Simple Analytics Free Plan: free credits and offers
Best offer on record: Free plan (hobby tier), free forever. 4 verified findings, checked 2026-10-22.
Offers
Free plan (hobby tier), free forever high confidence
Free plan at $0/€0 'Free forever', targeted at side projects and blogs. Exact limits read today: 1 user, up to 5 websites, 1-month data history ('the last 30 days'). Unlimited pageviews subject to a fair-use policy. Exclusions: no events, no goals, no Stats API access. A Simple Analytics badge must remain in the site footer (customizable at /badges); badge checks start ~14 days after the site's first analytics visit and run roughly every 30 days — a missing badge gives a 14-day warning, then locks dashboard data, API, exports, public dashboards and embedded charts while event collection continues. Paid plans do not require the badge; upgrading removes the obligation.
Eligibility
Anyone; no credit card required, no region limits, no student/startup status needed. For hobby sites, not commercial use in practice.
How to claim
Sign up at simpleanalytics.com (#signup / pricing page) and select the Free plan; no card, no payment. Generate and embed the badge from the /badges builder, keep it visible and linking back to Simple Analytics on every page.
Expiry
Indefinite ('Free forever'); the badge is the funding mechanism — the badge page states it keeps the Free plan available, so the offer is tied to continued badge display.
Gotchas
Trial-vs-free: this is a permanent free tier, not a trial. No CC required. Gotchas: mandatory badge with lockout (data/API/export locked, collection continues) if removed; only 30 days of history; 1 user / 5 websites; events, goals and APIs are paid features only; 'unlimited' pageviews are capped by an unquantified fair-use policy.
14-day free trial of paid self-serve plans, no credit card high confidence
Self-serve paid (Simple) plans: usage-based tiers by combined pageviews + events/month. pricing.md (USD): $15/mo ≤20k, $20/mo ≤100k, $30/mo ≤250k, $40/mo ≤500k, $60/mo ≤1M, $80/mo ≤2M, $120/mo ≤5M, $160/mo ≤10M, then +$16 per extra 1M. Yearly billing = 10× monthly (2 months free). 1 user included, +$20/mo per extra user, up to 10 websites, 3 email reports, 3 years (1,096 days) of data retention. 14-day trial with no credit card required and 'advanced features' unrestricted; payment details only after the trial.
Eligibility
Anyone; no card required to start the trial. Paid plans are for production/commercial use (free tier is for hobby).
How to claim
Start from the signup/pricing page, pick a paid tier, complete the 14-day trial (no CC), then add payment. Annual plans: pay 10× monthly for 2 months free.
Expiry
Trial is fixed 14 days; no auto-renew during trial; cancel any time, access retained through paid period.
Gotchas
It's a trial, not a free tier — CC/payment is required after 14 days. Usage-based overage: fees follow pageviews+events volume; for yearly plans data points reset after a year and excess emails a notice. Numbers differ between the HTML page (shown as €20/mo base with a 100k–2.5M slider) and pricing.md (USD tiers from $15/mo, up to 10M+) — likely currency display vs. the machine-readable list; treat pricing.md as the exact tier schedule. Bitcoin payment adds +10% surcharge (yearly only); bank transfer bills ≥€500 add +10%.
No student, education, or startup program exists high confidence
Verified today: no student/education license, .edu email offer, startup program or funding-cap offer appears anywhere on the official site. The homepage navigation lists no such page; /startups and /education both return HTTP 404; the pricing page and machine-readable pricing.md explicitly contain no mention of student, education, startup or nonprofit discounts; docs billing sections (change-plan, cancel-account, free-plan-badge) have none either.
Eligibility
N/A — no program exists to claim. Students and startups can only use the universal Free plan or the 14-day trial.
How to claim
Nothing to claim; both candidate URLs 404 and no signup path, email offer or discount code is advertised.
Expiry
N/A
Gotchas
If a student/startup offer was ever rumored, it is not present on the site as of 2026-10-22; do not assume .edu discounts (no education license found).
Enterprise 30-day free proof-of-concept (assisted) high confidence
Enterprise tier (custom pricing) offers a free 30-day assisted POC run alongside GA4 — setup support, proxy and custom-domain assistance included, campaign comparisons, API & BI access. Not self-serve: it is arranged by booking a demo. Also available as a free evaluation path, though aimed at larger organizations rather than students/startups.
Eligibility
Organizations pursuing Enterprise; arranged via demo/consultation, not self-serve; no student/startup-specific criteria published.
How to claim
Book an Enterprise demo; the 30-day POC runs in parallel with GA4 with assisted setup at no cost.
Expiry
Fixed 30 days; after POC, custom-pricing engagement.
Gotchas
Not a free tier: post-POC pricing is custom/procurement-based, and security/compliance/SSO workflows (Okta, Microsoft Entra) sit in Enterprise docs.
No 2025–2026 sunset of any student/startup/education program found: the Free plan is marketed as 'Free forever' and no such program page exists (/startups, /education both 404; no mention in pricing, pricing.md, docs or homepage). No plan-structure change announcements appear in the blog index page 1 fetched 2026-10-22 (its 2025 posts cover EU consent/GDPR topics, not pricing). The notable 2025–2026-era structure visible today is the usage-based self-serve tier ladder in pricing.md ($15–$160/mo by pageviews+events, yearly = 10× monthly) versus the HTML pricing page's €20/mo base display — a currency/display discrepancy rather than a confirmed price cut; if exact EUR numbers are needed, check the live pricing page in EUR locale. Verification caveat: live web search was unavailable for this run (session search budget exhausted), so all verification was done by fetching the official site's pages directly on 2026-10-22; no third-party or archive corroboration was possible.