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DataBull vs Piqo

OCT 2026 audit

A comparison of DataBull and Piqo built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 16 criteria compared

The short answer

Choose 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.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose 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.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • 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.
  • 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.

Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: DataBull alternatives · Piqo alternatives

5 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionDataBullPiqo
Pricing
Free tierNoNo
Kind of free offerNo free offerFree trial
What the free plan includesNone 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.
Limits
Sites or apps includedUnlimited 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.
Observability
Revenue attribution from a payment providerSupportedSupported
Payment providers connectedStripe, 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-hostableSupportedSupported — Paid one-time license; the page does not call it open source

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Kind of free offer

DataBull
No free offer
Piqo
Free trial
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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.
Piqo
The whole product for a 7-day trial, with no card; after the trial, tracking pauses until a paid plan is chosen.
Sources (2) →

Sites or apps included

DataBull
Unlimited websites and events on the license, each website connected to its own payment account.
Piqo
Up to 20 websites on every plan; the monthly events are shared across them.
Sources (2) →

Payment providers connected

DataBull
Stripe, Polar and Dodo Payments, each connected per website.
Piqo
Stripe, Paddle, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Creem and Dodo Payments.
Sources (2) →

AI and search crawler tracking

DataBull
Limited — Bots counted separately as one total; no AI-crawler breakdown stated
Piqo
Supported — Reported from the server; no docs page describes the setup
Sources (2) →

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03.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.

Credit card to startPiqo: No
When the free offer endsPiqo: 7 days from account creation; tracking then pauses until a plan is chosen.
Entry paid planDataBull: $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 modelDataBull: 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 cookiesDataBull: 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 windowPiqo: Three years of event history on every plan.
GDPR / data residencyDataBull: 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 restPiqo: Stated in the Data Processing Agreement: all data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest.
04.

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.

Provider pages

DataBullRevenue-first analytics that ties Stripe, Polar and Dodo sales to the post, search or link that brought the buyer, sold as a one-time license and run on your own Cloudflare.PiqoWeb analytics that credits each payment from a connected payment provider to the visit that brought it, with plans sized by events a month.

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Comments

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