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Best Cabin Analytics alternative.
Like Cabin's light, cookie-free web stats? Pieowl keeps no cookies and adds product analytics: funnels, retention, cohorts, user profiles and session replay. Your data is stored in our EU cloud.
- No cookies
- Funnels and retention
- Session replay
- EU cloud
Pieowl vs Cabin: which is right for you?
Pieowl if…
- 1SaaS and apps that need funnels, retention and cohorts
- 2Teams that want to see logged-in users across visits
- 3Anyone who wants session replay and AI answers in the same tool
Cabin Analytics if…
- 1Teams that want to report their website's carbon footprint
- 2Simple sites that only need page and traffic stats
- 3High-traffic sites: Cabin Scale is $45/month for 5M pageviews
Both skip cookies and keep their scripts small. The differences are depth, hosting and price at scale.
Why consider Pieowl over Cabin Analytics?
Cabin is a light, privacy-first web analytics tool. It uses no cookies, logs no IP addresses and stores data in the EU. Its script is 2 KB. It also reports your site's carbon footprint, which few tools do. Every plan includes MCP access, so AI assistants can read your stats.
Cabin focuses on web stats. If you need to know where people drop off in signup, whether users come back, or what a single visitor did, you need product analytics on top.
Pieowl gives you both in one place. You get the web basics (visitors, sources, pages, countries, devices) plus funnels, retention, cohorts, user profiles, session replay and revenue tracking. Pieowl also sets no cookies and does not store IP addresses.
Both keep data in the EU.
Key differences at a glance
How Pieowl and Cabin compare on the things that matter most. Checked October 2026.
| Feature | Pieowl | Cabin Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| Key differences | ||
| Product analytics | Funnels, retention, cohorts, replay | Web analytics only |
| User identification | Optional, when you call identify | No |
| Script size | About 3 KB gzipped | 2 KB |
| Carbon reporting | No | Yes (Plus and up) |
| Web analytics | ||
| Page views and visitors | Yes | Yes |
| Traffic sources | Yes | Yes |
| UTM tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Google Search Console dataCabin: Plus plan and up | Yes | Yes |
| Realtime view | Yes | Not listed |
| Product analytics | ||
| Custom events | Yes | Plus and up |
| Funnels | Yes | No |
| Retention | Yes | No |
| User profiles | Yes | No |
| Cohorts | Yes | No |
| Session replay | Yes | No |
| Revenue tracking | Yes | No |
| Advanced features | ||
| MCP access for AI assistantsCabin includes MCP on every plan | Yes | Yes |
| Carbon footprint reportingCabin: Plus plan and up | No | Yes |
| Password-protected shared dashboardsCabin: Plus plan and up | Yes | Yes |
| Weekly email reportPieowl sends a weekly digest. Cabin: Plus plan and up. | Yes | Yes |
| Branded client dashboardsCabin: Scale plan | No | Yes |
| Privacy | ||
| No cookies | Yes | Yes |
| IP addresses not stored | Yes | Yes |
| Data location | EU cloud | EU |
| Integrations and data | ||
| API | Yes | Plus and up |
| Data export | API, S3 or Google Cloud Storage | Yes |
| Mobile apps (React Native) | Yes | Not listed |
Technical comparison
For developers, here is how the setups compare.
| Feature | Pieowl | Cabin Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| Script size (JS)Cabin has the lighter script. Pieowl's replay add-on loads only if you turn replay on. | About 3 KB gzipped | 2 KB |
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| Database | ClickHouse + PostgreSQL + Redis | Managed by Cabin |
Pricing comparison
Pieowl prices by events. Cabin prices by pageviews and sites. Cabin prices checked October 2026.
Pieowl
Pay per event. Every feature on every plan.- 14-day free trial, no card needed.
- Starter: from $9/month for 10K events, $19 for 100K and $69 for 1M.
- Growth: twice the Starter price, for up to 30 sites and 30 team members.
- Over 10M events a month: talk to us.
- Pay yearly and get 2 months free.
- Paid plans come with a 14-day money-back guarantee.
Cabin Analytics
Monthly plans by pageviews and domains- Free: 1 domain, 10K pageviews a month, 1 month of data.
- Plus: $14/month for up to 10 domains, 100K pageviews, 12 months of data, custom events and API access.
- Scale: $45/month for unlimited domains, 5M pageviews and unlimited data history.
Moving from Cabin to Pieowl
Switching takes under an hour for basic tracking. Then you can add product analytics.
- 01Add the Pieowl script
Add your site at app.pieowl.com, then put the Pieowl snippet on it. Page views start coming in right away.
- 02Move your custom events
Where you send Cabin custom events, call pieowl('track', 'event_name', { ...properties }) instead.
- 03Identify users (optional)
Call pieowl('identify', { profileId }) after login to unlock user profiles, retention and cohorts.
- 04Set up funnels and retention
Build your signup or checkout funnel and a retention chart. Or ask your AI assistant to run them for you over MCP.
- 05Remove the Cabin script
When the numbers look right, remove Cabin. Neither tool uses cookies, so your cookie setup does not change.
Effort: Easy
Estimated time: 30 minutes to 1 hourSDK compatibility
Both use one script tag and a simple event call. Pieowl adds identify for logged-in users.Historical data
Pieowl has no Cabin importer. Cabin lets you export your data, so you can keep a copy of your history.
Where Pieowl is a better fit than Cabin
Pick Pieowl when you need more than page and traffic stats.
SaaS products with logged-in users
Identify users after login to see retention, cohorts and each user's history. Cabin keeps all visitors anonymous.
React Native apps
Pieowl has a React Native SDK, so your app and website report into one Pieowl site.
Fixing signup and checkout
Funnels show which step people leave at, with breakdowns by device, campaign and more. Session replay shows what happened.
Getting answers fast
Ask your own AI assistant, like Claude or Cursor, 'which campaign brought paying users last month?' and it answers from your Pieowl data over MCP.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about switching from Cabin to Pieowl. Cabin details checked October 2026.
Is Pieowl as privacy-friendly as Cabin?
Both set no cookies and don't store IP addresses. The difference is that Pieowl lets you identify logged-in users if you choose to. Cabin keeps everyone anonymous. Both store data in the EU.
Why switch from Cabin to Pieowl?
People switch when they need funnels, retention, cohorts or session replay. Cabin is great for simple web stats and carbon reporting, but it does not offer product analytics.
Does Pieowl track carbon footprint like Cabin?
No. Carbon reporting is a Cabin feature that Pieowl does not have. If that matters to you, Cabin is the better choice for it.
Which has the smaller tracking script?
Cabin. Its script is 2 KB. Pieowl's is about 3 KB gzipped. Both are small.
How does pricing compare?
Cabin is free for 10K pageviews, $14/month for 100K and $45/month for 5M pageviews. Pieowl is $9/month for 10K events, $19/month for 100K and $69/month for 1M events on Starter. For a high-traffic site that only needs page stats, Cabin costs less. Pieowl includes funnels, retention, replay and AI on every plan.
Do I need a cookie banner with Pieowl?
Often not for analytics. Pieowl sets no cookies and stores nothing on your visitors' devices, so in many cases you don't need a consent banner for it. It depends on your country and the features you use: session replay needs consent, and some countries, like Germany, Poland and Ireland, have no exemption for analytics. Our docs page "Do you need a cookie banner?" has the details.
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