.
- A free hobby tier is enough for what you are measuring.
- You would rather sign a processor agreement than operate a database.
- You want data residency anywhere, decided by where you put the server.
- You need person-level history, and are willing to be the controller of it.
- You would rather have no third party in the chain than a compliant one.
- You run enough sites that per-site pricing starts to add up.
The Falorb side, in the real interface
vs Simple Analytics: the usual questions
Which is better for GDPR?
They take opposite routes to the same concern. Simple Analytics avoids the question by processing no personal data. Falorb keeps person-level data but removes the transfer and the processor, since it runs on your infrastructure and stores no raw IP addresses. Which is simpler depends on whether you actually need person-level detail; if you do not, processing nothing is the cleaner answer.
Still deciding?
The fastest way to decide is to run it
Clone the repository, bring the stack up with Docker Compose and paste one script tag. Ten minutes, and no account anywhere.