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Q06: What is the cheapest privacy-focused analytics tool for a website with about 50,000 monthly visitors?

OpenAI Responses API + web_search, model gpt-6-luna, requested 2026-10-31T15:41:16Z, 9.14 s, intent: recommendation

Not mentionedNot recommendedNot linked

Stored answer

**Cheapest: self-host Umami—it’s free software**, so your only cost is the server you run it on. If you’d rather not manage hosting, **Umami Cloud’s free plan** includes one website and up to **100,000 events per month**. Each pageview counts as an event, so it may not cover 50,000 visitors if they view multiple pages; custom events and stored event properties also count. ([umami.is](https://umami.is/pricing?utm_source=openai)) For a **paid hosted option with room for more traffic**, Fathom is **$15/month for up to 100,000 pageviews**. ([usefathom.com](https://usefathom.com/pricing?utm_source=openai)) **Bottom line:** Try Umami Cloud free if your monthly pageviews stay under 100,000; self-host Umami if you want to avoid a usage cap and don’t mind maintaining it. “50,000 visitors” alone isn’t enough to know whether the free cloud tier will fit—monthly pageviews are the key number. ([umami.is](https://umami.is/pricing?utm_source=openai))

Marked yellow: the target brand; underlined: competitors, as found by the matching rules in targets.yaml. The text is exactly what the API returned.

What the rules extracted

Brand	Named	Recommended (rule)	Own site cited
Plausible (target)	no	no	no
Fathom	yes x3	no	yes
Simple Analytics	no	no	no
Matomo	no	no	no
Umami	yes x8	no	yes
GA4 (Google Analytics)	no	no	no

Ordered list: no; bullet list: no; table: no. No ranking is inferred from list order.
No brand in the set recommended (rule-based): yes.
No URLs cited in the answer: no.
Target domain cited in the answer: no; among all sources the engine consulted: no.

Search queries the engine issued

privacy focused website analytics pricing 50,000 monthly pageviews Plausible Fathom Simple Analytics Umami 2026
site:plausible.io pricing 50k monthly pageviews
site:usefathom.com pricing 50,000 pageviews analytics
site:umami.is pricing cloud 50k events
site:umami.is/pricing Umami Cloud 100,000 events free 2026
site:umami.is "100,000 events" pricing
site:pirsch.io/pricing 50,000 pageviews price

URLs cited in the answer (2)

Links the engine attached to its answer text.

Domain	Page
umami.is	Pricing – Umami https://umami.is/pricing
usefathom.com	Pricing — plans from $15/month - Fathom Analytics https://usefathom.com/pricing

Other sources the engine consulted (39)

Returned by the search step but not attached to the answer text.

