The 4-axis argument.
Most analytics tools pick two or three. We picked all four.
| Tool | Privacy | Revenue attribution | Free forever | Developer experience |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clycyo | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DataFast | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ~ |
| Plausible | ✓ | ~ | ✗ | ~ |
| Fathom | ✓ | ~ | ✗ | ~ |
| Google Analytics | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| PostHog | ~ | ~ | ✓ | ✓ |
The anti-tradeoff
DataFast says: cookie-free tracking sacrifices accuracy.
Plausible says: revenue tracking sacrifices privacy.
Both are wrong.
Modern cookieless tracking with 24-hour salt rotation, server-side identification at conversion, and first-party subdomain proxying recovers 93% of the conversion attribution that cookies provide — while sidestepping the 25–55% data loss caused by cookie consent rejection in EU populations. We measured it on 50 production sites for 30 days. The math is published.
The framing of “accuracy vs privacy” sets up a false binary. The actual choice is:
- Cookies + banner: more long-window data, fewer consenting users, GDPR liability.
- Cookieless + server-side identification at conversion: same conversion-relevant data, no banner, no liability.
For most products, the second option is strictly better.
Free forever, on purpose
Every other privacy-first tool starts at $9–$19/month with a 14- to 30-day trial. We start at $0/month, 10,000 events/mo, no credit card, no expiration.
We can do this because our cost-per-event at small scale is genuinely close to zero, and because we'd rather have you hit Pro because your traffic outgrew Free than because we squeezed you off Free. Side projects and indie hackers are the next wave of SaaS founders. We want to be the analytics they use before they had revenue.
Developer-grade by construction
Clycyo ships first-party SDKs in TypeScript, Python, Go, Ruby, PHP, Node.js, and edge runtimes. Each is fully typed, semver-disciplined, and published to its native registry. Our docs are written like software documentation, not marketing pages.
We dogfood: clycyo.com is tracked by Clycyo. The dashboard at /open is the same one you'll use. Bugs we hit, you don't.
Honest about competitors
On every comparison page, we tell you when the competitor is the better choice. DataFast wins on indie-hacker community. Plausible wins on simplicity for content sites. GA4 wins on Google Ads attribution.
We'd rather lose a sale to the right tool than win one to the wrong tool. Trust compounds.
The concrete numbers
- 1.1 KB gzipped tracker (vs 60 KB GA4, 4 KB DataFast, 2.5 KB Plausible)
- 0 ms blocking time on LCP / TBT / INP
- <50 ms ingestion latency p95
- 10,000 events/mo free forever, no credit card
- 0 cookies, 0 persistent identifiers, 24-hour salt rotation
- EU + US data residency, picked at site creation
- Up to 35% of events recovered server-side, bypassing ad-blockers
Numbers are the antidote to vague marketing. We'll keep these accurate and update them when reality moves.