What does Matomo cost at 500k hits a month, compared with trckable?

Matomo: Cloud (600,000 hits plan) $139 a month, $1,390 a year; On-Premise Community edition: free, on your own server; its sizes go 300,000, 600,000, 1 million hits. trckable: $42 a month, or $336 a year (kept at every renewal while you stay on 500k yearly). Matomo Cloud bills by hits: one tracked page view, event, download, outlink, site search or content request each. Its yearly price is ten months' price.

Can I self-host Matomo?

Yes: the On-Premise Community edition is free, with unlimited users and hits. trckable: Yes, free: the same program that runs our Cloud.

Is Matomo open source?

Yes: GPL v3 or later. trckable: Yes: server AGPL-3.0, tracker and npm package MIT.

Where does Matomo store its data?

Cloud: Frankfurt, Germany. On-Premise: wherever you put your servers. trckable: The EU: servers in Amsterdam, backups in the EU.

Does Matomo use cookies?

Its default tracking code sets first-party cookies, which can be turned off; it says consent may still be needed under EU rules. trckable: Cookieless mode is one switch: nothing is kept on the visitor's device. Without it, one first-party cookie lets a sale days later land on the right visit.

How big is Matomo's tracking script?

22,204 B self-hosted; 28,211 B from its Cloud CDN; matomo.js from its GitHub repository, and cdn.matomo.cloud/matomo.js, gzipped, measured 1 Oct 2026. trckable: 2,045 B; measured in CI, 1 Oct 2026.

Checked against Matomo's public pages on 1 October 2026

trckable vs Matomo

An open-source analytics platform you can host yourself for free (On-Premise) or pay Matomo to host (Cloud). Two analytics tools side by side. Where Matomo's public pages do not say, the table says so.

Side by side

Topic	trckable	Matomo
Price, in US dollars
100k events a month	$6 a month $60 a year	Cloud (100,000 hits plan) $42 a month, $420 a year On-Premise Community edition: free, on your own server¹
500k events a month	$42 a month $336 a year*	Cloud (600,000 hits plan) $139 a month, $1,390 a year On-Premise Community edition: free, on your own server¹its sizes go 300,000, 600,000, 1 million hits¹
2M events a month	$99 a month $990 a year	Cloud (2 million hits plan) $399 a month, $3,990 a year On-Premise Community edition: free, on your own server¹
What the plans differ in	One plan: every feature at every size	Cloud: one plan sized by hits, 30 websites and 30 team members; Enterprise has custom limits. On-Premise: free Community, or Team, Business and Enterprise bundles that add plugins¹
Revenue
Revenue attribution	Yes: sales credited to the visit that earned them	Yes, with its Multi-Channel Conversion Attribution plugin, which splits conversions and revenue by channel⁸
Payment providers	Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Paddle and Dodo with one key; any other checkout by webhook	A WooCommerce Analytics plugin is listed; other payment providers are not stated¹
Hosting and code
Self-hosting	Yes, free: the same program that runs our Cloud	Yes: the On-Premise Community edition is free, with unlimited users and hits¹
Open source	Yes: server AGPL-3.0, tracker and npm package MIT	Yes: GPL v3 or later³
Where data is stored	The EU: servers in Amsterdam, backups in the EU	Cloud: Frankfurt, Germany. On-Premise: wherever you put your servers¹
Visitors
Cookies and consent	Cookieless mode is one switch: nothing is kept on the visitor's device. Without it, one first-party cookie lets a sale days later land on the right visit	Its default tracking code sets first-party cookies, which can be turned off; it says consent may still be needed under EU rules⁴
Tracker size, gzipped	2,045 Bmeasured in CI, 1 Oct 2026	22,204 B self-hosted; 28,211 B from its Cloud CDNmatomo.js from its GitHub repository, and cdn.matomo.cloud/matomo.js, gzipped, measured 1 Oct 2026^{5, 9}
Team and data
AI assistant	Peek answers questions about your numbers in plain words, in the dashboard; API, CLI and MCP for your own AI tools	An MCP server connects AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude to your data; a built-in assistant is not stated⁶
Team seats	Up to 10 team members to 500k events, unlimited from 1M; viewers and share links always unlimited	Cloud: 30 team members. On-Premise: unlimited on Community, up to 4 on Team, 20 on Business, 50 on Enterprise¹
Data export	The view you are looking at as CSV, filters included; the same numbers over the API; your whole install as one file you can run anywhere	CSV, TSV, XML or JSON through its export and API, plus a Data Warehouse Connector for raw data⁷

