Counter.dev vs Tinylytics (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Counter.dev if

• Fits if you only want a daily visitor count and referrers
• Works for hobby sites where cookie banners are unwelcome

Look elsewhere if

• Too light for anyone who needs funnels, events or goals
• Not for you if you want published plan limits: the site shows none
• Watch out: tracking code appears only after you create an account
• Skip it if you need support, as none is described

Pick Tinylytics if

• Fits if you run a couple of small sites and want stats and uptime checks cheaply
• Works for a hobbyist who wants a public stats page

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want a free plan, as only the 14-day trial is free
• Too light for SEO audits, team access or spike alerts on Zen, which are Ultra at $29
• Tight if a site passes 1 million hits a month, since fair-usage terms apply and the vendor may contact you
• Watch out: pricing is read from the homepage, as there's no pricing page

Counter.dev

• The site shows no pricing page or plan limits; payment is described only as optional and made when you are ready.
• The vendor says it keeps things simple and shows only the basics, so there is no feature comparison with larger tools.
• Sign-up and tracking code are found after creating an account on counter.dev.

Tinylytics

• There is no free plan; only the 14-day trial is free.
• Fair-usage terms apply above 1 million hits a month, and the vendor may contact heavy sites.
• SEO audits, team access, site groups, spike alerts and password-protected public stats are Ultra only.
• Pricing is read from the homepage; the site has no separate pricing page.

Counter.dev

Unique visitors per day

Metrics are based on the number of unique visitors per day rather than a per-visitor profile.

Referrals

Shows which other websites link to your site and send visitors to it.

No cookies or IP fingerprinting

The vendor says it uses no cookies, keeps no logs and does no IP address fingerprinting.

Live demo dashboard

A demo dashboard can be opened from the homepage before signing up.

Open-source code

The frontend, backend and services are published on GitHub under the AGPL-v3 license.

Tinylytics

Cookie-free analytics

Counts visits, not people: no cookies, fingerprinting or cross-site tracking. Unique hits use rotating salts, and data is hosted in Europe.

Uptime and SSL monitoring

Checks a site from several regions every 10 minutes and emails when it goes down, returns or has a certificate problem. Ultra can check as often as every minute.

Content checks

Crawls pages on a schedule to flag broken links and mixed content. Ultra can add AI spell checking of visible page text.

Events

A data attribute on any button, link or form records clicks, downloads and sign-ups next to page views, with no tag manager.

Insights, reports and public stats

Opt-in traffic insights, a weekly email report and public stats pages, plus filtering by date, path, referrer, country, browser and platform.

Webhooks, API and export

Real-time webhooks for hits, kudos and monitoring events with signed payloads, a full API and CSV export of all data.

Counter.dev

• Free$0

  The vendor offers the service free to everyone and says you can start paying whenever you want.

Tinylytics

• Zen$7

  per month for up to 2 sites ($70 billed yearly)

  Every feature except the Ultra extras, on 2 sites, with unlimited hits and history.

• Pro$14

  per month for up to 20 sites ($140 billed yearly)

  The same features as Zen on up to 20 sites, with unlimited hits and history.

• Ultra$29

  per month for up to 50 sites ($290 billed yearly)

  Adds SEO audits, team access, site groups, spike alerts, spell checking and password-protected public stats.

Counter.dev

No public discounts listed.

Tinylytics

• Annual discount

  Two months free with yearly billing

  Yearly prices of $70, $140 and $290 are listed beside the monthly $7, $14 and $29, which equals ten months of the monthly rate.