Domain	Page
tracker.kimsalmi.com	https://tracker.kimsalmi.com/pricing/web-analytics https://tracker.kimsalmi.com/pricing/web-analytics
measr.app	https://measr.app/compare/privacy-analytics/ https://measr.app/compare/privacy-analytics/
spreelytics.com	https://spreelytics.com/blog/web-analytics-pricing-compared https://spreelytics.com/blog/web-analytics-pricing-compared
antlytics.com	https://www.antlytics.com/blog/privacy-analytics-tools-2026 https://www.antlytics.com/blog/privacy-analytics-tools-2026
businessmcp.com	https://businessmcp.com/compare/cookieless-analytics-tools https://businessmcp.com/compare/cookieless-analytics-tools
zerodeploy.dev	https://zerodeploy.dev/analytics/best-privacy-analytics https://zerodeploy.dev/analytics/best-privacy-analytics
verlua.com	https://www.verlua.com/blog/cookieless-analytics-small-business https://www.verlua.com/blog/cookieless-analytics-small-business
privatrak.com	https://privatrak.com/blog/cookieless-analytics-tools https://privatrak.com/blog/cookieless-analytics-tools
stackcompare.net	https://stackcompare.net/plausible-vs-fathom-vs-umami-2026-privacy-analytics-pricing-compa https://stackcompare.net/plausible-vs-fathom-vs-umami-2026-privacy-analytics-pricing-compared/
statscheap.com	https://statscheap.com/plausible-vs-umami-vs-fathom/ https://statscheap.com/plausible-vs-umami-vs-fathom/
insg.io	https://insg.io/blog/privacy-first-analytics-tools-compared/ https://insg.io/blog/privacy-first-analytics-tools-compared/
a-propos-travel.com	https://www.a-propos-travel.com/media/pages/mentions-legales/eb01412c09-1704352415/plausib https://www.a-propos-travel.com/media/pages/mentions-legales/eb01412c09-1704352415/plausible-privacy-focused-g
creativeconcern.com	https://creativeconcern.com/sites/default/files/101-good-ways-of-practising-responsible-co https://creativeconcern.com/sites/default/files/101-good-ways-of-practising-responsible-communication.pdf
wpdemo.net	https://wpdemo.net/pdf/plausible-analytics-p1508.pdf https://wpdemo.net/pdf/plausible-analytics-p1508.pdf
reddit.com	https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1u7ilsq/analytics_tool_for_smaller_website/ https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1u7ilsq/analytics_tool_for_smaller_website/
reddit.com	https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/lxj0gi https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/lxj0gi
reddit.com	https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1erxdte https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/1erxdte
reddit.com	https://www.reddit.com/r/umamiengine/comments/1vmocs0/umami_analytics_vs_plausible_analyti https://www.reddit.com/r/umamiengine/comments/1vmocs0/umami_analytics_vs_plausible_analytics_which_is/
reddit.com	https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1tn50zk/moving_off_google_analytics_in_2026_wha https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1tn50zk/moving_off_google_analytics_in_2026_what_are/
reddit.com	https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1v57bjs/anybody_able_to_offer_some_insights_into/ https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1v57bjs/anybody_able_to_offer_some_insights_into/
reddit.com	https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1s8z4lw/alternatives_to_google_analytics/ https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1s8z4lw/alternatives_to_google_analytics/
reddit.com	https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1t7vouj/removed/ https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1t7vouj/removed/
reddit.com	https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1nozxdn https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1nozxdn
reddit.com	https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1gz5nfg https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1gz5nfg
reddit.com	https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1n8c1d7/analytics_is_the_most_overpriced_category_i https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1n8c1d7/analytics_is_the_most_overpriced_category_in_saas/
reddit.com	https://www.reddit.com/r/microsaas/comments/1v4v0at/has_anyone_here_used_umami_analytics_i https://www.reddit.com/r/microsaas/comments/1v4v0at/has_anyone_here_used_umami_analytics_in_production/
en.wikipedia.org	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_Analytics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_Analytics
pirsch.io	https://pirsch.io/pricing https://pirsch.io/pricing
docs.umami.is	https://docs.umami.is/docs/cloud/subscription https://docs.umami.is/docs/cloud/subscription
docs.umami.is	https://docs.umami.is/docs/cloud https://docs.umami.is/docs/cloud
umami.is	https://umami.is/product-analytics https://umami.is/product-analytics
forum.pirsch.io	https://forum.pirsch.io/t/how-do-i-upgrade-my-subscription/197 https://forum.pirsch.io/t/how-do-i-upgrade-my-subscription/197
docs.pirsch.io	https://docs.pirsch.io/privacy https://docs.pirsch.io/privacy
umami.is	https://umami.is/compare/fathom https://umami.is/compare/fathom
pirsch.io	https://pirsch.io/de/news https://pirsch.io/de/news
umami.is	https://umami.is/ https://umami.is/
docs.umami.is	https://docs.umami.is/docs https://docs.umami.is/docs
docs.umami.is	https://docs.umami.is/docs/cloud/sign-up https://docs.umami.is/docs/cloud/sign-up
pirsch.io	https://pirsch.io/static/files/Data%20Processing%20Agreement%20-%20Pirsch%20Analytics.pdf https://pirsch.io/static/files/Data%20Processing%20Agreement%20-%20Pirsch%20Analytics.pdf

Record

Raw API response (unmodified JSON inside a small envelope): raw/20261031T154115Z/openai__q06.json
SHA-256 of the stored file: 8904bcf7f4182c77... (verified when this page was built: yes)
Tokens in/out: 19019 / 554; search calls: 2; estimated cost $0.0218
Settings: {"endpoint": "https://api.openai.com/v1/responses", "tools": ["web_search"], "reasoning_effort": "low", "max_output_tokens": 6000, "store": false, "user_location": "not set", "system_instructions": "none", "temperature": "not settable on this model; API default"}