specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: Counter
providerId: counter-dev
created: '2026-06-21'
modified: '2026-08-13'
generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://counter.dev/ , https://counter.dev/welcome.html ,
  https://counter.dev/blog (the "Pay what you want - can it work?" post) and
  https://github.com/ihucos/counter.dev — searched 2026-08-13.
plan_count: 2
pricing_page_published: false
pricing_page_note: >-
  Counter publishes NO pricing page. https://counter.dev/pricing returns 404 and
  no pricing or plans link appears on the homepage, the help pages, or the
  README. The commercial model is stated as prose on the sign-up page
  ("Pay when ready") and in the blog, and the actual payment interface lives
  behind login in the dashboard (static/components/base/pwyw.js). The two plans
  below are therefore the real, complete offering, not an extract from a tier
  table — there is no tier table to extract. No `Pricing` pointer is wired in
  apis.yml because there is no pricing page to link.
reconciled: false
tags:
- Web Analytics
- Privacy
- Open Source
- Self-Hosted
- Plans
description: >-
  Counter has no metered, tiered, or per-call API pricing. The hosted service
  at counter.dev is pay-what-you-want ("start paying whenever you want"); the
  tracking, stats, and account endpoints are available for free with no credit
  card required. The full server is open source under AGPL-3.0 and can be
  self-hosted at no license cost. There are no published rate or usage-based
  charges for any endpoint.
notes: >-
  Pay-what-you-want amounts are set by the user and are not published as fixed
  tiers. Verify current hosted-service donation/payment options on the
  dashboard during reconciliation.
sources:
- https://counter.dev/
- https://github.com/ihucos/counter.dev
- https://github.com/ihucos/counter.dev-selfhost
plans:
- id: counter-dev-hosted
  name: Hosted (Pay What You Want)
  type: free
  description: >-
    Free hosted web analytics on counter.dev with no credit card required.
    Users may voluntarily pay any amount whenever they choose. Includes the
    public tracking endpoints and token/session-authenticated stats access.
  entries:
  - label: Hosted Analytics
    name: hosted_analytics
    type: free
    metric: requests
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: month
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: pay what you want
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Tracking / Collect
  - name: Stats / Dashboard Data
  - name: Account
- id: counter-dev-selfhost
  name: Self-Hosted (Open Source)
  type: free
  description: >-
    Run the AGPL-3.0 Counter server yourself (Go server, Redis, optional SQL
    archive). No license fee; you bear only your own infrastructure costs.
  entries:
  - label: Self-Hosted License
    name: selfhost_license
    type: free
    metric: contract
    limit: -1
    timeFrame: year
    geo: global
    unit: 1
    price: free (AGPL-3.0)
    userMultiplied: false
  elements:
  - name: Self-Hosted Deployment
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com