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Simple Analytics is the closest thing to Kipstats on principle: no cookies, no IP stored, hosted in the Netherlands, one clean dashboard. The differences are concrete — 20 € a month against 9 € at 100,000 pageviews, a free plan that demands a badge and keeps 30 days, and nothing that tells you where a visitor got stuck.
Simple Analytics figures read on its pricing and docs, September 2026.
In short: same privacy stance, same kind of dashboard, different priorities. Simple Analytics is lighter on the wire and offers three years of retention, Looker Studio and enterprise SSO. Kipstats costs less at the same volume, puts every feature in the free plan without a badge, and adds the layer neither of the two used to have: friction, revenue and bot separation.
Simple Analytics' lighter script and longer retention are in the table too.
Price at 100K pageviews/month
Kipstats
9€/month
Simple Analytics
20€/month
Free plan
Kipstats
1 site, 10K views, everything on
Simple Analytics
5 sites, 30 days, badge required
Events on the free plan
Kipstats
Yes
Simple Analytics
No
API on the free plan
Kipstats
Yes
Simple Analytics
No
Extra users
Kipstats
No team accounts yet
Simple Analytics
+20€/user/month
Cookies
Kipstats
None
Simple Analytics
None
IP stored
Kipstats
No
Simple Analytics
No
Script, gzipped
Kipstats
4.2 KB
Simple Analytics
3.7 KB, or 1.9 KB light
Hosting
Kipstats
European Union
Simple Analytics
Netherlands
Returning visitor within a day
Kipstats
Daily anonymous hash
Simple Analytics
Referrer-based only
Rage clicks, dead clicks, JS errors
Kipstats
Yes
Simple Analytics
No
Abandoned form fields
Kipstats
Yes
Simple Analytics
No
Server-side purchases with currency
Kipstats
Yes
Simple Analytics
No
Humans separated from robots
Kipstats
Yes
Simple Analytics
Bot blocking
AI assistants as a channel
Kipstats
Yes
Simple Analytics
No
Data retention
Kipstats
No limit today
Simple Analytics
3 years (30 days free)
Looker Studio connector
Kipstats
No
Simple Analytics
Yes
SSO, SOC 2
Kipstats
No
Simple Analytics
Enterprise
Simple Analytics figures read on its own pricing and documentation pages, September 2026. Prices move — check theirs before deciding.
Simple Analytics' free tier is for hobby sites: a badge on your pages is required, history stops at 30 days, and goals, events, metadata and both APIs are switched off. Kipstats' free plan is one site and 10,000 pageviews a month with everything on — events, revenue, friction, API — and no badge.
Simple Analytics deduplicates visits using the referrer — if the previous page was on your own domain, it is not a new visit. It is the most privacy-preserving method there is, and they are open about its limit: no cross-session recognition. Kipstats uses a daily anonymous fingerprint, which recognises a visitor across pages and tabs within a day, and deliberately forgets them at midnight. Neither can follow anyone across days.
Both count pages and events. Only Kipstats records the rage click on your "Pay" button, the field everyone abandons in your signup form, the JavaScript error on the checkout page, and a purchase pushed from your payment webhook with its amount and currency. How revenue tracking works.
Its light script is 1.9 KB gzipped against our 4.2 KB, and even its full script is slightly lighter. It documents three years of retention, ships a Looker Studio connector, and offers SSO, SOC 2 and a data proxy on its enterprise tier. It also has ten sites on a single paid plan, where our 9 € plan stops at ten too — but theirs charges 20 € per extra user, and we have no team accounts at all yet.
For a hobby site, yes: five sites, unlimited pageviews under fair use. But it requires their badge on your pages, keeps only 30 days of history, and disables goals, events, metadata and the APIs.
Simple Analytics. Their full script is about 3.7 KB gzipped and their light build 1.9 KB, against 4.2 KB for ours. Ours carries the friction capture — rage clicks, dead clicks, abandoned fields — which is where the extra kilobyte goes.
Yes. Neither sets cookies, neither stores IP addresses. Your other scripts may still require one.
No, there is no import today. Run both in parallel for a couple of weeks and keep your export — Kipstats history starts the day you add the script.
Free for one site, everything included, no badge. Run it next to your current tool for a week.
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