Web Analytics · Comparison
Seline vs. Statcounter
Seline and Statcounter compared across Company facts, Pricing, Analytics capabilities, Privacy & compliance, Data ownership & deployment and Platform & integrations — every fact sourced and re-verified from each vendor's public material.
Seline
Simple, cookieless, privacy-first website and product analytics built in the EU.
Statcounter
Simple real-time web analytics tracking visitor behaviour, traffic sources, and page performance.
Company facts
Headquarters
Warsaw, Poland Registered address: ul. Łowicka 60/16, 02-531 Warsaw, Poland.
Dublin, Ireland Headquartered at Guinness Enterprise Centre, Taylor's Lane, Dublin 8, Ireland.
Employees
4 Tiny bootstrapped team of approximately 4 people. Co-founded by Kostya Nesterovich and Misha Slizenko.
8 Very small team; multiple sources indicate 7–10 employees as of 2024–2025.
Pricing
Starting Monthly Price (USD)
$14 Single 'Pro' plan at $14/month (monthly billing). Annual billing available with 2 months free.
$9 Premium plan starts at $9/month for 20,000 sessions/month.
Offers Free Tier
No perpetual free plan. Seline states: 'No, we don't have a free plan. We're a small bootstrapped team operating exclusively through subscriber fees.'
Basic plan is free forever with 5,000 sessions/month and 14 days data retention.
Free Trial Length (Days)
7 days 7-day free trial on the Pro plan, no credit card required.
30 days 30-day free trial on paid plans, no credit card required.
Entry Plan Pageview Limit (Monthly)
100k Pro plan includes 100,000 events per month. Seline meters 'events' (pageviews + custom events combined), not pageviews alone.
20k Entry Premium plan includes 20,000 sessions/month. Statcounter uses 'sessions' not pageviews.
Entry Plan Website Limit
1 sites Pricing is per project (one website/domain per subscription); linking additional projects requires their own Pro subscription, with the option to share an event limit.
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Analytics capabilities
Real-Time Dashboard
Live globe view and real-time visitor activity dashboard included.
Live visitor feed and real-time visitor updates available on all plans including free Basic.
Custom Event Tracking
Custom events tracked via seline.track() JS method or data-sln-event HTML attributes. Custom properties supported.
Statcounter does not support user-defined custom events. Goal tracking is URL/page-based only.
Goal / Conversion Tracking
Conversion via multi-step funnels (step drop-off / conversion rate) and revenue-attributed custom events.
Supports URL-based conversion goal tracking; shows conversion rate from landing page to goal URL.
Funnels
Multi-step funnel analysis built into the product for all plan users.
No multi-step funnel analysis feature found in Statcounter's product.
Ecommerce / Revenue Tracking
Revenue attribution by traffic source, referrer, and UTM. Native integrations with Stripe, Shopify, and Polar. MRR tracking included.
No ecommerce or revenue tracking feature found; no monetary value attribution in any report.
Heatmaps
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Interactive click heatmaps available on Premium Plus plan ($19/mo and above).
Privacy & compliance
Cookieless Tracking
Cookie-free by design. Uses daily-rotated non-reversible hashing of IP+browser+device — no cookies or persistent browser storage.
Statcounter sets a persistent analytics cookie ('is_unique') by default. No cookieless tracking mode available.
Consent Banner Required
No cookie/consent banner needed. Seline explicitly states GDPR compliance without requiring visitor consent banners.
Statcounter sets persistent analytics cookies; a consent banner is required for EU/ePrivacy compliance.
GDPR Compliant
Vendor explicitly claims GDPR compliance. No personal data retained; EU-hosted infrastructure.
Statcounter claims GDPR compatibility, arguing it is anonymous tracking and IP addresses are not personal data under its use.
EU Data Residency
All infrastructure hosted in Germany (EU) via Hetzner — app servers, ClickHouse, and Postgres databases.
No first-party EU data-storage guarantee; company is Dublin-based but visitor data location is undocumented and infrastructure signals point to US providers (Cloudflare/Rackspace).
Data ownership & deployment
Open Source
The main SaaS product is proprietary. Only the JavaScript tracker client (seline-js) is MIT-licensed open source on GitHub.
Statcounter is a proprietary closed-source SaaS product.
License
proprietary Main analytics platform is proprietary SaaS. The JS tracker client is separately MIT-licensed.
proprietary Closed-source SaaS with a proprietary license.
Self-Hostable
Cloud-only SaaS. No self-hosting or on-premises option is documented or advertised.
Cloud-only SaaS; no self-hosting or on-premises option available.
Data Retention (Months)
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36 mo Entry Premium plan retains data for 3 years (36 months).
Unlimited Data Retention
Pro plan retains data forever ('unlimited' retention). Free trial and any hypothetical lower tiers cap at 1 year.
Entry Premium plan has a 3-year (36-month) data retention limit; Premium Plus is 5 years.
Google Analytics Import
No official Google Analytics (UA/GA4) historical-data import; tracking starts from install.
No Google Analytics historical data import tool found.
Raw Data Export
Public API includes a Raw Events endpoint for exporting individual event records with full filtering, pagination, and ordering. CSV export also available via AI assistant.
Only aggregated summary reports are exportable as CSV/Excel; raw visit-level data export is not available.
Platform & integrations
Has API
Public Stats API available at seline.com/api — covers visit metrics, custom events, funnels, visitor profiles, revenue data, and raw events.
Statcounter API at api.statcounter.com allows programmatic access to analytics data; requires paid plan.
Tracking Script Size (KB)
4.2 KB Measured compressed transfer size.
17.2 KB Measured compressed transfer size.
Official WordPress Plugin
Official WordPress plugin published at wordpress.org/plugins/seline-analytics by the Seline founder (nstkostya = Kostya Nesterovich).
Official Statcounter plugin published on wordpress.org under the vendor's name.
Email Reports
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Scheduled email reports available daily, weekly, or monthly with customizable stat selection.
Public Dashboard Sharing
Dashboards can be shared via a public link (e.g. app.seline.com/share/<site>) viewable without an account.
Stats can be made publicly viewable via a 'Public Stats' option; no login required to view.
The verdict
Seline Best for privacy-first, conversion-focused EU sites
Seline tracks cookie-free with no consent banner and hosts data in the EU, where Statcounter sets a persistent cookie, needs a banner, and offers no EU residency. It also adds funnels, custom events, revenue tracking, raw-data export, and unlimited retention that Statcounter lacks, on a 4.2 KB script.
Full profile Statcounter Best for a free plan and low-cost basic stats
Statcounter has a forever-free tier and a $9 entry plan, undercutting Seline's $14 with no free option, plus a 30-day trial versus Seline's 7. It adds heatmaps and scheduled email reports Seline does not list. The trade-off: cookie-based tracking needing a consent banner, and no funnels, custom events, or revenue tracking.
Full profileSources · 34 verified references
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