# Medama review (2026): is it any good? > Open-source, cookie-free analytics you host yourself Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Medama Analytics is an open-source website analytics server that ships as a single binary with no external database. Its tracker is under 1KB and sets no cookies and collects no IP addresses. You host it yourself, on a small VM, Docker, Fly.io or Railway, and read page view stats in its own dashboard. - **Category:** Website & Product Analytics - **Made by:** Medama - **Website:** https://oss.medama.io/introduction - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you don't want to host anything, as there's no hosted plan. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Medama is free to use. - **Pricing model:** Free - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Self-hosted | $0 | Open-source server you run yourself as a single binary or container. The documentation lists no paid edition. | Read from https://oss.medama.io/introduction on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Medama before buying. ## Key features - **Cookie-free tracking:** A tracker under 1KB that uses no cookies, IP addresses or other identifiers, which the project says supports GDPR and PECR compliance. - **Real-time page view stats:** Page view tracking is on by default once the snippet is added, with referrer, UTM source, location and time statistics. - **Custom properties:** Page events and click events can carry custom properties, so actions beyond page views can be recorded. - **Single-binary self-hosting:** No separate database to set up; the project says most small sites run on a VM with 256MB of memory. - **OpenAPI-based API:** A documented API covers login, websites, events and stat summaries for building your own dashboards. ## Good for - Developers who want a self-hosted, cookie-free analytics server - Small sites running on a low-memory VM - Projects that need a consent-banner-free tracker ## Worth knowing - It is self-hosted only on the pages read; there is no hosted plan, so you run the server and updates yourself. - The single-binary guide covers Linux and macOS; Docker images, Fly.io and Railway are the other documented routes. - Reports center on page views, referrers, UTM sources and location; no heatmaps or session recordings are listed. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Medama is a single-binary analytics server with a tracker under 1KB, no cookies and no IP addresses. It reports page views, referrers and locations only, with no hosted plan, so you run it. - **Value for money: C.** Free and open source, but only if you host it, which needs a server. - **Free plan and trial: B.** No paid edition and no limits listed, once you've deployed it yourself. - **Features: C.** Page views, referrers, UTM sources, locations and custom properties. No heatmaps or recordings, and it's a small job. - **Ease of use: D.** You run the binary or container yourself, on a VM, Docker, Fly.io or Railway. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only. Linux, macOS or containers on the server side. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Medama's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among website and product analytics tools - Medama's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 18 of the 100 other website and product analytics tools we grade, and level with 10. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 72 of 100) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0). - Medama 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.** Medama 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: 72 of the 100 other website and product analytics tools grade higher. - You could not: A tracking script and a database that counts every visit. - You could not: Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Docker, Fly.io and Railway among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Docker, Fly.io, Railway **Tags:** Web analytics, Open source, Self-hostable, Public API, Dashboards ## Alternatives - [Umami](https://toolgpa.com/tools/umami): Open-source, cookieless web and product analytics. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/medama-vs-umami) - [Plausible](https://toolgpa.com/tools/plausible): Cookie-free, privacy-first website analytics made and hosted in the EU. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/medama-vs-plausible) - [GoatCounter](https://toolgpa.com/tools/goatcounter): Open source web analytics, free and donation-supported. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/goatcounter-vs-medama) - [Counterscale](https://toolgpa.com/tools/counterscale): Self-hosted web analytics that runs on Cloudflare. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/counterscale-vs-medama) - [Ackee](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ackee): Self-hosted, cookie-free analytics you run on your own server. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ackee-vs-medama) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://oss.medama.io/introduction - https://oss.medama.io/features/page-views - https://oss.medama.io/deployment/installation - https://oss.medama.io/llms.txt Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/medama Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).