Open source alternatives to Simple Analytics

By GitHub stars it is PostHog, with 40,775 stars and a commit on 14 Nov. Choose PostHog when you want web analytics alongside session replay, product analytics and feature flags in one tool, with a self-hosted option. Next come Umami (40,124 stars) and Plausible Analytics (29,843 stars).

Yes. The code of all 12 is public under MIT, AGPL 3.0, GPL 3.0 or later or Apache 2.0, so you can use them with no licence fee. Running one yourself costs the server and your time to look after it, and some makers also sell a hosted plan.

Start from the job you use Simple Analytics for. Choose Umami when you want cookie-free analytics on your own server, with every event in your own database and no subscription to pay. Choose Plausible Analytics when you want cookie-free traffic stats that you can also run on your own server at no cost.

11 of the 12: PostHog, Umami, Plausible Analytics, Matomo, Rybbit, OpenPanel, Tianji, Open Web Analytics and 3 more. Each tool's page says what it needs to run.

11 of the 12 we track had a commit in the last 30 days, among them PostHog, Umami, Plausible Analytics and Matomo. The quietest is Litlyx, last changed on 3 Dec 2025. A recent commit shows the project is kept up, not that it will stay that way.

AGPL 3.0 (6), MIT (2), Apache 2.0 (2), GPL 3.0 or later (1), GPL 2.0 (1). MIT, BSD and Apache let you change and reuse the code freely. GPL and AGPL ask you to share your changes under the same licence when you give the software to others, and AGPL also counts letting people use it over a network.

The hosting. Simple Analytics's maker runs the servers for you; with an open source tool the updates, backups, security fixes and support are yours, unless you take the maker's hosted plan. Features differ too, so check what each one imports and exports before you move your data.