# Counter.dev review (2026): is it any good? > Free, open-source, cookie-free web analytics for small sites Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. Counter.dev is a web analytics service that counts unique visitors per day and shows referrals, without cookies, server logging or IP address fingerprinting. The service is free to use, and its source code is published under the AGPL-v3 license. - **Category:** Website & Product Analytics - **Made by:** Counter.dev - **Website:** https://counter.dev - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Too light for anyone who needs funnels, events or goals. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Counter.dev is free to use. - **Pricing model:** Free - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | The vendor offers the service free to everyone and says you can start paying whenever you want. | Read from https://counter.dev on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Counter.dev before buying. ## Key features - **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. ## Good for - Personal sites and small projects that need basic traffic counts - People who want an open-source tool without a paid plan ## Worth knowing - 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Counter.dev is free, open-source analytics with no cookies, and it shows unique visitors per day and referrals. That's about all it shows. There's no pricing page or plan limits, only a line that you can pay whenever you want. - **Value for money: B.** Free hosted, no server needed, with an optional payment. It covers very little, so it can't be an A. - **Free plan and trial: A.** Free to everyone, with no plan limits stated on the site. - **Features: D.** Unique visitors a day and referrals. A very narrow set of numbers. - **Ease of use: C.** No rating on record. You sign up and paste in a tracking snippet. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with open-source code. No integrations. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Counter.dev'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 - Counter.dev's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 32 of the 58 other website and product analytics tools we grade, and level with 11. - It stands best on free plan and trial (A, above 55 of 58) and worst on features (D, above 0). - Counter.dev 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.** Counter.dev is free, so making your own would save you nothing. - You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well. - You could not: A tracking script and a database that counts every visit. 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, Reports ## Alternatives - [GoatCounter](https://toolgpa.com/tools/goatcounter): Open source web analytics, free and donation-supported. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/counterdev-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/counterdev-vs-plausible) - [Umami](https://toolgpa.com/tools/umami): Open-source, cookieless web and product analytics. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/counterdev-vs-umami) - [Simple Analytics](https://toolgpa.com/tools/simple-analytics): Cookieless web analytics hosted in the EU. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/counterdev-vs-simple-analytics) - [Tinylytics](https://toolgpa.com/tools/tinylytics): Cookie-free web analytics with uptime and link checks. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/counterdev-vs-tinylytics) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://counter.dev - https://counter.dev/welcome.html - https://github.com/ihucos/counter.dev Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/counterdev Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).