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Dataflare vs Cloudflare Web Analytics

Cloudflare Web Analytics is Cloudflare's free, privacy-first web analytics. Dataflare is open-source analytics that runs in your own Cloudflare account.

The short answer

Cloudflare Web Analytics is free and needs no setup if your site is already behind Cloudflare. It counts page views and visitors, and doesn't support custom events. Dataflare runs on the same platform, in your account, and covers what comes next: events, funnels, retention, people, replay and experiments.

Side by side

Feature	Dataflare	Cloudflare Web Analytics
Where your data lives	Your own Cloudflare account (D1 and R2)	Cloudflare's analytics platform
Source code	Open source, MIT	Proprietary
What you pay	Your Cloudflare bill: $0 on Workers Free for small sites, $5/month Workers Paid above that	Free
Cookieless mode	Yes	Yes
Web analytics	Yes, with Core Web Vitals and errors	Yes (page views, visitors, performance)
Funnels and retention	Yes: trends, funnels, retention, cohorts	No (no custom events)
Session replay	Yes, with a text transcript for agents	No
Feature flags and A/B tests	Yes: flags in your Worker, Bayesian experiment results	No
Raw SQL on your events	Yes, read-only SQL in the dashboard, CLI and MCP	GraphQL API on sampled data

Checked November 2026. Sources: About Cloudflare Web Analytics, Web Analytics FAQ. Spotted something out of date? Open an issue.

Choose Cloudflare Web Analytics if you want

Free, and on by default for proxied sites.
Nothing to deploy or upgrade.

Choose Dataflare if you want

Custom events, people, funnels, retention and cohorts.
Unsampled, row-level events in your own D1 database.
Session replay, feature flags and A/B tests.
An MCP server for your coding agent.

Moving from Cloudflare Web Analytics to Dataflare

Keep Web Analytics if you like; Dataflare runs alongside it.
Run npx dataflare-cli init, add the script tag, and add glass.capture() for the actions that matter.