Clicky vs Histats (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Clicky and Histats share a 2.8 GPA, both have a free plan, and Histats has no paid plan to buy, against $9.99 a month for Clicky.
Checked Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Clicky grades higher on features and platforms. Histats grades higher on value for money and the free plan. They get the same grade on ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Clicky
Real-time, privacy-friendly web analytics with heatmaps
Which one is for you
Pick Clicky if
- Fits if you want live visitor logs on a small site
- Works for people who want heatmaps and uptime checks in one cheap plan
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you stay free: 1 site, 3,000 daily pageviews and 30 days of history
- Pricey if you need heatmaps, as they need Pro Plus, $14.99 a month
- Watch out: caps are daily pageviews added up across all your sites
- Watch out: individual visitor logs are only guaranteed for 6 months on paid plans
Pick Histats if
- Fits if you run several small sites and want free stats
- Works for people who want a visible hit counter on the page
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you need support, as it is a forum or Facebook
- Watch out: the log analyzer covers only the last 20,000 hits
- Watch out: the site lists no paid tier, so no business support terms are published
- Watch out: check its privacy and cookie policies before using it where consent rules apply
How we grade them
| 2.8GPAClickyGood | 2.8GPAHistatsGood | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | BPro is $9.99 a month, or $79.99 a year, but heatmaps sit on Pro Plus at $14.99, still inside the cheapest quarter (from $16.58). | AFree for every feature, with no paid tier, and the features page says no limits up to 10 million hits a day. |
| Free plan and trial | BFree for 1 site and 3,000 daily pageviews, with basic reports and API access. History is 30 days, and no premium features. | AFree outright, with up to 300 sites per account and no cap a normal person would reach. |
| Features | BLive logs, heatmaps, goals, split testing, uptime monitoring and bot filtering. The listing shows no gap in the core job. | CReal-time stats, traffic reports, tags and custom events and counters cover the basics, but the log analyzer only keeps 20,000 hits. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. You add a tracking script. | CA snippet to add to each site and a control panel to set up, and no store rating on record. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb plus a browser extension, with WordPress, Shopify, Google Tag Manager, Webflow, Wix and more. | CWeb only, with no integrations or apps listed. |
| Best for | live web stats with heatmaps on cheap plans | free hit counters and visitor stats |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Clicky and Histats. How we grade
Price against what you get
Clicky starts at $9.99 a month and scores 2.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Histats has no paid plan and scores 2.0.
Clicky scores higher, and starts $9.99 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other website and product analytics tools on the chart, none scores higher than Clicky for less, and none scores higher than Histats for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Clicky also covers dashboards and a/B testing.
At a glance
| Clicky | Histats | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free |
| Starts at | $9.99 per month, billed monthly ($79.99 billed yearly) | Free |
| Free plan | 1 website and up to 3,000 daily page views, with 30 days of history and no premium features. | Everything is free: the features page says there are no service limits up to 10 million hits a day and keeps statistics for 10+ years. |
| Free trial | 21-day free trial of premium service for up to 3 websites and 1,000,000 daily page views | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Roxr Software Ltd | wisecode srl unipersonale |
| Price read from | clicky.com | histats.com |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Clicky
- Plans are capped by daily page views summed across all sites on the account, not by a monthly total.
- Heatmaps and uptime monitoring need Pro Plus or higher, and the free plan keeps only 30 days of history.
- Individual visitor and action logs are guaranteed for 6 months on paid plans, even though other history is kept indefinitely.
- Pro Platinum and Custom are the only tiers above 30,000 daily page views; the Custom price is not published.
Histats
- Support is through a forum or Facebook, per the features page.
- The log analyzer covers the last 20,000 hits.
- The service is web-only and the site lists no paid tier, so no business-level support terms are published.
- The site shows a widget opt-out and policy page, so check its privacy and cookie policies before using it where consent rules apply.
Key features
Clicky
- Real-time visitor logs
- Every visitor, page view and JavaScript event is listed as it happens, and the Spy view streams live traffic without a refresh.
- Heatmaps
- Click heatmaps are logged per page and per visitor and can be filtered by segment, goal or split test. They need Pro Plus or higher.
- Bot filtering and ad-block tracking
- Filters bots and referrer spam, and a reverse-proxy option routes tracking through your own domain so ad-block visitors are counted.
- Goals, split testing and campaigns
- Up to 30 goals per site with revenue tracking, split tests, and campaign reports that read UTM tags.
- Uptime monitoring
- Checks a site or other endpoint such as mail from several locations, alerts on downtime and keeps a history of outages. Needs Pro Plus or higher.
- Custom data on visitors
- Attach values such as a username or email to a visitor's session, which the vendor suggests for customer support.
Histats
- Real-time statistics
- Online visitors, recent and most active visits, popular pages and referrers, and geolocation update as traffic arrives.
- Log analyzer
- Covers the last 20,000 hits with IP tags, visitor paths and segmentation by IP, country, city, referrer, search keyword, entry page and hardware. Saved filters can be reloaded.
- Traffic reports
- Hourly, daily and monthly analytics for referring sites, search engines, social networks, browsers, operating systems, languages and visited URLs.
- Tags and custom events
- Page titles and tags, custom events and variables, and downloads or clicks can be tracked.
- Counter styles
- A hidden tracker, or a visible counter chosen from 500 or more styles, with configurable starting values.
- Multi-site control panel
- One account manages up to 300 sites, with user access management and privacy settings for each site's stats page.
Plans
Clicky
Free$0
1 website, 3,000 daily page views and 30 days of history. Basic reports, segmentation, widgets and API access.
Pro$9.99
per month, billed monthly ($79.99 billed yearly)
10 websites and 30,000 daily page views in total. Spy, advanced filtering, goals, split testing, unlimited history.
Pro Plus$14.99
per month, billed monthly ($119.99 billed yearly)
10 websites and 30,000 daily page views. Adds heatmaps and uptime monitoring to everything in Pro.
Pro Platinum$19.99
per month, billed monthly ($159.99 billed yearly)
30 websites and 100,000 daily page views in total, with every Pro Plus feature.
CustomCustom
Up to 1,000 websites and up to 20 million daily page views; the price varies with the arrangement.
Histats
Free$0
All features, up to 300 sites per account, with no service limits up to 10 million hits a day.
Ways to pay less
Clicky
- Annual discount
Save 33% with yearly billing
Clicky's pricing page lists the yearly prices as a 33% saving over paying monthly for Pro, Pro Plus and Pro Platinum.
Histats
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Clicky or Histats?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Histats is cheaper to start with: it is free, against $9.99 a month for Clicky. Clicky starts at $9.99 per month, billed monthly ($79.99 billed yearly), and Histats is free.
Which has a free plan, Clicky or Histats?
As of Nov 13, 2026, both Clicky and Histats have a free plan.
Which platforms do Clicky and Histats run on?
As of Nov 13, 2026, only Clicky lists a browser extension. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.