Umami and analyticshq are both open-source and cookieless. The difference is where the line is drawn: Umami v3 moved toward individual-level tracking with session replay and user profiles, while analyticshq stays aggregate-only — and rotates identity every 24 hours instead of monthly.

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analyticshq vs Umami

Open source, but strictly aggregate.

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Umami vs analyticshq

Point for point.

ID rotation window Session salt rotates monthly, visit salt hourly Per-site hash rotates every 24 hours. No monthly linkability.

Session replay & heatmaps Yes — added in v3 (replay on rrweb, heatmaps) Never. Recording individual sessions breaks aggregate-only.

Individual profiles A "Sessions" view lists and drills into individual visitors No per-person view. Reports are aggregate, full stop.

Cross-session identity identify() stitches a user’s sessions across time No identify(), no distinct-ID stitching, by design.

Geolocation Country, region, and city Country only, from CDN edge headers. IP discarded.

Open source Yes (MIT), self-hostable Yes — Postgres-native, self-hostable, Stacks-integrated.

Cookies & consent Cookieless, no banner needed Cookieless, no banner needed.

Where the two part ways.

Both are open source — the philosophy is where they split

Umami and analyticshq are both MIT-spirited and self-hostable, with cookieless defaults. The difference is the ceiling: Umami now offers individual-level tracking, analyticshq refuses to build it.

Aggregate-only, on purpose

Umami v3 shipped session replay, heatmaps, individual visitor profiles, and identify() user stitching. analyticshq deliberately will never add any of them — there is no per-person timeline to reconstruct.

A tighter identity window

Umami’s session salt rotates monthly. analyticshq rotates its per-site hash every 24 hours, so activity cannot be linked across days — a materially shorter linkability window.

24h

ID rotation window, versus Umami’s monthly session salt.

Session recordings, heatmaps, or individual profiles — ever.

Country

Geo granularity. No region or city is stored.

Aggregate by principle, not by default.

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