Vinceanalytics by vinceanalytics

Self Hosted Alternative To Google Analytics

cloud-nativeself-hostedvinceweb-analytics
Verdict 57/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty Last release 10 months ago

Self-host Vinceanalytics on hetzner for $4.13/mo and save approximately $94/year vs Simple Analytics.

Health score
57 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
2 /5
Docker + read README
GitHub stars
2.0k
74 forks

About Vinceanalytics

From the project's README at github.com/vinceanalytics/vince. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

Vince is a self hosted alternative to Google Analytics. Automatic TLS native support for Let's Encrypt. Drop in replacement for Plausible Analytics you can use existing Plausible scripts and just point them to the vince instance (note that vince is lean and only covers features for a single entity self hosting, so it is not our goal to be feature parity with Plausible). Outbound links tracking File download tracking 404 page tracking Custom event tracking Time period comparison Public dashboards allow access to the dashboard to anyone (by default all dashboards are private). Unique shared access generate unique links to dashboards that can be password protected. Zero Dependency: Ships a single binary with everything in it. No runtime dependency. Easy to operate: One

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
61
maturity
93
community
51
security
70
sustainability
53
adoption
27

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 2.0k github.com/vinceanalytics/vince
GitHub forks 74 github.com/vinceanalytics/vince

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age3.1 yearssince Jun 2023
Last commit10 months agoSep 1, 2025
Releases shipped85last: 10 months ago

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

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Replaces these paid SaaS

Vinceanalytics is one of the open-source alternatives to:

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Ready to self-host Vinceanalytics?

Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.

Data last refreshed Jun 21, 2026.

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