# DataBull vs Piqo Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/compare/databull-vs-piqo/ Every value below is read from DataBull's and Piqo's own documentation. See https://inetgeek.com/methodology/ for how. ## At a glance | Criterion | DataBull | Piqo | | --- | --- | --- | | Free tier | No | No | | Kind of free offer | No free offer | Free trial | | What the free plan includes | None today. There is a live demo, but no trial or free plan; a hosted plan with a free tier is listed as coming soon. The license is non-refundable. | The whole product for a 7-day trial, with no card; after the trial, tracking pauses until a paid plan is chosen. | | Sites or apps included | Unlimited websites and events on the license, each website connected to its own payment account. | Up to 20 websites on every plan; the monthly events are shared across them. | | Revenue attribution from a payment provider | Supported | Supported | | Payment providers connected | Stripe, Polar and Dodo Payments, each connected per website. | Stripe, Paddle, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Creem and Dodo Payments. | | AI and search crawler tracking | Limited — Bots counted separately as one total; no AI-crawler breakdown stated | Supported — Reported from the server; no docs page describes the setup | | Self-hostable | Supported | Supported — Paid one-time license; the page does not call it open source | ## Where they differ ### Kind of free offer - DataBull: No free offer ([source](https://databull.app/)) - Piqo: Free trial ([source](https://piqo.app/pricing)) - Lean: none. No documented basis to lean either way on this criterion. ### What the free plan includes - DataBull: None today. There is a live demo, but no trial or free plan; a hosted plan with a free tier is listed as coming soon. The license is non-refundable. ([source](https://databull.app/)) - Piqo: The whole product for a 7-day trial, with no card; after the trial, tracking pauses until a paid plan is chosen. ([source](https://piqo.app/pricing)) - Lean: none. No documented basis to lean either way on this criterion. ### Sites or apps included - DataBull: Unlimited websites and events on the license, each website connected to its own payment account. ([source](https://databull.app/)) - Piqo: Up to 20 websites on every plan; the monthly events are shared across them. ([source](https://piqo.app/pricing)) - Lean: none. No documented basis to lean either way on this criterion. ### Payment providers connected - DataBull: Stripe, Polar and Dodo Payments, each connected per website. ([source](https://databull.app/docs/revenue)) - Piqo: Stripe, Paddle, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Creem and Dodo Payments. ([source](https://piqo.app/features)) - Lean: none. No documented basis to lean either way on this criterion. ### AI and search crawler tracking - DataBull: Limited — Bots counted separately as one total; no AI-crawler breakdown stated ([source](https://databull.app/docs/attribution)) - Piqo: Supported — Reported from the server; no docs page describes the setup ([source](https://piqo.app/features)) - Lean: 36% DataBull / 64% Piqo — documented support level. inetGeek's own reading, computed from the two values above by the rules at https://inetgeek.com/methodology/, not a provider claim. ## Which should you choose? Pick DataBull if A founder who sells through Stripe, Polar or Dodo and wants each sale credited to the post, search or link that brought the buyer. It is $49 once at the current launch price, rising to $99, with unlimited websites and events, run on your own Cloudflare account. Pick Piqo if A founder who wants each payment from a connected processor — Stripe, Paddle, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Creem or Dodo Payments — credited to the visit that brought it, with AI crawlers counted from the server and up to 20 sites on every plan. Consider something else: DataBull — You want a monthly plan, a trial or a refund. The license is one-time and non-refundable, its price has risen from $29 to $49 and goes to $99 as licenses sell, and the hosted monthly plan is listed as coming soon. If revenue attribution is not the point, Plausible starts at $9 a month with a free trial. Consider something else: Piqo — You need a settled price or privacy position. Piqo's pricing page, terms, privacy policy and data-processing page disagree on plan prices, on whether a cookie is set by default and on whether data sits in Germany or Singapore, and the record shows each conflict rather than choosing between them. ## Documented by only one One side documents these and the other does not. An absence is a missing source, not a stated "no" — except where a line says the other page was READ on a date and does not mention it, which is a sourced observation and the only one-sided case this site leans on. - Credit card to start: Piqo: No - When the free offer ends: Piqo: 7 days from account creation; tracking then pauses until a plan is chosen. - Entry paid plan: DataBull: $49 one time for a self-hosted lifetime license, the current step of a launch price that rises as licenses sell: $29 for the first 40 (sold), $49 for the next 20, then $69 and $99. No monthly fee to DataBull; a hosted monthly plan is listed as coming soon. - Pricing model: DataBull: One-time lifetime license with every future update included, sold at stepped launch prices ($29 for the first 40 licenses, now $49, then $69 and $99). It runs on the buyer's own Cloudflare account, where the page says the free plan covers most sites and very busy sites need the $5/month Workers plan, paid to Cloudflare. - Works without cookies: DataBull: Optional, chosen per website: first-party cookies for the best attribution, fully cookieless with a daily-rotating salted hash, or cookieless until the site's banner reports consent. - Retention window: Piqo: Three years of event history on every plan. - GDPR / data residency: DataBull: Self-hosted: visitors, sales and keys stay in the buyer's own Cloudflare account and never touch DataBull's servers. No data is sold or shared. The page makes no region or GDPR-compliance claim beyond the cookie options. - Encryption at rest: Piqo: Stated in the Data Processing Agreement: all data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest. ## Questions this comparison answers **Should I choose DataBull or Piqo?** Pick DataBull if A founder who sells through Stripe, Polar or Dodo and wants each sale credited to the post, search or link that brought the buyer. It is $49 once at the current launch price, rising to $99, with unlimited websites and events, run on your own Cloudflare account. Pick Piqo if A founder who wants each payment from a connected processor — Stripe, Paddle, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Creem or Dodo Payments — credited to the visit that brought it, with AI crawlers counted from the server and up to 20 sites on every plan.