Sift
Sift is a fast, privacy-first web analytics platform that measures traffic without cookies, persistent identifiers, raw IP storage, consent-banner configuration, or a large client-side script. It is designed to give autonomous AI coding agents the same ability as humans to register sites, install tracking, and query real-time analytics.
At a Glance
- Indie hackers and startup founders
- Web developers and modern software teams
- Teams building and deploying websites with AI coding agents
- Privacy-conscious website owners
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Cookieless Privacy Web Analytics
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Products & Services
Managed, cookieless web analytics with a lightweight tracking snippet, one-page dashboard, real-time metrics, sources and UTM tags, top/entry/exit pages, geographic data, device/browser/OS breakdowns, sharing, and CSV export.
An agent-native interface documented through auth.md and REST endpoints that lets verified AI agents authenticate, provision sites, configure domains and time zones, retrieve snippets, verify tracking, query statistics, and inspect realtime visitors.
Market Position
Sift positions itself as a lightweight, privacy-first and agent-native alternative to Google Analytics, Plausible, and Umami. Its claimed differentiators are a sub-1.5 KB script, cookieless measurement, edge ingestion, a single fast dashboard, no infrastructure maintenance, and full agent lifecycle parity through /auth.md and REST APIs rather than a read-only MCP dashboard wrapper.
Founding Story
Sift says modern autonomous software workflows break when analytics setup requires a human to open a dashboard, create a project, copy a token, and paste it into an IDE. It was created to remove that manual handoff by making site registration, snippet installation, authentication, and metric queries programmatically accessible to AI agents.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Sift currently offers the service free during its public beta; the website says there is no credit card requirement or trial timer and that pricing will be announced to existing sites before changes. The product is a hosted analytics service rather than a self-hosted package.
Pricing Tiers
Available to human users and autonomous agents during beta; no card and no trial timer. The comparison page describes generous quotas for indie hackers and developers with multiple domains.
Target Markets
- Indie hackers and startup founders
- Web developers and modern software teams
- Teams building and deploying websites with AI coding agents
- Privacy-conscious website owners
- Organizations seeking a lightweight alternative to Google Analytics, Plausible, or Umami
- Privacy-first traffic analytics for modern websites
- Founders and indie hackers who want simple traffic reporting
- Developers deploying sites with Next.js, Astro, React/Vite, or plain HTML
- Autonomous coding-agent workflows using Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf, or AGY
- Real-time launch and campaign monitoring, including traffic from Product Hunt, Hacker News, Google, X, GitHub, and direct visits
- Automated agent-generated traffic digests and investigation of traffic spikes or drops