# Cabin review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Cookieless web analytics with carbon-emissions reporting Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Cabin is a hosted web analytics service that does not use cookies, log IP addresses or build visitor profiles, so it says no consent banner is needed. It reports pageviews, referrers, scroll depth, AI traffic and the estimated CO2 emissions of a site, and it connects to AI assistants through MCP. - **Category:** Website & Product Analytics - **Made by:** Cabin - **Website:** https://withcabin.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: 1 domain, 10,000 pageviews and 30 days of data. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Cabin has a free plan, and paid plans start at $14 per month. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 1 domain, 10,000 pageviews a month, 30 days of data retention, public dashboards and data export. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 1 domain, 10,000 pageviews a month, 30 days retention, public dashboards, MCP access and data export. | | Plus | $14 per month | 10 domains, 100,000 pageviews a month, 12 months retention, custom events, API access and sharing with 2 people. | | Scale | $45 per month | Unlimited domains, 5,000,000 pageviews a month, unlimited retention, branded client dashboards and priority support. | Read from https://withcabin.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Cabin before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Yearly billing saves two months** (Annual discount): Cabin's pricing page and FAQ say yearly billing saves two months compared with paying monthly. Monthly prices are shown on the page. Source: https://withcabin.com/pricing ## Key features - **Cookieless tracking:** No cookies, IP address logging or fingerprints; the vendor says it is GDPR, CCPA and ePrivacy compliant by default. - **Carbon footprint reporting:** Calculates transferred data and CO2 emissions for a site from real visitor data. Carbon reporting is listed on Plus and above. - **AI traffic and MCP access:** Shows which AI assistants and crawlers read a site without counting them as pageviews. MCP access works on every plan. - **Scroll depth:** Shows how far down each page people read and where they stop. - **Public and password-protected dashboards:** Every plan can share a public dashboard link; password protection is listed on Plus and above. - **Search Console integration:** Plus and Scale connect Google Search Console and add weekly email reports. ## Good for - Freelancers and small sites that want a simple Google Analytics replacement - Agencies sharing client-ready dashboards on the Scale plan - Teams that care about website carbon reporting ## Worth knowing - The Free plan covers 1 domain, 10,000 pageviews a month and 30 days of data. - Custom events, API access, Search Console and carbon reporting need Plus at $14 a month. - The vendor says it will not stop recording traffic if you exceed your allowance, but asks you to upgrade; more than 5M pageviews means contacting sales. - Data is stored in the EU, per the site footer. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Cabin is cookieless web analytics with carbon reporting, and the free plan covers 1 site and 10,000 pageviews. Custom events, API access and Search Console need Plus at $14 a month. The free plan keeps only 30 days of data. - **Value for money: B.** $14 a month for Plus, below the category's cheapest-quarter start of $16.58. - **Free plan and trial: B.** Free forever for 1 domain and 10,000 pageviews a month, with public dashboards and export. One site owner can live on that. - **Features: B.** Cookieless tracking, carbon reporting, scroll depth, dashboards, Search Console and AI traffic reporting. The listing shows no gap in the core job. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You add a script to your site. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with Google Search Console, Claude, Cursor, Codex and ChatGPT connections and an API on paid plans. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Cabin'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 - Cabin's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 49 of the 58 other website and product analytics tools we grade, and level with 3. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 42 of 58) and worst on ease of use (C, above 3). - Its paid plans start at $14 a month, against a middle price of $29 for the category: 8 of the 32 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 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.** The plain part of Cabin you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 5 things listed below take a company, not a weekend. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.8 is higher than 49 of the 58 other website and product analytics tools we grade. It costs $168 a year. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: A tracking script and a database that counts every visit. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Search Console, Claude and Cursor among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. - You could not: Sharing with other people, which means accounts and invitations. - You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Google Search Console, Claude, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT **Tags:** Web analytics, Reports, Public API, AI features ## Alternatives - [Plausible](https://toolgpa.com/tools/plausible): Cookie-free, privacy-first website analytics made and hosted in the EU. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cabin-vs-plausible) - [Fathom Analytics](https://toolgpa.com/tools/fathom-analytics): Cookie-free, privacy-first website analytics priced by pageviews. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cabin-vs-fathom-analytics) - [Simple Analytics](https://toolgpa.com/tools/simple-analytics): Cookieless web analytics hosted in the EU. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cabin-vs-simple-analytics) - [Pirsch](https://toolgpa.com/tools/pirsch): Privacy-friendly web analytics hosted in Germany. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cabin-vs-pirsch) - [Google Analytics](https://toolgpa.com/tools/google-analytics): Google's free website and app analytics, with a paid 360 tier. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cabin-vs-google-analytics) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://withcabin.com/pricing - https://withcabin.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/cabin Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).