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DataFast vs Cool Analytics

OCT 2026 audit

A comparison of DataFast and Cool Analytics 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

Our interest in DataFast

inetGeek runs DataFast. It is the analytics on the page you are reading, alongside Google Analytics, and this record was written by the people who pay for it. Nothing below is sourced differently because of that — the figures come from DataFast's own pricing page like every other record here, and the entry price is recorded as unreadable because it is, which is the least flattering thing on this page and is here anyway.

The short answer

Choose DataFast if…

Tying revenue back to the channel that produced it. DataFast connects a payment provider per website and reports revenue per visitor rather than pageviews alone, which is a different question from the one the rest of this category answers.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose Cool Analytics if…

A founder who wants each payment from a connected processor — Stripe, Dodo Payments, Polar, Paddle, Creem, Lemon Squeezy or Razorpay — credited to the visit behind it, at a flat price by monthly events, from $3 a month for 10,000 events, with data hosted in Germany.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • DataFast: You need to know the price before signing up. The pricing block lists what each plan contains and never renders the figure — it prints an empty amount and a literal NaN — so the only way to learn the cost is to start the trial.
  • Cool Analytics: You need a product you can sign up to today: Cool Analytics shows a waitlist and says early access is opening soon, offers a 7-day trial with a card on file, is hosted only, and does not state a SOC 2 or similar audit.

Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: DataFast alternatives · Cool Analytics alternatives

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

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionDataFastCool Analytics
Pricing
Free tierNoNo
Kind of free offerFree trialFree trial
What the free plan includesNothing standing — the only free access is a 14-day trial with no card. The entry Starter tier, once paid for, lists 10,000 monthly events, one website, one team member and three years of data retention.A 7-day free trial of the paid plan with every feature; the pages describe no standing free plan.
Credit card to start
No
Yes
When the free offer endsYou can try DataFast for free for 14 days and you don't even need a credit card!7 days from the start of the trial; the card on file is then charged unless the plan is cancelled.
Entry paid planNot readable. The pricing block renders its plan contents in full and then prints "$ /month" with an empty figure and "Save $NaN" — in a headless browser, after twenty seconds, on every extraction tier this site has.From $3 a month, billed monthly, at 10k events a month on a single event-priced plan that carries every feature.
Pricing modelTraffic-based plans metered in monthly events rather than pageviews, from 10,000 to over 10 million, monthly or yearly with two months free on yearly.One plan with every feature, priced by monthly events: every pageview and every custom event sent counts as one. The price follows a traffic slider from 10k to 10M+ events a month, billed monthly or yearly (yearly gives two months free).
Limits
Sites or apps includedOne website and one team member on Starter, the entry tier. Growth raises both to 30.Grows with the monthly event size picked on the pricing slider; there are no separate plans. The default 500k-event size shows 20 websites and 5 team members, and the price table carries the count at each size.
Observability
Revenue attribution from a payment providerSupportedSupported
Payment providers connectedStripe, LemonSqueezy, Polar, Shopify, WooCommerce, Paddle, Dodo Payments, and others.Stripe, Dodo Payments, Polar, Paddle, Creem, Lemon Squeezy and Razorpay, plus an API for anything else.
Retention windowThree years of data retention on Starter, the entry tier; five or more on Growth.1 to 5 years of data history, rising with the monthly event size; the default 500k-event size shows 2 years.

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.

What the free plan includes

DataFast
Nothing standing — the only free access is a 14-day trial with no card. The entry Starter tier, once paid for, lists 10,000 monthly events, one website, one team member and three years of data retention.
Cool Analytics
A 7-day free trial of the paid plan with every feature; the pages describe no standing free plan.
Sources (2) →

Credit card to start

DataFast
No
Cool Analytics
Yes
Sources (2) →

When the free offer ends

DataFast
You can try DataFast for free for 14 days and you don't even need a credit card!
Cool Analytics
7 days from the start of the trial; the card on file is then charged unless the plan is cancelled.
Sources (2) →

Entry paid plan

DataFast
Not readable. The pricing block renders its plan contents in full and then prints "$ /month" with an empty figure and "Save $NaN" — in a headless browser, after twenty seconds, on every extraction tier this site has.
Cool Analytics
From $3 a month, billed monthly, at 10k events a month on a single event-priced plan that carries every feature.
Sources (2) →

Pricing model

DataFast
Traffic-based plans metered in monthly events rather than pageviews, from 10,000 to over 10 million, monthly or yearly with two months free on yearly.
Cool Analytics
One plan with every feature, priced by monthly events: every pageview and every custom event sent counts as one. The price follows a traffic slider from 10k to 10M+ events a month, billed monthly or yearly (yearly gives two months free).
Sources (2) →

Sites or apps included

DataFast
One website and one team member on Starter, the entry tier. Growth raises both to 30.
Cool Analytics
Grows with the monthly event size picked on the pricing slider; there are no separate plans. The default 500k-event size shows 20 websites and 5 team members, and the price table carries the count at each size.
Sources (2) →

Payment providers connected

DataFast
Stripe, LemonSqueezy, Polar, Shopify, WooCommerce, Paddle, Dodo Payments, and others.
Cool Analytics
Stripe, Dodo Payments, Polar, Paddle, Creem, Lemon Squeezy and Razorpay, plus an API for anything else.
Sources (2) →

Retention window

DataFast
Three years of data retention on Starter, the entry tier; five or more on Growth.
Cool Analytics
1 to 5 years of data history, rising with the monthly event size; the default 500k-event size shows 2 years.
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.

Works without cookiesCool Analytics: Supported — A random visitor ID is kept in browser local storage
AI and search crawler trackingDataFast: Supported
Self-hostableCool Analytics: Not supported
GDPR / data residencyCool Analytics: Data is stored in the EU (Germany) on Hetzner servers; support and maintenance access from India relies on Standard Contractual Clauses.DataFast: not stated on its own page when read on 2026-09-21 — corrections welcome · every such claim about DataFast.
Encryption at restCool Analytics: The DPA lists encryption at rest only for payment provider keys, with HTTPS in transit everywhere; it does not say stored visit data is encrypted at rest.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: DataFast or Cool Analytics?

DataFast: Not readable. The pricing block renders its plan contents in full and then prints "$ /month" with an empty figure and "Save $NaN" — in a headless browser, after twenty seconds, on every extraction tier this site has.

Cool Analytics: From $3 a month, billed monthly, at 10k events a month on a single event-priced plan that carries every feature.

Should I choose DataFast or Cool Analytics?

Pick DataFast if Tying revenue back to the channel that produced it. DataFast connects a payment provider per website and reports revenue per visitor rather than pageviews alone, which is a different question from the one the rest of this category answers.

Pick Cool Analytics if A founder who wants each payment from a connected processor — Stripe, Dodo Payments, Polar, Paddle, Creem, Lemon Squeezy or Razorpay — credited to the visit behind it, at a flat price by monthly events, from $3 a month for 10,000 events, with data hosted in Germany.

Provider pages

DataFastRevenue-first website analytics that connects a payment provider per site and attributes revenue to marketing channels, priced by monthly events.Cool AnalyticsHosted-only web analytics that links each payment from a connected payment provider to the visit behind it, priced by monthly events.

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Comments

Every page here is sourced and dated.