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Offen Fair Web Analytics vs Matomo: catalog facts
Offen Fair Web Analytics	Matomo
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.	Freemium Free to self-host; the hosted cloud is paid with a free trial.
Self-hosted	Web, Self-hosted
Visitors can see, delete or opt out of their data End-to-end encrypted usage data	Broad feature set close to Google Analytics Unsampled data and raw data export
Opt-in only, so it records fewer visits than other tools Uses first-party cookies	Needs PHP and MySQL or MariaDB to self-host Interface is more complex than minimal analytics tools
Self-hosted	Self-hosted, Hosted service
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: GPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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