Attrifast vs Umami
Umami is "free."
Until you do the math.
Umami is a great open-source analytics tool. But "free" self-hosting costs $100–450/mo in servers, databases, and your time. Attrifast is fully hosted, adds revenue attribution, and starts at $0/mo.
Free tier included. We handle the infrastructure.
The real cost of self-hosting Umami
Umami's software is free. Your time and infrastructure are not. Here is what you actually pay every month to run Umami yourself.
Monthly invoice — Umami self-hosted
VPS / server
per month (DigitalOcean, Hetzner, etc.)
Managed database (PostgreSQL / MySQL)
per month
Automated backups
per month
Uptime monitoring
per month (Better Uptime, etc.)
SSL certificate
Let's Encrypt — free but must be renewed
Maintenance time (2–4 hrs/mo)
at $50–$100/hr opportunity cost
Real monthly total
Infrastructure + opportunity cost of your time
Umami self-hosted
$112 – $450
per month, real cost
Attrifast
$0 – $29
per month, all-inclusive
Attrifast includes hosting, backups, SSL, monitoring, and updates. No servers to manage, no ops debt.
The founder's time trap
Two to four hours a month does not sound like much. Until you account for what those hours are actually worth.
Routine maintenance never ends
Umami releases updates regularly. Each update means reading changelogs, pulling new images, running database migrations, and verifying nothing broke. That is recurring time every month, forever.
Incidents happen at the worst moment
Database runs out of disk space. VPS goes down. Certificate expires. These happen outside business hours. Every hour you spend firefighting is an hour you are not building your product.
Opportunity cost is invisible
A founder billing $100/hr spending 3 hours a month on server ops is paying $300/mo — in time they do not log. That cost never shows up in a budget, but it is completely real.
Knowledge debt compounds
Self-hosting creates institutional knowledge only you have. Onboarding a new team member means teaching them your specific server setup. Attrifast eliminates that dependency entirely.
Side-by-side comparison
When self-hosting Umami actually makes sense
To be direct: there are legitimate reasons to self-host. Here is when Umami is the right call, and when Attrifast is.
Self-host Umami if...
- •Data sovereignty is a hard requirement — your data must never leave your own servers under any circumstance
- •You need custom modifications to the Umami source code for a specific workflow
- •You already have a DevOps team that manages servers anyway — marginal cost is near zero
- •Open source licensing and auditability are a compliance requirement in your organization
Use Attrifast if...
- •You want analytics that run themselves — no server provisioning, patching, or on-call risk
- •You process payments via Stripe and want to know which channels actually drive revenue
- •Your opportunity cost is high — every hour on ops is an hour not spent on product or customers
- •You want a free tier with zero infrastructure commitment before upgrading
Hosted revenue analytics. No server required.
Revenue attribution from $0/mo. We handle hosting, backups, updates, and monitoring.
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