specification: API Commons Plans
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/Plans
provider: GoatCounter
providerId: goatcounter
created: '2026-05-04'
modified: '2026-08-13'
generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: https://www.goatcounter.com/ (Pricing section)
tags:
  - Analytics
  - Pageviews
  - Privacy
  - Statistics
  - Web Analytics
description: >-
  GoatCounter publishes no priced plan ladder. The hosted service at goatcounter.com is offered
  free of charge for reasonable public usage and funded by donations; heavier or commercial-scale
  use is directed to the self-hosted open-source build rather than to a paid tier. This file
  replaces a 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep scaffold that invented Free / Professional / Enterprise tiers
  with fabricated quotas, overage pricing, SLA targets and webhook entitlements — none of which
  GoatCounter offers.
pricing_model: free-donation-supported
currency: null
plan_count: 1
plans:
  - id: goatcounter-hosted
    name: Hosted (goatcounter.com)
    type: free
    price: '0.00'
    billing_period: none
    description: >-
      Verbatim from the pricing section of the GoatCounter homepage: "GoatCounter.com is currently
      offered for free for reasonable public usage. Running your personal website or small-to-medium
      business on it is fine, but sending millions of pageviews/day isn't. You can self-host
      GoatCounter easily if you want to use it for more serious purposes. Donations are accepted via
      Github Sponsors to cover server costs."
    quota:
      published: false
      note: >-
        No numeric pageview quota is published. The stated boundary is qualitative — personal sites
        and small-to-medium businesses are in scope, millions of pageviews per day are not.
    entries:
      - label: API rate limit
        name: api_rate_limit
        type: rate
        metric: requests_per_second
        limit: 4
        timeFrame: second
        price: '0.00'
        source: rate-limits/goatcounter-rate-limits.yml
    elements:
      - name: Full JSON API access
      - name: Public documentation
      - name: Support by email and public GitHub issues
      - name: Full data export (CSV and JSON)
alternatives:
  - id: goatcounter-self-hosted
    name: Self-hosted
    type: open-source
    price: '0.00'
    license: EUPL-1.2 (modified)
    license_note: >-
      The LICENSE file states "a slightly modified version of European Union Public License
      (EUPL) 1.2; the only difference is that the Compatible Licenses Appendix removes some
      licenses". count.js is separately licensed ISC to ease integration. GitHub reports the
      repository license as NOASSERTION because of the modification.
    license_url: https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter/blob/main/LICENSE
    url: https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter
    description: >-
      GoatCounter is open source and can be run on your own infrastructure with SQLite or PostgreSQL.
      This is the route the provider directs commercial-scale and high-volume users to instead of a
      paid hosted tier. Not a purchasable plan, so it is recorded here rather than in plans[].
funding:
  model: donations
  channels:
    - name: GitHub Sponsors
      url: https://github.com/sponsors/arp242
    - name: NLnet NGI0
      url: https://nlnet.nl/project/GoatCounter/
notes:
  - No paid tier, no enterprise tier, no published overage pricing, and no contractual SLA.
  - No "contact sales" gate — signup at https://www.goatcounter.com/signup is self-serve.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com