Is Cookie Free Analytics an OpenPanel alternative?

No, if you use OpenPanel as product analytics. Yes only if someone installed OpenPanel for brochure pageviews and you want a 1 KB cookieless counter instead — pageviews after Reject, from €4, Frankfurt ingest.

Do you publish a dual-run lift versus OpenPanel?

No. We do not invent percentages. Run both for a week if you want your own gap. Your logs are the case study.

OpenPanel is cookieless too — why pick you?

Same privacy neighbourhood, different job. They go deep on product events and replay. We stay on pageviews, sources, campaigns, and goals. Hobby free with a badge; Starter from €4; Growth from €8. Beacons hit Frankfurt; pageviews sit in Ireland.

vs OpenPanel

OpenPanel is product analytics. We are pageviews.

OpenPanel is an open-source Mixpanel-shaped product: events, funnels, retention, replay. People search “OpenPanel alternative” when they wanted a brochure-site counter and got a product OS. Cookie Free Analytics is the cookieless pageview tool — not a smaller OpenPanel.

	Cookie Free Analytics	OpenPanel
Job	Cookieless pageviews / sources / campaigns / goals	Product analytics + web events + replay
Cookies	No	Cookieless by default
Funnels / retention	Growth: linear, same UTC day — not week-4 cohorts	Core product
Session replay	Will not ship	Yes
Self-host	No	Yes (open source)
Price model	Hobby free + badge, paid from €4	Events; cheap cloud or self-host
Script	Under 1 KB gzipped (~920 B)	A product SDK
Hosted	Frankfurt + Ireland	Their EU cloud / yours

What they actually are

OpenPanel sells web and product analytics together: custom events, funnels, cohorts, user profiles, session replay, self-host or cloud. Cookieless by default is a real claim. The job is still “what did this user do”, not “did /pricing load after Reject”.

When to pick them

You need funnels across signed-in flows, retention, replay, or a self-hosted Mixpanel stand-in. That is product analytics. Buy OpenPanel, PostHog, or Mixpanel. Not us.

When to pick us

You wanted pageviews, sources, campaigns, and goals on a marketing site — after Reject, without inventing a dual-run percentage. Paste our script. Leave OpenPanel inside the product if you already use it.

The honest bit

They have depth we will not ship: replay, cohorts, A/B, a self-host path. Comparing our pageview price to their event stack is a category error. We will not pretend otherwise.

Questions

Is Cookie Free Analytics an OpenPanel alternative?: No, if you use OpenPanel as product analytics. Yes only if someone installed OpenPanel for brochure pageviews and you want a 1 KB cookieless counter instead — pageviews after Reject, from €4, Frankfurt ingest.
Do you publish a dual-run lift versus OpenPanel?: No. We do not invent percentages. Run both for a week if you want your own gap. Your logs are the case study.
OpenPanel is cookieless too — why pick you?: Same privacy neighbourhood, different job. They go deep on product events and replay. We stay on pageviews, sources, campaigns, and goals. Hobby free with a badge; Starter from €4; Growth from €8. Beacons hit Frankfurt; pageviews sit in Ireland.

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