Nodium and Simple Analytics
Simple Analytics and Nodium both count visitors without cookies. Nodium adds a read of your own forms, insights written from rules instead of AI, and a weekly check of your pages. Here's where they differ.
Facts checked on October 23, 2026, each against its source. Every number links to where it came from.
Side by side
| What | Nodium | Simple Analytics | Better at this |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $9 a month for one site with 10,000 pageviews a month, or $15 for 5 sites and 100,000, with every feature on this page on every plan.1 | $20 a month on Self-serve, as its pricing page shows at 100,000 pageviews, with one user included and $20 a month for each extra user.2 | About even |
| Free trial | 30 days with everything, no card.1 | 14 days, no card.2 | About even |
| Counting without cookies | No cookies and nothing stored on the device. A visitor is a daily key made from the IP address, the browser and your site, and the IP address is never stored.3 | No cookies, and the IP address is dropped from every request.4 A page view counts as a new visitor when it has no referrer or comes from another site.5 | About even |
| Form analysis | Reads each form on your own site field by field, never what anyone types: who saw it, who started it, who sent it (where your site shows a send), the field where people stop and the fields the form marked wrong. Nothing to set up.6 | Counts your own form's submissions as an event you add to the form's code.7 We didn't find form starts or fields on that page. | Nodium |
| Insights from written rules | “What we noticed”: insights from written rules, each with how it was counted. No AI.8 | An AI chat answers questions about your stats in plain English, once you agree to send your analytics data to OpenAI.9 | Nodium |
| Search, speed and accessibility checks | Weekly search, speed and accessibility checks, with a fix list.10 | We didn't find this on Simple Analytics's pages. | Nodium |
| Email reports | A Monday email with the week's figures, notes and fixes.11 | Weekly or monthly, and it includes your top 5 referrers compared with the period before.12 | Nodium |
When to pick Nodium
Pick Nodium if your site is there to get people to call, email or send a form. It counts just as privately, then reads your forms for you, says what it noticed with the numbers it used, and tells you what on your pages is worth fixing this week.
Sources
- Nodium: Pricing, opened October 22, 2026
- Simple Analytics: Pricing, opened October 22, 2026
- Nodium Docs: Privacy on your site, opened October 22, 2026
- Simple Analytics Docs: Data Collection, opened October 22, 2026
- Simple Analytics Docs: Unique visits explained, opened October 22, 2026
- Nodium Docs: What the script reads, opened October 23, 2026
- Simple Analytics: How to track form submissions, opened October 23, 2026
- Nodium Docs: What we noticed, opened October 22, 2026
- Simple Analytics Docs: AI chat, opened October 22, 2026
- Nodium Docs: Weekly site checks, opened October 22, 2026
- Nodium Docs: The weekly report, opened October 22, 2026
- Simple Analytics Docs: Email reports, opened October 22, 2026
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