# Piqo vs Cool Analytics

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/compare/piqo-vs-cool-analytics/

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

## At a glance

| Criterion | Piqo | Cool Analytics |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Kind of free offer | Free trial | Free trial |
| What the free plan includes | The whole product for a 7-day trial, with no card; after the trial, tracking pauses until a paid plan is chosen. | 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 ends | 7 days from account creation; tracking then pauses until a plan is chosen. | 7 days from the start of the trial; the card on file is then charged unless the plan is cancelled. |
| Sites or apps included | Up to 20 websites on every plan; the monthly events are shared across them. | 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. |
| Revenue attribution from a payment provider | Supported | Supported |
| Payment providers connected | Stripe, Paddle, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Creem and Dodo Payments. | Stripe, Dodo Payments, Polar, Paddle, Creem, Lemon Squeezy and Razorpay, plus an API for anything else. |
| Retention window | Three years of event history on every plan. | 1 to 5 years of data history, rising with the monthly event size; the default 500k-event size shows 2 years. |
| Self-hostable | Supported — Paid one-time license; the page does not call it open source | Not supported |
| Encryption at rest | Stated in the Data Processing Agreement: all data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest. | 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. |

## Where they differ

### What the free plan includes

- 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))
- Cool Analytics: A 7-day free trial of the paid plan with every feature; the pages describe no standing free plan. ([source](https://coolanalytics.dev/terms))
- Lean: none. No documented basis to lean either way on this criterion.

### Credit card to start

- Piqo: No ([source](https://piqo.app/pricing))
- Cool Analytics: Yes ([source](https://coolanalytics.dev/terms))
- Lean: 78% Piqo / 22% Cool Analytics — whether it is required at all (not requiring it is better). inetGeek's own reading, computed from the two values above by the rules at https://inetgeek.com/methodology/, not a provider claim.

### When the free offer ends

- Piqo: 7 days from account creation; tracking then pauses until a plan is chosen. ([source](https://piqo.app/pricing))
- Cool Analytics: 7 days from the start of the trial; the card on file is then charged unless the plan is cancelled. ([source](https://coolanalytics.dev/terms))
- Lean: 50% Piqo / 50% Cool Analytics — 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.

### Sites or apps included

- Piqo: Up to 20 websites on every plan; the monthly events are shared across them. ([source](https://piqo.app/pricing))
- 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. ([source](https://coolanalytics.dev/))
- Lean: none. No documented basis to lean either way on this criterion.

### Payment providers connected

- Piqo: Stripe, Paddle, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Creem and Dodo Payments. ([source](https://piqo.app/features))
- Cool Analytics: Stripe, Dodo Payments, Polar, Paddle, Creem, Lemon Squeezy and Razorpay, plus an API for anything else. ([source](https://coolanalytics.dev/))
- Lean: none. No documented basis to lean either way on this criterion.

### Retention window

- Piqo: Three years of event history on every plan. ([source](https://piqo.app/pricing))
- Cool Analytics: 1 to 5 years of data history, rising with the monthly event size; the default 500k-event size shows 2 years. ([source](https://coolanalytics.dev/compare/plausible))
- Lean: none. No documented basis to lean either way on this criterion.

### Self-hostable

- Piqo: Supported — Paid one-time license; the page does not call it open source ([source](https://piqo.app/self-hosted))
- Cool Analytics: Not supported ([source](https://coolanalytics.dev/compare/plausible))
- Lean: 82% Piqo / 18% Cool Analytics — 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.

### Encryption at rest

- Piqo: Stated in the Data Processing Agreement: all data is encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest. ([source](https://piqo.app/dpa))
- Cool 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. ([source](https://coolanalytics.dev/dpa))
- Lean: 64% Piqo / 36% Cool Analytics — 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 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.

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.

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.

Consider something else: 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.

## 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: Cool Analytics: From $3 a month, billed monthly, at 10k events a month on a single event-priced plan that carries every feature.
- Pricing model: 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).
- Works without cookies: Cool Analytics: Supported — A random visitor ID is kept in browser local storage
- AI and search crawler tracking: Piqo: Supported — Reported from the server; no docs page describes the setup
- GDPR / data residency: Cool Analytics: Data is stored in the EU (Germany) on Hetzner servers; support and maintenance access from India relies on Standard Contractual Clauses.

## Questions this comparison answers

**Should I choose Piqo or Cool Analytics?**

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.
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.