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A Piwik PRO alternative now that the free plan is gone

Piwik PRO retired its free Core plan in February 2026. Its entry price is now 36 € a month, and its analytics sets first-party cookies unless you switch it to an anonymous mode. If you were on Core for a small site, the question is no longer which is better — it is what you do next.

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Piwik PRO figures read on its pricing and help pages, September 2026.

In short: Piwik PRO is an enterprise compliance suite — consent manager, tag manager, customer data platform, a choice of data centre written into the contract, HIPAA, on-premises. If your buying decision goes through a legal department, it is a serious answer and Kipstats is not. If you are a business that wants to know why its checkout leaks, 36 € a month for cookies-by-default and API-only raw data is a lot of machinery.

Kipstats vs Piwik PRO, line by line

Piwik PRO Business plan unless stated. The rows where it wins are in the table too.

Free plan

Kipstats

1 site, 10K views/month

Piwik PRO

Discontinued in February 2026

Entry price

Kipstats

9€/month

Piwik PRO

From 36€/month

Enterprise tier

Kipstats

Piwik PRO

From 366€/month

Cookies by default

Kipstats

None

Piwik PRO

Yes, anonymous modes available

Consent manager included

Kipstats

Piwik PRO

Yes

Tag manager

Kipstats

Piwik PRO

Yes

Data centre choice in contract

Kipstats

EU only

Piwik PRO

Sweden, Germany, US, more

On-premises / HIPAA

Kipstats

Piwik PRO

Enterprise

Data retention

Kipstats

No limit today

Piwik PRO

25 months

Raw data export

Kipstats

API + CSV, every plan

Piwik PRO

API only on Business

Rage clicks, dead clicks, JS errors

Kipstats

Yes

Piwik PRO

Abandoned form fields

Kipstats

Yes

Piwik PRO

Server-side purchases

Kipstats

Yes

Piwik PRO

Via its own tracking API

AI assistants as a channel

Kipstats

Yes

Piwik PRO

Time to first number

Kipstats

One script tag

Piwik PRO

Tag manager setup

	Kipstats	Piwik PRO
Free plan	1 site, 10K views/month	Discontinued in February 2026
Entry price	9€/month	From 36€/month
Enterprise tier	—	From 366€/month
Cookies by default	None	Yes, anonymous modes available
Consent manager included	—	✓
Tag manager	—	✓
Data centre choice in contract	EU only	Sweden, Germany, US, more
On-premises / HIPAA	—	Enterprise
Data retention	No limit today	25 months
Raw data export	API + CSV, every plan	API only on Business
Rage clicks, dead clicks, JS errors	✓	✗
Abandoned form fields	✓	✗
Server-side purchases	✓	Via its own tracking API
AI assistants as a channel	✓	✗
Time to first number	One script tag	Tag manager setup

Piwik PRO figures read on its own pricing and documentation pages, September 2026. Prices move — check theirs before deciding.

What changed, and what it costs you

1. The free plan ended

Piwik PRO announced its new pricing in August 2025 and moved Core users to Business; its own community forum states the free Core plan was discontinued in February 2026. What remains is a 30-day trial, after which an account that does not upgrade is deleted with its data seven days later. Kipstats keeps a free plan for one site and 10,000 pageviews a month, with every feature in it.

2. Cookies by default

Piwik PRO sets first-party cookies out of the box — a visitor ID for 13 months, a session cookie for 30 minutes, a consent cookie for 12 months. It ships a consent manager precisely because it needs one, and it offers anonymous modes you can enable. Kipstats has no cookie to turn off: a visitor is an anonymous daily fingerprint, and the IP address is never stored.

3. Your raw data, and how you get it out

On Business, raw data access is API-only — the CSV, BigQuery, S3 and SFTP exports belong to Enterprise or to paid add-ons. Kipstats gives every plan a REST API with an OpenAPI spec and a CSV export, including the free one. See the API reference.

What Piwik PRO does better

Almost everything a regulated organisation asks for: a consent manager, a tag manager, customer data activation, 25 months of retention, a contractual choice of data centre (Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, the US and more), private cloud, HIPAA and on-premises deployments. Kipstats has none of that, and is not trying to.

Which one is for you

Pick Kipstats if…

You were on the free Core plan and 36 € a month is not proportionate to your site.
You want no cookie at all, rather than a cookie you configure away.
You want to see friction — rage clicks, abandoned fields — not only compliance-grade counts.
You want the API and CSV export without an add-on.

Stay on Piwik PRO if…

Your legal or security team requires a DPA with a named data centre, HIPAA or on-premises.
You need a consent manager and a tag manager from the same vendor.
You run customer data activation and audience exports.
You need 25 months of retention contractually guaranteed.

Questions

Is Piwik PRO still free?

No. The free Core plan was discontinued in February 2026; what remains is a 30-day trial and plans starting at 36 € a month. Accounts that do not upgrade are deleted with their data seven days after the trial.

Does Piwik PRO need a cookie banner?

By default it sets first-party cookies, which is why it ships a consent manager. It also offers anonymous modes that reduce or remove that. Kipstats never sets one, so the question does not arise for it.

Can Kipstats replace a consent manager?

No, and it should not pretend to. Kipstats itself needs no consent, but if you run other scripts that do, you still need a consent tool.

What about migrating history?

There is no import today. Run both in parallel for a few weeks, or export from Piwik PRO and keep the file — your Kipstats history starts on the day you install the script.

Coming from the old free Core plan?

One site and 10,000 pageviews a month, free, with friction detection and the API included.

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