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Skomi and Matomo

Matomo is the closest of these five to Skomi in scope: it does heatmaps, session recordings, funnels and goals, and it can be self-hosted. It is also the one that most resembles Google Analytics in how much there is to learn.

Skomi and Matomo, side by side

SkomiMatomo
Works without a cookie bannerOut of the box, with no configuration.YesConfigurable
Stores something on the visitor's deviceA cookie or an id in local storage. The law treats them the same.NoConfigurable
Counts every visit, without samplingBoth Google and Cloudflare sample adaptively, so a small site is not sampled at all. Hotjar does not sample; it stops, at a number of sessions set by the plan.YesYes
Keeps your full history for as long as you are a customerSkomi does not: it deletes analytics once the plan's window has passed, and the window each plan sells is on the pricing page. A cell reads "Not checked" where the product publishes no figure we could verify. Plausible documents "5+ years" for Enterprise but states nothing for its standard plans, and Cloudflare documents no retention period at all.NoReports forever, raw data 24 months on cloud; your own database self-hosted
SitesYesYes
Mobile and desktop appsYesYes
HeatmapsYesYes
Session recordingsYesYes
Feedback boardsYesNo
Reports where your traffic comes fromYesYes
Data stored in the EUYesYour choice
Open sourceNoYes
Can be self-hostedNoYes
Surveys and user interviewsNoNot checked
More than one site on the free planSkomi's free plan carries one site, which is a real reason to pick something else if you look after several small ones. Google and Cloudflare read "Not checked" because how many sites their free tiers cover was not verified. That they HAVE a free tier is the row above.NoUnlimited, self-hosted
Free tierSkomi's is the Hobby plan: one site, no card.YesSelf-hosted only

Checked against each product on 6 September 2026. If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will fix it. A comparison table nobody corrects is a comparison table nobody should trust.

Where Skomi differs from Matomo

Cookieless is the default here, and a decision there. Matomo can be configured to run without cookies; out of the box it uses them, and the configuration is on you. Skomi stores nothing on a visitor's device unless you deliberately turn that on, so the safe state is the one you get without doing anything.

A small script. Ours is 11.7 KB gzipped, and here is what is in it. Matomo's does far more on the visitor's machine, which is the same reason it can do more.

Less to learn. Matomo has a report for nearly everything, which is its strength and the reason people bounce off it. Skomi shows fewer things and expects less of you.

Feedback is part of it. Boards, voting and a widget, on the same account.

What Matomo does better

Open source, self-hostable, and far more featured. Tag management, A/B testing, custom reports, roll-up reporting, a plugin marketplace and years of accumulated capability. If you want a report Skomi does not have, Matomo probably has it.

It has been doing this since before most alternatives existed, and its heatmaps and recordings are more mature than ours.

Which to choose

Choose Matomo if you want depth, plugins and the option to run it yourself, and you have somebody willing to configure it properly, including the cookie settings.

Choose Skomi if you want the privacy default to be correct without configuration, a lighter script, and a smaller product you can read at a glance.

One script, or one SDK. The same reports either way.

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