# Ackee review (2026): is it any good? > Self-hosted, cookie-free analytics you run on your own server Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Ackee is a Node.js analytics tool that you install on your own server. It records views, referrers, durations and device details for as many domains as you like, without cookies or unique-user tracking, and exposes the data through a GraphQL API. - **Category:** Website & Product Analytics - **Made by:** Ackee (electerious) - **Website:** https://ackee.electerious.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want someone else to host it: there's no hosted version. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Ackee is free to use. - **Pricing model:** Free - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Self-hosted | $0 | Open-source software you install and run on your own server; hosting costs are yours. | Read from https://ackee.electerious.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Ackee before buying. ## Key features - **Multiple domains:** The vendor says there is no limit on the number of domains or apps you can analyze from one installation. - **Views, referrers and durations:** Insights cover amount of visits, visit duration, referrers, language, screen dimensions, operating system, browser and device. - **Anonymized tracking:** No cookies and no unique user tracking; a multi-step process anonymizes tracked data. - **GraphQL API:** A central GraphQL API lets you pull data into your own interface or collect it from other services and apps. - **Docker and manual installs:** The Get started guide covers deploying with Docker, Heroku, Netlify or manually. ## Good for - Developers comfortable running a Node.js service - Sites that want traffic stats kept on their own server ## Worth knowing - There is no hosted version on the site: you install, host and update Ackee yourself. - The interface is deliberately minimal, with few charts and filters. - The website lists no paid support plans. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Ackee is open-source analytics you install on your own server, with views, referrers and durations in a minimal screen. It's free, and it uses no cookies. But there's no hosted version, so you install and update it yourself, and the charts and filters are few. - **Value for money: C.** Free software, but only free if you host it yourself, and the ladder puts that at the middle. The server bill is yours. - **Free plan and trial: B.** No fees at all and no caps, but you need your own server. - **Features: C.** Views, referrers, durations, several domains and a GraphQL API. It does that job fully, a smaller job than most analytics tools. - **Ease of use: D.** Docker or manual install on your own server, and you run the updates. No store rating. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** A web dashboard with a GraphQL API. No integrations named. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Ackee's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among website and product analytics tools - Ackee's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 13 of the 58 other website and product analytics tools we grade, and level with 4. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 40 of 58) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0). - Ackee has no paid plan. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 1.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/analytics ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Ackee is free, so making your own would save you nothing. And it is not the kind of software a weekend replaces. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 41 of the 58 other website and product analytics tools grade higher. - You could not: A tracking script and a database that counts every visit. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Web analytics, Open source, Self-hostable, Public API ## Alternatives - [Umami](https://toolgpa.com/tools/umami): Open-source, cookieless web and product analytics. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ackee-vs-umami) - [GoatCounter](https://toolgpa.com/tools/goatcounter): Open source web analytics, free and donation-supported. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ackee-vs-goatcounter) - [Plausible](https://toolgpa.com/tools/plausible): Cookie-free, privacy-first website analytics made and hosted in the EU. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ackee-vs-plausible) - [Matomo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/matomo): Open-source web analytics you can host yourself or in Matomo's cloud. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ackee-vs-matomo) - [Offen](https://toolgpa.com/tools/offen): Open-source, self-hosted web analytics with user data access. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ackee-vs-offen) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://ackee.electerious.com - https://github.com/electerious/Ackee Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/ackee Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).