* At 500k our yearly price is under ten months' price, and stays yours at every renewal while you stay on 500k yearly. Matomo Cloud bills by hits: one tracked page view, event, download, outlink, site search or content request each². Its yearly price is ten months' price¹. Our counts are pageviews and custom events, across all your sites. Prices are in US dollars as each tool lists them; where its sizes differ from ours, the closest plan that covers the size is shown.

Where Matomo is strong

Heatmaps and session recording, A/B testing, funnels and a tag manager are listed on its plans, and it can import data from Google Analytics¹.
It can export raw data to a data warehouse, and reports in CSV, TSV, XML or JSON⁷.

Why switch

A lighter script. 2,045 bytes gzipped, with goals, outbound links and checkout attribution built in.
Revenue by source. Sales from Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Paddle and Dodo credited to the visit that earned them.
Ask in words. Peek answers questions about your numbers in plain language.

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Questions

What does Matomo cost at 500k hits a month, compared with trckable?: Matomo: Cloud (600,000 hits plan) $139 a month, $1,390 a year; On-Premise Community edition: free, on your own server; its sizes go 300,000, 600,000, 1 million hits. trckable: $42 a month, or $336 a year (kept at every renewal while you stay on 500k yearly). Matomo Cloud bills by hits: one tracked page view, event, download, outlink, site search or content request each. Its yearly price is ten months' price.
Can I self-host Matomo?: Yes: the On-Premise Community edition is free, with unlimited users and hits. trckable: Yes, free: the same program that runs our Cloud.
Is Matomo open source?: Yes: GPL v3 or later. trckable: Yes: server AGPL-3.0, tracker and npm package MIT.
Where does Matomo store its data?: Cloud: Frankfurt, Germany. On-Premise: wherever you put your servers. trckable: The EU: servers in Amsterdam, backups in the EU.
Does Matomo use cookies?: Its default tracking code sets first-party cookies, which can be turned off; it says consent may still be needed under EU rules. trckable: Cookieless mode is one switch: nothing is kept on the visitor's device. Without it, one first-party cookie lets a sale days later land on the right visit.
How big is Matomo's tracking script?: 22,204 B self-hosted; 28,211 B from its Cloud CDN; matomo.js from its GitHub repository, and cdn.matomo.cloud/matomo.js, gzipped, measured 1 Oct 2026. trckable: 2,045 B; measured in CI, 1 Oct 2026.

Other comparisons

Sources, checked on 1 October 2026

The Matomo column is our reading of its public pages, in our own words. If it has changed or we got it wrong, tell us and we will fix it. "Not stated" means we found nothing on those pages either way.

Cloud prices per hit size (its structured data lists US dollars), plans, allowances, data location, On-Premise editions and users: matomo.org/pricing/.
What counts as a hit: matomo.org/faq/general/what-is-a-hit/.
Licence, stated in the repository readme: raw.githubusercontent.com/matomo-org/matomo/5.x-dev/README.md.
Cookies its tracking code creates and the consent note: matomo.org/faq/general/faq_146/.
Script size: the file, gzipped: raw.githubusercontent.com/matomo-org/matomo/5.x-dev/matomo.js.
AI: its MCP server guide: matomo.org/guide/apis/mcp-model-context-protocol/.
Data export: formats, API and the data warehouse connector: matomo.org/guide/manage-matomo/export-data/.
Revenue by channel: the attribution plugin page: plugins.matomo.org/MultiChannelConversionAttribution.
Script size of the generic matomo.js on its Cloud CDN, the size sent over the wire, gzipped: cdn.matomo.cloud/matomo.js.

trckable's figures: prices are the ones on the pricing, sizes are CI's measurements, the rest is in the docs.