dashi vs umami.
an umami alternative built around revenue.
umami is open source, cookieless and free to self-host, with a free cloud tier and deep product analytics. dashi is for founders who sell through stripe and want every sale traced to its channel, page and keyword, live on a 3D globe they leave open all day.
free for now while dashi is in early access. no card needed. umami facts checked
umami is great.
here's when.
pick umami if…
- you want to own the code and the server. umami is MIT-licensed and runs on your own infrastructure.
- you want no cookies and no consent banner. umami uses no cookies; dashi sets a first-party visitor cookie.
- you need product analytics: journeys, retention and cohorts, plus session replays and heatmaps on its business plan.
- you want an API and MCP access. umami has both from its pro plan.
- a free hosted tier fits. umami's hobby plan covers 100K events a month for one website.
pick dashi if…
- you sell through stripe. dashi reads sales and refunds with a read-only key; in umami, revenue comes from events you send with an amount and currency.
- you want to know which google keywords make money. dashi pulls search console keywords and estimates what each one earned.
- you want to watch visitors arrive. each one lands as a pin with their city, device, referrer and current page.
- you'll leave it open: music, live weather, globe skins, and cha-ching on every sale.
- you have more than one site. every site sits on one globe while dashi is in early access.
dashi vs umami,
row by row.
| feature | dashi | umami |
|---|---|---|
| price | free for now (early access), no card | hobby $0 (100K events, 1 site, 6-month retention); pro $20/month; business $200/month |
| revenue | stronger here: sales and refunds read from stripe with a restricted key | events you send with a revenue amount and currency |
| attribution | first visit, by channel, referrer, campaign, page, country and keyword | first-click or last-click, by referrer, paid ads and UTM |
| google search console | stronger here: keywords, with estimated revenue per keyword | not found on their site |
| live view | stronger here: a live feed, each visitor's details, and a pin on the 3D globe | realtime events |
| product analytics | funnels, goals with weekly or monthly targets, events | stronger here: funnels, goals, journeys, retention, cohorts |
| session replays, heatmaps | no session replay, by design | stronger here: on the business plan |
| cookies | a first-party visitor cookie | stronger here: none |
| open source, self-hosting | no, hosted only | stronger here: MIT; self-host or umami cloud |
| API and MCP | not yet | stronger here: from the pro plan, and self-hosted |
| sites | stronger here: every site, together on one globe | 1 on hobby, 20 on pro, unlimited on business |
| music, weather, globe skins | stronger here: built in: lofi or any youtube link, live weather, seven skins | not found on their site |
dashi is stronger on that row, umami is, in our honest read. — means we couldn't find it on Umami's public site. Umami facts checked oct 27, 2026; sources below.
revenue, live visitors
and the vibe. on one globe.
tap revenue.
read the receipts.
connect stripe with a read-only key and every sale arrives with its amount, plan, city, device, referrer and campaign. refunds come off automatically.
see which channel
actually pays.
visitors and revenue side by side for every channel, referrer, campaign and google keyword. spend your time where the money is.
your world.
your weather. your music.
seven globe skins, from live day and night to topo and ocean. real weather where you are, or pick a mood. then an accent color for the whole app.
questions
can I self-host dashi?
no. dashi is a hosted service. if self-hosting is a must, umami (MIT) or plausible's community edition are good picks.
does dashi use cookies?
yes, one first-party visitor cookie (plus localStorage), so returning visits and stripe sales line up. it isn't cookieless. whether you need a consent banner depends on your site and where your visitors are.
how does dashi attribute stripe revenue?
paste a stripe restricted key (rk_…) and dashi reads your sales and refunds. to tie each sale to a channel, add the dashi visitor id to your checkout session's metadata. dashi writes the prompt for you to paste into cursor, lovable or bolt. each sale is credited to the buyer's first visit.
what does dashi cost?
nothing for now, while dashi is in early access. no card needed.
watch your revenue
land.
paste one script, connect stripe, leave it open. free for now while dashi is in early access. no card needed.
more comparisons
sources, checked oct 27, 2026
- Umami homepage: open source, privacy, MCP
- Umami pricing
- Umami platform: realtime data
- Umami docs: revenue
- Umami docs: attribution
- Umami on GitHub: MIT licence
Umami is a trademark of its owner, named here only to compare. dashi isn't affiliated with Umami.