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DataFast vs Piqo

OCT 2026 audit

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

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 14 criteria compared

Our interest in DataFast

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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 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…

  • 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.
  • 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: DataFast alternatives · Piqo alternatives

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

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionDataFastPiqo
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.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 startNoNo
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 account creation; tracking then pauses until a plan is chosen.
Limits
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.
Observability
Revenue attribution from a payment providerSupportedSupported
Payment providers connectedStripe, LemonSqueezy, Polar, Shopify, WooCommerce, Paddle, Dodo Payments, and others.Stripe, Paddle, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Creem and Dodo Payments.
AI and search crawler trackingSupportedSupported — 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.

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.
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) →

When the free offer ends

DataFast
You can try DataFast for free for 14 days and you don't even need a credit card!
Piqo
7 days from account creation; tracking then pauses until a plan is chosen.
Sources (2) →

Sites or apps included

DataFast

One website and one team member on Starter, the entry tier. Growth raises both to 30.

Piqo

Up to 20 websites on every plan; the monthly events are shared across them.

Sources (2) →
  • DataFast ↗

    “10k monthly events 1 website 1 team member 3 years of data retention 100K AI bot requests”

    Read 2026-09-15 · official pricing · Report a correction

  • Pricing · Piqo Analytics ↗

    “Every plan has every feature, up to 20 websites and 3 years of data. [...] Yes, up to 20 on every plan. Your events are shared across them”

    Read 2026-10-25 · official pricing · Report a correction

Payment providers connected

DataFast
Stripe, LemonSqueezy, Polar, Shopify, WooCommerce, Paddle, Dodo Payments, and others.
Piqo
Stripe, Paddle, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Creem and Dodo Payments.
Sources (2) →

Retention window

DataFast

Three years of data retention on Starter, the entry tier; five or more on Growth.

Piqo

Three years of event history on every plan.

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.

Entry paid planDataFast: 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 modelDataFast: 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-hostablePiqo: Supported — Paid one-time license; the page does not call it open source
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 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.

Provider pages

DataFastRevenue-first website analytics that connects a payment provider per site and attributes revenue to marketing channels, priced by monthly events.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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