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Simple Analytics vs Umami Cloud — for your app, not in general

Simple Analytics or Umami Cloud? Set your usage, budget and constraints; the verdict, monthly cost and risks update live from verified pricing.

Prices verified 2026-07-17 against official pricing pages · fit weights are our estimates (see methodology) · share the URL to share your configuration

As of Jul 2026, with 500,000 tracked events/month, a $50 budget for this slot, Umami Cloud ranks first for these inputs at 85% fit and a StackSays-estimated $20.00/month (Simple Analytics: 74% fit, $0/month). Fit weights are our estimates; prices trace to official pages. Change any input below and the verdict recomputes.

Your situation

The verdict updates as you move these.

Events or pageviews / month (thousands)500 = 500,000; pageview-billed vendors (Plausible/Fathom) count pageviews, event-billed ones count every eventBudget for this slot ($/mo)what you'd accept paying for the analytics platform layerTeam size1 = solo; bundled platforms save glue time for small teams

Clear pick for your inputs

Umami Cloudfit 85% · est $20.00/mo

Open-source analytics with a real free tier and the cheapest metered overage in the category

vs Simple Analytics: fit 85% against 74%, est $20.00 against $0 per month

Umami Cloudfit 85%

$20.00/mo

Simple Analyticsfit 74%

$0/mo

Comparing 2 tools head-to-head. Open the full field (8 options) →

The decision, in plain words

For a solo builder at 500,000 tracked events/month and a $50.00/mo budget for the analytics platform slot, Umami Cloud leads at 85% fit and $20.00/mo. The two rules doing the work: budget fit (~$20/mo is 40% of your $50/mo budget); batteries included (Bundles session replay, funnels, heatmaps — fewer services to glue at team size 1).

The gap to Simple Analytics (74% fit) is wide at these inputs — you'd need to change your requirements, not your taste, to flip it.

Honest weak spot of the pick: growing — our estimate from ecosystem age, docs and hiring pool.

Generated from the calculation above — every number traces to the sourced data; nothing here is written by an AI making things up.

Why Umami Cloud scores 85%

Budget fit (weight 30, our estimate) — ~$20/mo is 40% of your $50/mo budget+30

Batteries included (weight 12, our estimate) — Bundles session replay, funnels, heatmaps — fewer services to glue at team size 1+9

Exit cost (weight 4, our estimate) — Open source / self-hostable — data and dashboards can move with you+2.8

Ecosystem maturity (weight 8, our estimate) — growing — our estimate from ecosystem age, docs and hiring pool-1.6

Free-tier runway (weight 10, our estimate) — Free tier exists (100K events/month, 1 website, 6-month retention) — a cheap staging/dev lane even after you outgrow it+4

Total (lines sum exactly)44.2

Possible range −64…+64 (sum of active rule weights) · fit % = (total + max) / (2 × max)(44.2 + 64) / 128 = 85%

How the $20.00/mo estimate is calculated

Pro base — includes 1,000K tracked events$20.00

Note — $0.00003 per additional event (= $30 per extra 1M); 20 sites, 10 team members, 2-year retention$0

Monthly total (lines sum exactly)$20.00

What could change this verdict

Cost risk

Estimated now (StackSays estimate, not your final bill)$20.00/mo · Pro

Free-tier statusFree tier exceeded (tracked events 500K > 100K cap)

Next known billing thresholdat 1,000K tracked events, overage starts ($0.03/K)

Official prices verified 2026-07-17; calculation is deterministic code over those prices.

At a glance

Tool	Free tier	Paid entry	Verified
Umami Cloud	100K events/month, 1 website, 6-month retention	Pro $20/mo	2026-07-17
Simple Analytics	No free tier	Paid 100K $20/mo	2026-07-17

Where did you land?anonymous, one click

Data sources

Tool	Source	Verified
Umami Cloud	Umami Cloud pricing	2026-07-17
Simple Analytics	Simple Analytics pricing	2026-07-17

A monitor re-checks these pages for changes; when a vendor moves a price, the date updates and every verdict recomputes.

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