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See how d8a.tech compares .

Feature-by-feature comparisons with the tools teams usually evaluate us against. Tick the topics you care about and we'll start the conversation there.

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Your tracking

GA4 tags gtag or GTM, incl. server-side
Matomo tracker Matomo protocol
d8a.tech web tracker drop-in for gtag

GA4 or Matomo, as before the original hit, unchanged

Warehouse-native analytics

d8a.tech server

Flattened schema
Real session scope
On-prem or Cloud

Data warehouses

BigQuery

ClickHouse

Object storage & files

S3 / MinIO

GCS

CSV / Parquet

Keep your tags. Duplicate hits and GA4 or Matomo keeps working, or redirect them. No re-tagging.

Sessions on the backend. In our EU cloud or your own infrastructure.

Tables you own. Events and session columns land when each session closes.

What you get

MIT licensed Read, audit and run the code yourself

No event caps when self-hosted Your hardware sets the limit, not a bill

Modern Go pipeline ~7K requests per second on one worker

Keep GA4 & Matomo tags No tracking plan to reimplement

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d8a.tech vs Google Analytics 4

GA4 is the default analytics choice for many teams, but it often becomes hard to trust, hard to query, and hard to govern. d8a.tech keeps the familiar GA4 tracking path while giving you cleaner data, real backend-created sessions, and a warehouse-native future.

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d8a.tech vs Building Your Own Pipeline

Most data teams start by stitching together the GA4 BigQuery export, Dataform or dbt models and home-made sessionization. d8a.tech gives you the same ownership, with sessionized, documented tables out of the box and no pipeline to maintain.

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d8a.tech vs Matomo

Matomo is a proven privacy-first analytics platform with a rich UI and strong compliance story. d8a.tech is for teams that like Matomo tracking but want reporting-ready, warehouse-native data without MySQL archiving, schema joins, or raw-data export pain.

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d8a.tech vs Snowplow

Snowplow is a powerful behavioral data pipeline for data engineering teams. d8a.tech gives you warehouse-ready, sessionized tables from the GA4 or Matomo tags you already have, under a true open-source MIT license.

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d8a.tech vs Plausible

Plausible is a clean, simple dashboard for website traffic. d8a.tech is just as easy to start, free up to 500k events per month, and far more flexible: goals, funnels, custom reports and event-level data in your own warehouse.

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