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Counter: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Counter (counter.dev) is a simple web analytics service that aims to be privacy-friendly. According to its website, it uses no cookies, does not log data and does not fingerprint IP addresses. It shows, among other things, daily unique visitors, referring websites and the geographic origin of visitors. It is a hosted service, and its source code is public.

The software is open source under AGPL-3.0 and available on GitHub; the project is maintained by Irae Hueck Costa, and according to the project, hosting costs are covered by donations. A separate repository covers self-hosting and is described as beta: the application is a single Go program with Redis as its database. The website of the hosted service does not state who operates it or where data is stored. An organisation that needs a defined jurisdiction and storage location can therefore host the software itself, which puts both under its own control.

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Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 2, 2026
HeadquartersDE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryAnalytics
TypeProduct
Websitecounter.dev ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Counter

The European alternatives to Counter come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Counter

Counter is headquartered in DE and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Counter scores best on data residency.

Counter is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Counter together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Counter?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Counter include Ackee, Adjust and Alceris. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Counter?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Counter include Ackee and Aptabase. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Counter GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Counter is headquartered in DE (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes Counter an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 2, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Analytics

Analytics: Business intelligence, data visualisation, web analytics. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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