Mrkr vs Pirsch.
Pirsch is the cheapest paid way into cookieless analytics, hosted in Germany, with room for a lot of sites. Mrkr costs more and does considerably more with one of them.
What is the difference between Mrkr and Pirsch?
Pirsch is German-hosted cookieless analytics with the lowest paid entry price in the category, a high site limit, and funnels. Mrkr is cookieless by default and adds session replay, cohorts, retention, revenue attribution, and Core Web Vitals. Pirsch is cheaper across many sites. Mrkr goes deeper on the one that matters.
Neither tool asks your visitors for consent in its standard mode, so the decision is arithmetic rather than principle: how many sites you have, and how much you need to know about each one.
What the extra spend actually gets you.
Session replay, cohorts and retention, per-visitor timelines, revenue attribution, Core Web Vitals, and AI crawler traffic separated from humans. For one serious site that is a different class of answer. For twenty hobby projects, Pirsch is the better buy.
Where Mrkr is better.
Session replay included
Pirsch records no sessions at any tier. Mrkr records them in cookieless mode, so no consent gate.
Cohorts and retention
Whether last month's visitors came back is a question Pirsch does not answer.
Revenue attribution
Revenue is tied to the source and campaign, which is how you justify spend.
Crawler visibility
One live Mrkr month held 2,946 human pageviews against 25,564 AI and search crawler hits.
Side by side.
| Mrkr | Pirsch | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Privacy analytics with replay | Privacy analytics |
| Session replay | Yes, on every paid plan | No |
| Heatmaps | No | No |
| Funnels | Yes | Yes |
| Cohorts and retention | Yes | No |
| Revenue attribution | Yes | No |
| Cookieless | Yes by default, cookie mode optional per site | Yes |
| Self-hosting | No | No |
| Free plan | No, 14-day trial | No, 30-day trial |
| Entry paid price | $5/mo, 100K pageviews, session replay included | $6/mo, 10K pageviews, 50 sites |
| Site limit at entry | By plan | 50 sites |
| Per-visitor session detail | Yes | Limited |
| Per-visitor timeline | Yes | No |
| Core Web Vitals | Yes | No |
| AI assistant and crawler traffic | Yes | No |
| German hosting | No | Yes |
Pirsch details checked against the vendor's own pricing and feature pages on 2026-08-24. Where a vendor does not publish a fixed list price, this table says how they charge rather than guessing a number. Vendors change packaging often, so confirm before you buy.
Decide by looking, not by reading
The live demo has replay, cohorts, and revenue on a populated dataset. Two minutes there is worth more than this page.
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Where Pirsch is genuinely better.
Price per site
50 sites at the entry tier is arithmetic no Mrkr plan matches. A portfolio belongs here.
German hosting
EU hosting with a named country. Mrkr offers no country-level residency guarantee.
Small and fast
A lean product with a lean tracker and very little to learn. A good minimum.
Funnels at the entry tier
Pirsch includes funnels rather than reserving them for a higher plan.
Questions, answered.
Keep reading
- Mrkr vs Fathom
The other unlimited-sites argument.
- Mrkr vs Simple Analytics
The other EU residency option.
- Nine Google Analytics alternatives
Pirsch, Mrkr, and seven more.
- How analytics works without cookies
The shared mechanism, and its limits.
- Mrkr pricing
Three plans from $5/mo, billed on pageviews.
- Open the live demo
Replay, cohorts, and revenue.
Your first visitor is already here.
Drop in the script and watch them land. It takes about a minute.