# DataFast vs Piqo

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/compare/datafast-vs-piqo/

Every value below is read from DataFast's and Piqo's own documentation. See https://inetgeek.com/methodology/ for how.

## At a glance

| Criterion | DataFast | Piqo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Kind of free offer | Free trial | Free trial |
| What the free plan includes | 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. | The whole product for a 7-day trial, with no card; after the trial, tracking pauses until a paid plan is chosen. |
| Credit card to start | No | No |
| When the free offer ends | You can try DataFast for free for 14 days and you don't even need a credit card! | 7 days from account creation; tracking then pauses until a plan is chosen. |
| Sites or apps included | One website and one team member on Starter, the entry tier. Growth raises both to 30. | 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, LemonSqueezy, Polar, Shopify, WooCommerce, Paddle, Dodo Payments, and others. | Stripe, Paddle, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Creem and Dodo Payments. |
| AI and search crawler tracking | Supported | Supported — Reported from the server; no docs page describes the setup |
| Retention window | Three years of data retention on Starter, the entry tier; five or more on Growth. | Three years of event history on every plan. |

## 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. ([source](https://datafa.st/))
- 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.

### When the free offer ends

- DataFast: You can try DataFast for free for 14 days and you don't even need a credit card! ([source](https://datafa.st/))
- Piqo: 7 days from account creation; tracking then pauses until a plan is chosen. ([source](https://piqo.app/pricing))
- Lean: none. No documented basis to lean either way on this criterion.

### Sites or apps included

- DataFast: One website and one team member on Starter, the entry tier. Growth raises both to 30. ([source](https://datafa.st/))
- Piqo: Up to 20 websites on every plan; the monthly events are shared across them. ([source](https://piqo.app/pricing))
- Lean: 5% DataFast / 95% Piqo — proportional to the documented capacity. inetGeek's own reading, computed from the two values above by the rules at https://inetgeek.com/methodology/, not a provider claim.

### Payment providers connected

- DataFast: Stripe, LemonSqueezy, Polar, Shopify, WooCommerce, Paddle, Dodo Payments, and others. ([source](https://datafa.st/llms.txt))
- 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.

### Retention window

- DataFast: Three years of data retention on Starter, the entry tier; five or more on Growth. ([source](https://datafa.st/))
- Piqo: Three years of event history on every plan. ([source](https://piqo.app/pricing))
- Lean: 50% DataFast / 50% Piqo — proportional to the documented capacity. 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 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 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: 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.

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.

- 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.
- 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.
- Self-hostable: Piqo: Supported — Paid one-time license; the page does not call it open source
- 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 DataFast or Piqo?**

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 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.