Umami alternatives
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Umami is a privacy-focused, open-source web analytics platform — self-host it for free or use Umami Cloud with usage-based pricing.
Switching to DataBull saves $132 / year and covers 86% of the compared capabilities.
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Top Umami alternatives
We compared 16 products and found 10 cheaper options (7 of them cover at least half the compared features) · vs Umami Pro at $20/mo · scenario: 50,000 pageviews or events/month, 1 site, monthly billing, USD.
Umami’s own free plan covers this scenario. If you’re paying for features you don’t use, downgrading beats switching. The paid comparison below is for when you’ve outgrown free tiers — the “Free plans” view shows alternatives if you want free with different limits.
Umami costs $20/mo on the Pro plan at 50,000 pageviews or events/month, 1 site, monthly billing. We found 10 assessed alternatives that are cheaper in this scenario; 3 of them cover at least 75% of the 7 compared capabilities. Umami's own free plan covers this scenario, so downgrading may beat switching.
| Product | Match | Price | Annual savings | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
TOP PICK DataBull Hosted Starter (beta) plan · missing: Data export | 86% | $9/mo how? ⓘ | $132 / year 55% cheaper | |
Pirsch Analytics Standard · 100k plan · missing: Realtime visitor view, MCP server for AI agents | 71% | $12/mo how? ⓘ | $96 / year 40% cheaper | |
Fathom Analytics Base plan · missing: MCP server for AI agents | 86% | $15/mo how? ⓘ | $60 / year 25% cheaper | |
DataFast Starter · 100k plan · missing: Privacy-focused analytics, Data export | 71% | $19/mo how? ⓘ | $12 / year 5% cheaper | |
Plausible Analytics Starter · 100k plan · missing: Analytics API, MCP server for AI agents | 71% | $19/mo how? ⓘ | $12 / year 5% cheaper |
Which Umami alternative for which situation
Picked by the numbers in this scenario — same subtype unless stated, assessed products only.
- Best free plan
- Minilytics — $0/mo (Self-hosted (open source) plan) · covers 43%
- Best open source or self-hosted
- PostHog — $0/mo (Free plan) · covers 86%
- Best paid drop-in
- DataBull — $9/mo (Hosted Starter (beta) plan) · covers 86%
- Need privacy-focused analytics?
- Simple Analytics — from $0/mo (Free plan)
- Need event tracking, pageview analytics, analytics API, data export, realtime visitor view or MCP server for AI agents?
- PostHog — from $0/mo (Free plan)
What you give up
Capabilities Umami has that the top alternatives lack.
- Privacy-focused analytics — Track visitors without using personally identifying data.Missing from PostHog, Mixpanel, Amplitude, Minilytics.
- Analytics API — Pull analytics data programmatically via an API.Missing from Amplitude, Minilytics.
- Data export — Export raw analytics data for use in other tools.Missing from Amplitude, Minilytics.
- Realtime visitor view — See visitors on the site right now (live or last-minutes view).Missing from Mixpanel, Amplitude.
- MCP server for AI agents — Official MCP server so AI assistants (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT…) can query your analytics.Missing from Minilytics.
Price at your volume
The same comparison recomputed at three sizes. Plan caps change who is cheapest.
Feature comparison
Umami vs the top alternatives, on the 7 compared capabilities.
| Capability | Umami | PostHog | Mixpanel | Amplitude | Minilytics |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privacy-focused analytics | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Event tracking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pageview analytics | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Analytics API from Pro | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Data export | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Realtime visitor view | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| MCP server for AI agents from Pro | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Scenario price cheapest qualifying plan | $20/mo Pro | $0/mo Free | $0/mo Free | $0/mo Free | $0/mo Self-hosted (open source) |
✓ means the product offers the capability — possibly only on a higher tier than the plan priced below it. The price row shows the cheapest plan that qualifies for our comparison scenario, with its plan name; a $0 free plan may not include every checked capability.
What Umami covers
The capability set used for comparison. Grey entries are not available on self-serve plans.
- ✓ Privacy-focused analytics
- ✓ Event tracking
- ✓ Pageview analytics
- ✓ Analytics API — from Pro
- ✓ Data export
- ✓ Realtime visitor view
- ✓ MCP server for AI agents — from Pro
- ↑ Unlimited websites — only from Business, not compared
Price ladder
Observed prices from the official pricing page.
Who switched
Anonymous: no account, no email, no IP stored. Reports are shown once a switch has 3 or more and never change ranking or order — alternatives are computed from prices and capabilities only.
Sources
Every claim traces to an official source and a check date.
- https://umami.is/pricing (official_pricing, checked 2026-10-26)
- https://umami.is (feature_page, checked 2026-10-28)
Frequently asked
How much does Umami cost?
Umami's Pro plan costs $20/mo in our scenario (50,000 pageviews or events/month, 1 site, monthly billing). A free plan exists.
Is there a free Umami alternative?
Yes. Minilytics has a free plan that covers 43% of the 7 capabilities we compared against Umami.
What is the cheapest Umami alternative?
In our scenario (50,000 pageviews or events/month, 1 site, monthly billing), PostHog is the cheapest assessed alternative at $0/mo (Free plan).
What is the cheapest Umami alternative with Privacy-focused analytics?
Simple Analytics covers Privacy-focused analytics and costs $0/mo (Free plan) in our scenario.
Does Umami have a free plan?
Yes. Umami's free plan is limited to 100,000 pageviews or events/month.
When were these prices checked?
Between 2026-10-26 and 2026-10-29, on the vendors' official pricing pages.