Comparison · Privacy-friendly analytics
MetricRaven vs Pirsch: Pirsch alternative
Pirsch facts last checked · sources
Pirsch is a privacy-friendly analytics tool from Germany. It works without cookies, keeps your data in a German server cluster, and has some features you rarely see at its price: a built-in URL shortener, A/B testing with tags, webhooks, traffic spike alerts and extensive white labeling.
MetricRaven is built around a different question: which channels bring paying customers? Pirsch can total revenue you send as event metadata on its Plus plan. MetricRaven connects to your payment provider directly on every plan, imports your payment history and credits each payment to the visit that first brought the customer.
Quick comparison
| Feature | MetricRaven | Pirsch |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | Founders who want revenue per channel out of the box | Agencies and site owners who want cheap, cookie-free, German-hosted analytics |
| Free trial | 14 days, no card | 30 days, no card |
| Entry price | $9/month for 10k events | $6/month for 10k page views (Standard) |
| Revenue | Connect your payment provider; every plan | Event metadata you send yourself; Plus plan |
| Funnels | Every plan | Plus plan |
| Self-hosting | No | Enterprise licence only |
Pricing compared
Pirsch has two self-serve plans priced by monthly page views. At 10k, Standard is $6 and Plus is $12 a month; at 100k they're $12 and $27. Custom events and 10% of session extensions count toward the limit. Yearly billing costs ten times the monthly price. Every plan has unlimited members and unlimited data retention; Standard covers 50 websites and Plus is unlimited. Funnels, A/B testing, segmentation and e-commerce revenue tracking are on Plus.
MetricRaven prices by events (pageviews, goals and payments): Starter is $9 a month for 10k and $19 for 100k, Growth $19 and $39. Yearly billing is also ten months' price. Revenue attribution, funnels and AI crawler reports are on both plans (pricing).
Choose MetricRaven if
- You want revenue per channel, referrer and campaign without writing revenue events by hand (attribute Stripe revenue).
- You want funnels that end in a real payment, on the entry plan (goals and funnels).
- You want to see which AI crawlers read your pages (AI crawlers).
- You want an official MCP server and CLI to query your numbers from your editor or terminal.
Choose Pirsch if
- You want your analytics hosted in Germany by a German company.
- You run many client sites and want unlimited members, white labeling and custom domains.
- You want the lowest entry price and only need traffic numbers and goals.
- You want a built-in URL shortener or tag-based A/B testing.
What Pirsch does well
- Privacy and location. No cookies, no personal data stored, and data hosted on a server cluster in Germany.
- Generous limits. Unlimited members and unlimited data retention on every plan, and 50 websites on Standard.
- Agency features. White labeling, custom themes, custom domains, public dashboards and access links.
- Useful extras: Search Console, traffic spike and warning notifications, webhooks, server-side tracking, a URL shortener, and imports from Google Analytics, Plausible and Fathom.
- Open-source core. The tracking library is AGPLv3 on GitHub, although running the full product yourself needs an Enterprise licence.
What MetricRaven does well
- Payments connected, not typed in. Read-only connections to Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle, Polar, RevenueCat and others, including refunds and subscriptions.
- Revenue everywhere. Channels, referrers, campaigns, pages, countries and devices can be sorted by revenue, and Search Console keywords show estimated revenue (Search Console).
- AI crawler reports. See requests from GPTBot, ClaudeBot, ChatGPT-User and others, by page, plus robots.txt and llms.txt fetches. They don't count toward your events.
- Developer tools: an official MCP server, a CLI, a REST API and GitHub commit markers on the traffic chart.
How to try MetricRaven next to Pirsch
- Start a 14-day trial; no card is needed.
- Add the MetricRaven script alongside Pirsch's (install).
- Connect your payment provider, for example Stripe, and import your payment history.
- Pass the visitor ID into your checkout so new payments are attributed (Stripe Checkout).
- After a week, compare visitor counts, then check revenue per channel and funnel conversion to a payment.
Feature comparison
| Feature | MetricRaven | Pirsch |
|---|---|---|
| Payment provider connections | Yes. 8 providers plus an API | Needs setup. Send amounts as event metadata |
| Revenue reporting | Yes. By channel, page and campaign | Partly. Total and average per goal, Plus plan |
| Funnels | Yes. Every plan | Yes. Plus plan |
| Goals and custom events | Yes | Yes |
| Google Search Console | Yes | Yes |
| AI crawler reports | Yes | No. Bot requests are dropped |
| Traffic spike alerts | Yes | Yes |
| Proxy to beat ad blockers | Yes. Self-hosted recipes | Yes. Self-hosted proxy or Cloudflare Worker |
| No cookies before consent | Yes | Yes. No cookies at all |
| Unlimited data retention | No. 3 years, or 5+ on Growth | Yes |
| EU hosting | Not verified | Yes. Germany |
| Open source / self-host | No | Partly. AGPL core; self-host on Enterprise |
| MCP server | Yes | Partly. Community-built, not official |
“Needs setup” means it can be done with extra work, such as custom code, a third-party tool or a self-built integration. “Not verified” means we couldn't confirm it from Pirsch's public pages.
Verdict
Pirsch is a solid, inexpensive choice if you want cookie-free analytics hosted in Germany, unlimited retention, and agency features like white labeling. For traffic numbers alone it costs less than MetricRaven.
If you need to know which channel actually makes money, MetricRaven does that with less setup: connect your payment provider and revenue appears next to every source, on every plan. Run both for a week and see which dashboard answers your questions.
Frequently asked questions
Is MetricRaven cheaper than Pirsch?
No. Pirsch Standard starts at $6 a month for 10k page views and MetricRaven Starter at $9 for 10k events. Pirsch puts funnels and revenue tracking on Plus, at $12 a month for 10k page views, while MetricRaven includes both on every plan.
Can Pirsch connect to Stripe?
Pirsch's docs describe tracking revenue by sending an event with the amount and currency as metadata, then adding a custom metric to a conversion goal. MetricRaven connects to Stripe directly with a read-only key and imports your payment history.
Where is my data stored?
Pirsch says all data is hosted on a server cluster in Germany. MetricRaven does not currently promise EU-only hosting, so if that is a hard requirement, Pirsch is the safer choice.
Sources and method
Pirsch details come from its public website on Nov 2, 2026. Prices and features change, so check Pirsch's site before deciding. MetricRaven details come from our pricing and docs. Spotted something out of date? Email support@metricraven.com.
- Homepage: pirsch.io/
- Pricing and feature comparison: pirsch.io/pricing
- Conversion goals and custom metrics: docs.pirsch.io/advanced/conversion-goals
- FAQ (self-hosting, proxies, bot filtering): docs.pirsch.io/faq
- Proxying the scripts: docs.pirsch.io/advanced/proxy
- Model Context Protocol (MCP): docs.pirsch.io/integrations/mcp
- Documentation index: docs.pirsch.io/llms.txt
- Open-source core (pirsch-analytics/pirsch): github.com/pirsch-analytics/pirsch