Free plan ends
Core retired 31 Mar 2026
Existing Core users must move to Business (from €35/mo) or Enterprise.
vs Piwik PRO
EU hosting is the beginning, not the finish line.
Updated · By Rafa Jiménez, Founder, Sealmetrics
Piwik PRO runs in Europe — that's good. But it still uses cookies, requires consent, and loses the same EU traffic GA4 loses. Sealmetrics solves the root problem: the architecture, not just the hosting.
No migration · Run in parallel · You decide
The gap
Where Piwik PRO falls short.
Piwik PRO offers EU-hosted analytics but is still cookie-based by default. The free Core plan is being retired on 31 March 2026, Business starts at €35/month and Enterprise is quote-only. The architecture is closer to GA4 than you'd expect — just hosted on European servers.
Quote-only
Enterprise pricing
No published Enterprise rate — every deal is negotiated individually.
Cookie-based
Same consent dependency
40–60% EU traffic still lost to rejection under a banner.
By configuration
Consentless mode is a setting
Compliance depends on holding the configuration, and on the jurisdiction reading it.
Comparison
Feature by feature. No spin.
The honest comparison against Piwik PRO. Acknowledges its strengths; clear about where it falls short for modern European eCommerce.
Technical & data capture
| Capability | Piwik PRO | Sealmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| Data capture | ||
| Cookies | Yes · opt-in required | None |
| Consent banner needed | Yes | No · GDPR by architecture |
| EU traffic captured | 60% typical with banner | 100% captured |
| Infrastructure | ||
| Data residency | EU (Germany options) | EU (Dublin) |
| Schrems II | Clean | Clean |
| Tracker performance (measured) | ||
| Script weight on the wire (gzip) | ~26 KB · ppms.js | 1.1 KB · ~24× lighter |
| JavaScript parsed on the device | ~67 KB | 2.0 KB |
Pricing & customer success
| Capability | Piwik PRO | Sealmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Entry plan | Business from €35/mo · free Core retired 31 Mar 2026 | €499/mo from Growth |
| Enterprise pricing | Quote-only · negotiated per deal, no published rate | Published pricing at every tier |
| Implementation support | Enterprise-only | Founder-led on all plans |
| Where Piwik PRO is the better choice | ||
| Product scope | Analytics + CDP + Tag Manager in one contract | Analytics only — pair with Segment or Rudderstack for CDP |
| Visitor-level analysis | Available when you accept the consent banner | Not offered — aggregate event measurement by design |
| Regulated-sector track record | HIPAA options, public-sector deployments | EU-hosted · DPA and TPSR · no sector certification |
| Customer success | ||
| Onboarding | Guided on enterprise contracts | Founder-led · 15-minute install |
| Support | Tiered · SLAs on enterprise | Direct support on every plan |
Reporting
| Capability | Piwik PRO | Sealmetrics |
|---|---|---|
| Modern stack | ||
| MCP / AI integration | Official MCP, beta since May 2026 · Analytics, CDP and Tag Manager | Native · managed · all plans |
| What the agent can read | Post-consent subset, or consentless data with visitor-level reports off | 100% of events |
| BigQuery export | Enterprise add-on | Included from Growth |
| Reporting parity | ||
| Prebuilt reports | Full classic reporting UI · mature | Decision-ready defaults · channels, funnels, pages |
| Reporting in consentless mode | Consentless mode drops visitor-level reports | Full reporting · always cookieless |
| Custom analysis | Segments + custom reports | Segments + property breakdowns · BigQuery for deep dives |
Not "Piwik PRO is broken". It works for its original use case. For deciding with complete data in today's European context, it falls short. Run both 30 days and decide.
FAQ
The objections, answered.
What CMOs and CTOs ask before switching from Piwik PRO.
Still have questions? Our team — including the founder — is one message away.
Talk to us →Switched from a cookie-based EU analytics stack
How Dreamplace Hotels traded configuration for clarity.
“What it gives us is what we've always needed: data as real as possible, as close to reality as possible.”
Eduardo Martin · Analytics & Campaigns · Dreamplace Hotels
Dreamplace moved off a cookie-based EU analytics stack to Sealmetrics. Aggregate channel revenue began reconciling with the PMS within the first week. The reporting conversation shifted from "which number is real" to which channels actually drove the bookings — the original purpose of analytics, restored.
Read the full Dreamplace case study →EU hosting plus complete capture.
30 minutes. We run your site through Sealmetrics and Piwik PRO simultaneously. You see how much of your EU traffic Piwik PRO's banner still loses.
Built by a founder · supported by a founder · EU-hosted by design
How we compared
Methodology + sources
- Sources
- Public vendor documentation for Piwik PRO (pricing, feature lists, EU data residency statements). G2 and Capterra reviews referenced where they illuminate workflow differences. Sealmetrics data points come from our own architecture and from named customer audits (Palladium Hotel Group, Dreamplace Hotels).
- Pricing as of
- Pricing data is current as of . Vendor pricing changes; we review quarterly and re-anchor on every major competitor release. Sealmetrics pricing comes from /pricing (single source of truth).
- Disclosure
- Sealmetrics is our product. We built this comparison to be useful even if you don’t choose us — every competitor mention is verifiable against its public documentation. If you find a fact that’s wrong or has changed, write to us and we’ll correct it within 48 hours.
- Update cadence
- Reviewed quarterly. Flagged for immediate update when a competitor ships a major change (pricing, EU hosting, attribution model). The page “updated” date below the H1 reflects the most recent edit.
The single source of truth eCommerce signs against
Dreamplace Hotels recovered +30% more traffic vs GA4 and closed a 15–20% gap in sales attribution against their CRM. Palladium Hotel Group recovered 35% of unattributed bookings and improved Display CPS by +165%.
