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The Simple Analytics alternative for founders who sell online

Simple Analytics is privacy-first, cookie-free analytics built and hosted in the EU. Trakily keeps the one-screen simplicity and adds money: it reads payments from your provider and shows which channels bring paying customers.

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The short version

Two good tools, built for different jobs

Both are solid choices. Here's who each one suits best, as of Oct 2026.

Choose
Trakily if…
  • You want revenue per channel, page and campaign from your payment provider
  • You want funnels and each paying customer's path from first visit to payment
  • You want to bring a Plausible export as well as your GA4 history
  • You want to start at $9/month
Choose
Simple Analytics if…
  • You want analytics without cookies or consent banners
  • You want an EU-built, EU-hosted tool
  • You want a free plan for basic traffic numbers
  • You need an admin API to create and manage websites from code
Full breakdown

Trakily vs Simple Analytics, feature by feature

What each tool does today, checked against Simple Analytics's own documentation as of Oct 2026.

Supported With caveats Not available Detail
01Revenue & attribution
Revenue by channel, page and campaign
TrakilyYes: Payments are read from your provider and matched to the visit that brought the buyer
Simple AnalyticsNote: Their docs cover events and goals; we couldn't find revenue or payment-provider features[2][3]
Payment providers
TrakilyYes: Stripe, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle, Dodo Payments and Razorpay with an API key
Simple AnalyticsNote: None listed in their docs[2]
02Reports
Events and goals
TrakilyYes: Goals on every plan, funnels on Growth and up
Simple AnalyticsYes: Custom events, automated events and goals[3][4]
API
TrakilyYes: REST API on the Scale plan: stats and raw data export out, events and payments in; no admin API
Simple AnalyticsYes: Stats, export and admin APIs[5]
03Privacy & data
Cookies
TrakilyNote: First-party cookies on your domain, or an optional cookieless script
Simple AnalyticsNote: No cookies, no consent required from visitors[2]
Hosting
TrakilyNote: Hosted service
Simple AnalyticsNote: Built and hosted in the EU[2]
Data retention
TrakilyNote: 1, 3 or 5 years depending on plan
Simple AnalyticsNote: 1 month of history on the free plan[1]
04Setup & pricing
Bring your old data
TrakilyYes: Import your GA4 history or a Plausible export
Simple AnalyticsYes: GA4 import[6]
Free trial
TrakilyNote: 14 days, no card required
Simple AnalyticsNote: 14 days, no card required[1]
Price
TrakilyNote: From $9/month for 10k events
Simple AnalyticsYes: Free plan; paid from $20/month, priced by usage[1]

Simple Analytics details last checked on October 7, 2026 against the official pages below. Features and prices change; check their site for the latest. Simple Analytics is a trademark of its owner, and Trakily isn't affiliated with it.

  1. [1] Simple Analytics pricing
  2. [2] Simple Analytics docs
  3. [3] Events
  4. [4] Goals
  5. [5] APIs
  6. [6] Import Google Analytics data
Pricing

What you'd actually pay

Simple Analytics prices as published on their site, Oct 2026.

Trakily
From$9/month
14-day free trial, no card required. 2 months free on yearly.
Starter10k monthly events · 1 website$9/mo
Growth100k monthly events · 10 websites$19/mo
Scale1M monthly events · Unlimited websites$49/mo

Revenue attribution and payment sync on every plan.

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Simple Analytics
Free
Free plan with 1 month of history. Paid from $20/month.
Free1 month of historyFree
Self-servePriced by monthly usageFrom $20/mo
EnterpriseAPI & BI access, proxies, custom domainsCustom

Simple Analytics' free plan is a real plus for basic traffic numbers. Trakily starts at $9/month and includes revenue from your payment provider on every plan.

Source: Simple Analytics pricing
Why founders switch

What Trakily does differently

Where the two tools differ most for founders who sell online.

+ Polar
Google$1,240
ChatGPT$880
X$360

Revenue next to your traffic

Paste an API key from Stripe, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle, Dodo Payments or Razorpay. Payments, refunds and subscriptions are matched to the visitor who made them.

Visitors
12.4k
Revenue
$4,280
Conv.
3.1%

Simple, with money on the chart

Visitors and revenue on the same chart, with channels, pages and countries underneath. One screen, nothing to configure.

Found you on GoogleMon
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Came back from ChatGPTThu
Lena paid · Growth plan$190

See what convinced each customer

Open any paying customer and follow every visit before they bought, from the first click to the checkout.

ChatGPT$880
Claude$410
Perplexity$260
Gemini$120

Know which AI assistants send buyers

Visits from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini are grouped into their own channel, with the revenue they bring. AI crawlers get a card of their own.

Switching

Switching takes 2 minutes

Keep Simple Analytics running while you try Trakily. Nothing to remove until you're sure.

<script defer
  data-website-id="…"
  src="https://trakily.com/js/script.js"></script>
1

Paste one script

Add the snippet to your site's <head>. Works with Next.js, WordPress, Webflow, Framer, Shopify and anything else that serves HTML.

Payments synced
2

Connect payments

Paste an API key from Stripe, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle, Dodo Payments or Razorpay. Past payments sync too.

+ Polar
Google$1,240
ChatGPT$880
X$360
3

Watch the money come in

Each new payment shows up next to the channel, page and campaign that brought the buyer.

FAQ

Trakily vs Simple Analytics, answered

What people ask before they switch.

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If you sell online and want to see which channels bring paying customers, yes. If you want no cookies at all, an EU-hosted tool or a free plan, Simple Analytics is a great fit.

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