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Compare Panelbear vs Matomo
Matomo is great for marketing professionals, but if you're looking for a simpler and blazingly fast alternative, Panelbear is worth looking into. Plus you'll also get powerful performance monitoring features out of the box.

What makes Panelbear a great Matomo alternative
Here are some of the reasons why 2,500+ websites use Panelbear:
Simple and easy to use
Deliver a great experience on your website. Panelbear gives you real time traffic insights in a simple and easy to use dashboard. That way you can monitor your website's most important metrics to understand what works and what doesn't.
Metrics for modern websites
Panelbear goes beyond simply counting visitors. With built-in performance monitoring and alerting, you'll understand how your end users are truly experiencing your site.
Panelbear | Matomo | |
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Designed for | Website owners | Marketing professionals |
Cost | Free up to 1,000 monthly pageviews, then $29 / month | Starts at $19 for 50k monthly pageviews |
Data freshness | Real time - up to 1 minute | 15 minutes |
Easy of use | Simple | Advanced |
Cookie free analytics | ✔ | Requires configuration |
Performance monitoring | ✔ | Basic |
Real time alerts | ✔ | ✔ |
Metric filtering & comparison | ✔ | ✔ |
Integrations | Email, Slack, Discord | |
Load time impact on your site | None, loads in the background | Potentially render blocking (28+ ms) |
Script size | Lightweight (<5 kB) | 57.16 kB |
Shareable dashboards | ✔ | ✔ |
Detailed user demographics | No | ✔ |
Open source | Integration libraries | ✔ |
Developer API | ✔ | ✔ |
Support | Email, Chat |
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