Clicky vs Simple Analytics (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Clicky grades higher than Simple Analytics: 2.8 against 2.6 out of 4.0.
Checked Nov 12, 2026 · graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
Clicky grades higher on value for money and features. Simple Analytics grades higher on ease of use. They get the same grade on the free plan and platforms.
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
Simple Analytics
Cookieless web analytics hosted in the EU
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 Simple Analytics if
- Fits if you want a single page of traffic numbers with no cookie banner
- Works for someone leaving GA4 who wants to run both side by side
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want to follow individual visitors, as it records pageviews with no visitor IDs
- Tight if you stay free: 1 month of history and a badge shown on your site
- Pricey if you add team members, at $20 a month each
- Watch out: bills from $500 paid by bank transfer carry an extra 10% in fees
How we grade them
| 2.8GPAClickyGood | 2.6GPASimple AnalyticsGood | |
|---|---|---|
| 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). | C$20 a month for up to 100k pageviews, with extra users $20 a month each. That's just above the analytics cheaper quarter of $16.58. |
| 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. | BFree plan: 1 user, 5 websites and unlimited pageviews under fair use. It keeps 1 month of history and requires a badge. There's also a 14-day trial with no card. |
| Features | BLive logs, heatmaps, goals, split testing, uptime monitoring and bot filtering. The listing shows no gap in the core job. | CCookie-free pageviews and events, one-page dashboard, API and BI access, Google Analytics import and EU hosting. It does that job fully, but it doesn't follow individual users. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. You add a tracking script. | BNo store rating on record. You paste in a script and read one page, with nothing to build. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb plus a browser extension, with WordPress, Shopify, Google Tag Manager, Webflow, Wix and more. | BWeb only, but it works with WordPress, Webflow, Squarespace, Wix, Ghost, Cloudflare, Netlify and Google Tag Manager, plus an API. |
| Best for | live web stats with heatmaps on cheap plans | simple, cookie-free site 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 Simple Analytics. 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. Simple Analytics starts at $20 a month and scores 2.7.
They score the same, and Clicky starts $10.01 a month lower. Of the other website and product analytics tools on the chart, none scores higher than Clicky for less, and none scores higher than Simple Analytics 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 | Simple Analytics | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $9.99 per month, billed monthly ($79.99 billed yearly) | $20 per month for up to 100k pageviews |
| Free plan | 1 website and up to 3,000 daily page views, with 30 days of history and no premium features. | 1 user, 5 websites and unlimited pageviews under a fair-use policy, with 1 month of history and a badge required. |
| Free trial | 21-day free trial of premium service for up to 3 websites and 1,000,000 daily page views | 14-day free trial of all features, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Roxr Software Ltd | Simple Analytics B.V. |
| Price read from | clicky.com | simpleanalytics.com |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Nov 12, 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.
Simple Analytics
- The free plan keeps only the latest month of data and requires a Simple Analytics badge on the site.
- The price follows pageviews, and the paid plan includes one user; extra users are $20 a month each.
- Bills from $500 can be paid by bank transfer, with an extra 10% in banking and service fees.
- It records pageviews and events without visitor IDs, so it does not follow individual users across visits.
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.
Simple Analytics
- No cookies, no personal data
- The service says it sets no cookies, collects no personal data and creates no visitor IDs, so it does not need a consent banner.
- One-page dashboard
- Traffic is shown on a single dashboard that needs no configuration, with a public live dashboard available to view as an example.
- Run beside GA4
- Can run next to Google Analytics 4 to record pageviews and events from visitors who reject consent, so the two datasets can be compared.
- API and BI access
- A full API and exports let teams pull the data into their existing reporting tools. An MCP server and an AI assistant are also listed.
- Google Analytics import
- Historical Google Analytics data can be imported so reporting does not restart from zero after a switch.
- EU hosting
- Data is stored in the EU, with primary infrastructure in the Netherlands, and leaves it only when a customer opts into a feature such as the AI assistant.
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.
Simple Analytics
Free$0
For hobby sites: 1 user, 5 websites, the latest month of data and a required Simple Analytics badge.
Self-serve$20
per month for up to 100k pageviews
Price follows pageviews, up to 2.5M on the slider. Includes 1 user; each extra user is $20 a month. Annual billing shows 2 months free.
EnterpriseCustom
Quoted for your traffic, sites, data access and support needs; tied to a 30-day proof of concept run alongside GA4.
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.
Simple Analytics
- Annual discount
2 months free on annual billing
The pricing page shows an annual payment option labelled 2 months free; the yearly total depends on the pageview limit you pick.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Clicky or Simple Analytics?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Clicky is cheaper to start with: $9.99 a month, against $20 a month for Simple Analytics. Clicky starts at $9.99 per month, billed monthly ($79.99 billed yearly), and Simple Analytics starts at $20 per month for up to 100k pageviews.
Which has a free plan, Clicky or Simple Analytics?
As of Nov 12, 2026, both Clicky and Simple Analytics have a free plan.
Which platforms do Clicky and Simple Analytics run on?
As of Nov 12, 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.