Betterlytics
Privacy-first, cookieless web analytics with session replay, error tracking, and uptime monitoring, open-source and self-hostable.
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Description
Website analytics usually means Google Analytics: powerful, free, but it tracks visitors with cookies and hands your visitor data to Google — which is exactly what privacy laws like GDPR are pushing companies away from. Betterlytics is built to answer that: it counts your visitors and shows you where they came from and what they did, without cookies and without needing an annoying cookie-consent banner, while also recording session replays (watching how a real visitor moved through your site) and catching errors and downtime — all in one dashboard.
Under the hood, Betterlytics is fully open-source (AGPL-3.0) and can be self-hosted via Docker for complete data ownership, or used as a hosted SaaS. Beyond core web analytics, it bundles session replay, error tracking, uptime monitoring, and Core Web Vitals performance tracking — a broader feature set than single-purpose competitors like Plausible or Fathom. It positions itself against Google Analytics, Plausible, Fathom, Umami, PostHog, and Matomo.
💬 Our review
The short version: Betterlytics is a strong pick if you want privacy-friendly analytics plus session replay and uptime monitoring without juggling three separate tools, and its $7/month Professional tier undercuts most competitors on price for what it bundles.
Compared to Plausible or Fathom — the best-known privacy-first Google Analytics alternatives — those tools do analytics only and do it very well, while Betterlytics trades some of that focus for breadth: session replay and uptime monitoring in the same product is a genuine convenience if you'd otherwise pay for Hotjar or a status-monitoring tool separately. The free tier (10K events/month, 2 sites, 3 team members) is usable for a small site but tight for a team; being open-source and self-hostable is a real advantage for anyone who wants full data control, though the ecosystem and community are still much smaller than the established players, so expect fewer integrations and community plugins for now.
💰 Pricing
📊 Global score
🤖 AI-enriched data
Free up to 10K events/month; $7/month Professional tier
Pros
Cookieless privacy-first tracking
Bundles session replay + error tracking + uptime
Open-source, self-hostable
Affordable pricing
Cons
Tight free tier limits
Retention caps by plan
Smaller community than established players