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Skomi and Umami

Umami is open source, cookieless, and easy to run yourself, which is what most people pick it for. Its hosted plans start free at one site, and self-hosting means the data is wherever you put it.

As of September 2026 it also sells session replays and heatmaps on its Business plan, so the old line about it being web analytics and nothing else is no longer true.

Skomi and Umami, side by side

	Skomi	Umami
Works without a cookie bannerOut of the box, with no configuration.	Yes	Yes
Stores something on the visitor's deviceA cookie or an id in local storage. The law treats them the same.	No	No
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.	Yes	Yes
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.	No	Your own database, self-hosted
Sites	Yes	Yes
Mobile and desktop apps	Yes	No
Heatmaps	Yes	Yes
Session recordings	Yes	Yes
Feedback boards	Yes	No
Reports where your traffic comes from	Yes	Yes
Data stored in the EU	Yes	Your choice
Open source	No	Yes
Can be self-hosted	No	Yes
Surveys and user interviews	No	No
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.	No	Unlimited, self-hosted
Free tierSkomi's is the Hobby plan: one site, no card.	Yes	Yes

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 If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will fix it.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 Umami

Skomi covers more ground, and less of it than it used to. Umami's Business plan now includes session replays and heatmaps, so behaviour capture is no longer the difference it was. What is still only here: analytics for the apps people install, and a feedback widget and public board. Those you would assemble from other tools.

Where your data lives is decided for you, in the EU. With Umami that is your decision, which is an advantage if you want to make it and a task if you do not.

Both are free to start, but not at the same scale. Skomi's Hobby plan covers one site with an allowance and asks for no card; past that you pay. Umami self-hosted is free however far you grow, which is a different and stronger offer if you are willing to run it.

What Umami does better

Open source, self-hostable, and free to run. Three things Skomi is not. If you are comfortable running a database and a container, Umami costs you nothing but attention, and nobody can change the terms on you.

It is also lighter than Skomi and simpler to learn, for the same reason Plausible is: it is doing less.

Which to choose

Choose Umami if you want to own the software and the server, or if free matters more than breadth.

Choose Skomi if you would rather not run anything, and want app analytics and feedback alongside the web numbers, or heatmaps and recordings without moving up to a plan priced for a much larger site.

Weighed against another product

Umami vs Plausible

Both are open source, cookieless and self-hostable, and for years the choice barely mattered. It does now: one of them added heatmaps and session replay, and the other still charges from the first day.

Other comparisons

Google Analytics

The incumbent. Free, enormous, and built for advertising rather than for reading.

Plausible

Open source, privacy-first, deliberately small. The closest thing to Skomi's starting point.

Matomo

The full-featured open-source alternative to GA, heatmaps and recordings included.

Cloudflare Web Analytics

Free, privacy-friendly, and deliberately minimal.

Hotjar

Heatmaps, recordings and surveys, now sold as Contentsquare.

Microsoft Clarity

Microsoft's free heatmaps and session recordings, with no traffic limits and a cookie.

Fathom Analytics

Privacy-first web analytics, with history that never expires.

Simple Analytics

Privacy-first web analytics from the Netherlands, free for five sites.

PostHog

Open-source product analytics with replay, surveys, feature flags and experiments.

Mixpanel

Product analytics with session replay and heatmaps, free for a million events.

Firebase Analytics

Google's free app analytics. Unlimited events, no server to run, and everything else that comes with being Google's.

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

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