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Pulse vs Simple Analytics

Simple Analytics is a clean, privacy-first analytics product from a Dutch company (Amsterdam) — cookieless, with its own insight and AI features.

PulsevsSimple Analytics
Starting price
Pulse
Free Personal tier; paid plans — see pricing
Simple Analytics
From $19/mo (billed yearly)
Cookies
Pulse
None
Simple Analytics
None
Consent banner (EU)
Pulse
Not needed
Simple Analytics
Not needed
Open source
Pulse
Frontend + client open (AGPL)
Simple Analytics
Scripts open; core closed, no self-host
Data residency
Pulse
Switzerland / EU
Simple Analytics
EU (Netherlands)
Company jurisdiction
Pulse
Belgium (EU)
Simple Analytics
Netherlands (EU)

Simple Analytics and Pulse are both EU-based, cookieless and banner-free. Simple Analytics is a Dutch product with a minimalist feel; Pulse’s frontend and client are fully open (AGPL), and data is hosted in Switzerland by a Belgian company. See Pulse pricing. Prices for Simple Analytics were checked against their public pricing page on 2026-07-21 and can change — confirm the current figure with the vendor.

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01 · Why teams pick Pulse

How Pulse compares to Simple Analytics

Simple Analytics is a genuinely EU-native, cookieless tool — a Dutch company with a clean product and its own automated insight features. The main distinction is openness: Simple Analytics publishes its tracking scripts but keeps the core application closed with no self-hosted option, while Pulse’s dashboard and client are open (AGPL) end to end. Both are strong EU choices; pick on product feel and how much verifiable, open code matters to you.

An EU company, under EU law

Pulse is operated by Ciphera BV, a Belgian company. Your analytics provider — and your GDPR and NIS2 jurisdiction — sits inside the EU, not offshore.

About Ciphera

Swiss data residency

Every byte of visitor data lives on infrastructure hosted in Switzerland — no transfer to the US, and no dependence on US-jurisdiction cloud providers.

EU web analytics

No cookies, no consent banner

Pulse sets no cookies and does not fingerprint visitors, so it is exempt from ePrivacy consent — no banner, and it counts every visitor, not just the ones who opt in.

How cookieless works

Open client, verifiable code

The dashboard and tracking script are open (AGPL) on GitHub, so you can read exactly what runs instead of taking our word for it.

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02 · The honest case

When Simple Analytics is the better choice

Simple Analytics is a lovely, focused product with an EU home.

  • You want a Dutch/EU company and a deliberately minimal, uncluttered dashboard.
  • Its automated insights and AI features fit the way you review data.
  • You don’t need open-source or self-hosting and prefer its specific take on simplicity.

If none of the above is a dealbreaker, Pulse gives you cookieless, banner-free analytics from an EU company with Swiss/EU data residency — and you can check it yourself on the live demo.

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Start free on the Personal tier — one script tag, no cookies, no consent banner. Or open the live demo first and see Pulse running.

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Cookie-free · Open-source client · No personal data stored