Vercel Analytics alternative

Vercel Analytics is already switched on and costs you nothing. Here is the honest case for adding something else, and when there isn't one.

What Vercel Analytics does well

It is already there. If you deploy on Vercel, it is a toggle and a package, it needs no separate account, and the free tier covers a lot of side projects. It is cookieless, so no consent banner. For a project that just needs to know whether anyone visited, that is genuinely hard to beat, and paying for an alternative would be silly.

Where it stops fitting

Two limits show up as a project grows.

The first is that it lives with your host. Move off Vercel, or add a second site somewhere else, and your analytics do not come with you. If you ship several things across different platforms, you end up with numbers in several places and no single view.

The second is the same one every dashboard has: someone has to open it. In practice that is you, and in practice you mostly do not.

What Staats does instead

Staats is a script tag, so it runs anywhere you can put HTML: Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages, a VPS. One account key covers every project you own, so a portfolio of side projects is one connection rather than several dashboards.

And there is no dashboard to open, because your coding agent reads it over the Model Context Protocol:

It remembers your project. Staats stores what each site is for, what your funnel steps mean, and what every event tracks, so a question three weeks later does not start from a blank slate.

It knows what you shipped. Your agent tags each deploy with its commit and the routes it touched, then compares traffic before and after that exact change, and tells you when the difference is too small to trust.

It speaks before you ask. Unusual days, first-time referrers and pages whose share jumped are surfaced on their own, rather than waiting for you to go looking.

What you give up

Zero setup. Vercel's is a toggle. Ours is a script tag your agent pastes in, which is close, but it is not nothing.

Platform integration. Vercel ties analytics to deployments and Speed Insights in its own dashboard. Staats tracks deploys too, through annotations your agent records, but it is not wired into Vercel's UI.

Free forever at any scale. Our free tier is 10,000 events a month. Past that it is paid.

Who should not switch

One project, hosted on Vercel, and you are happy checking a graph occasionally. Keep what you have. This is for the case where you have three or four things live in different places and no coherent picture of any of them.

Create a free account and paste the snippet. The free plan covers side projects and there is no card required.