statpx vs Umami: Which Analytics Tool Is Right for You?

Two Different Approaches to Analytics

statpx and Umami are both privacy-friendly, cookie-free alternatives to Google Analytics, but they take fundamentally different approaches. Umami is open-source software you run yourself; statpx is fully hosted SaaS. That one difference shapes everything downstream — who's responsible for hosting, how deep the feature set goes, and how the cost structure works.

Hosting: Your Server vs. Ours

Umami (self-hosted): Umami is free and open-source (MIT license), and its self-hosted stack is intentionally lightweight — a single Postgres database plus a Node.js app. Run it on your own server and you get unlimited sites and data with full control, but you're responsible for provisioning, updates, and uptime yourself.

statpx: statpx is fully managed. Sign up, add a two-line tracking snippet, and you're tracking — no server to provision, no database to maintain, no updates to apply. Infrastructure, backups, and uptime are handled on our side.

Umami Cloud vs. statpx: Free Tiers and Pricing

Umami also offers Umami Cloud, a hosted option with a free tier limited to a small number of sites and a capped number of monthly events; usage beyond that moves to a paid plan. statpx's free plan has no such caps: unlimited websites, unlimited pageviews, unlimited team members, no credit card, and no paid tier to eventually hit — the free plan is the only plan.

Feature Depth: Minimal vs. Complete

Umami's philosophy is intentional minimalism: pageviews, unique visitors, referrers, UTM/campaign tracking, and basic custom events. That's the feature set, by design.

statpx includes those basics plus considerably more: click heatmaps and session recordings, funnels (2–5 step) and page flow, form analytics with per-field drop-off, e-commerce revenue tracking, A/B testing, retention cohorts, Core Web Vitals monitoring, multi-touch attribution, alerts, Google Search Console integration, GA4 historical import, and a REST API. If you only need pageview counts and referrers, Umami is lighter. If you want heatmaps, funnels, or e-commerce tracking, you'd otherwise need to add separate tools alongside Umami — with statpx, it's all in the one free plan.

When Self-Hosting Umami Makes Sense

If data sovereignty is the priority — keeping analytics data on infrastructure you fully control, rather than in someone else's cloud — self-hosted Umami is a reasonable trade: real operational responsibility in exchange for full control over where the data lives. For teams with strict data-residency requirements, that trade can be worth it.

Who Should Choose Which?

Pick Umami if: you want to self-host on your own server for full data control, you're comfortable maintaining that infrastructure, and basic pageview/referrer/event tracking covers what you need.

Pick statpx if: you want a complete feature set — heatmaps, session recordings, funnels, form analytics, A/B testing, e-commerce tracking — with zero hosting or maintenance burden, at no cost. See how both stack up against the wider field in our Google Analytics alternatives roundup, or read more on privacy-friendly analytics in general.

The Bottom Line

Umami and statpx both work well as cookie-free alternatives to Google Analytics, but they optimize for different things. Choose self-hosted Umami if data sovereignty matters most and you're comfortable running your own Postgres/Node.js server. Choose statpx if you want a complete feature set — heatmaps, session recordings, funnels, A/B testing, e-commerce tracking — without any infrastructure to maintain, and you want it free forever with no caps on sites, pageviews, or team members.