Is Cabin or Fig better?

Neither clearly leads. Cabin starts at Free and Fig at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.

Which is cheaper, Cabin or Fig?

Cabin starts at Free and Fig at Free.

Does Cabin or Fig run on more platforms?

Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.

Can I use Cabin for free?

Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.

What is Cabin best used for?

Cabin is most often used for replacing google analytics on a site where a cookie consent banner is hurting conversion and you do not need behavioural advertising data, an organisation with a published sustainability commitment that needs a reportable figure for its website emissions, an agency managing many client sites that wants unlimited domains and branded client dashboards for a flat $45 a month, a developer who wants to query site analytics conversationally through an mcp-connected assistant rather than reading a dashboard. Of those, replacing google analytics on a site where a cookie consent banner is hurting conversion and you do not need behavioural advertising data and an organisation with a published sustainability commitment that needs a reportable figure for its website emissions are not what Fig is typically brought in for.

What can Cabin do that Fig cannot?

Cabin covers Cookieless tracking, Carbon reporting, 1.2kb script, Custom events.

Business Intelligence · head to head

Cabin vs Fig

Cabin

Business Intelligence

Cookieless web analytics that also reports the carbon footprint of your website

From: Free
Free plan: Yes

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Fig

Developer Tools

IDE-style autocomplete for your existing terminal

From: Free
Free plan: Yes

Visit Fig Full review

The short version

Cabin is a privacy-first analytics tool.
Fig is free; Cabin starts at $14/mo.
Where Fig falls short: the standalone desktop app is no longer available or supported.
Prices and features on this page were last checked on 13 November 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Cabin and Fig actually diverge.

Attributes where Cabin and Fig differ
Attribute	Cabin	Fig
Pricing model	Per month by pageview volume	Freemium
Category	Business Intelligence	Developer Tools

Identical on both: starting price (Free), free tier (Yes), platforms (Web).

Not yet recorded: founded for Cabin.

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Cabin

Cookieless tracking
Carbon reporting
1.2kb script
Custom events
Ad-blocker bypass
MCP access
Branded dashboards
EU data storage

Only in Fig

Nothing recorded that Cabin does not also cover.

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Cabin

Replacing Google Analytics on a site where a cookie consent banner is hurting conversion and you do not need behavioural advertising datanot Fig
An organisation with a published sustainability commitment that needs a reportable figure for its website emissionsnot Fig
An agency managing many client sites that wants unlimited domains and branded client dashboards for a flat $45 a monthnot Fig
A developer who wants to query site analytics conversationally through an MCP-connected assistant rather than reading a dashboardnot Fig

Fig

No use cases recorded yet. See the Fig review.

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Cabin

The analytics are deliberately shallow: no funnels, no cohort retention, no session replay and no user-level journeys, so anything beyond traffic and event counts requires a second tool
Carbon figures are modelled from bytes transferred using CO2.js assumptions about grid intensity and device energy, not measured, so they are directionally useful and should never be presented as audited emissions data
Cabin is a product of Normally, a design studio, rather than a company whose sole business is analytics, which puts a reasonable question mark over long-term roadmap investment and support depth
The 30-day retention on the free tier and 12 months on Plus mean year-on-year comparison needs the $45 Scale plan, which is a large jump for a small site that only wanted longer history
Because it does not use cookies or cross-site identifiers, returning-visitor and multi-session attribution are approximations, which matters if anyone in the business is trying to reconcile it with an ad platform's numbers

Fig

Shut down on 1 September 2024. Amazon acquired Fig in August 2023 and folded it into Amazon Q Developer, which now carries the terminal autocomplete
The standalone desktop app is no longer available or supported
The completion specs remain open source on GitHub, but the product that consumed them is gone

Pricing, plan by plan

Cabin

Free

FreeFree
- 1 domain
- 10,000 pageviews per month
- 30-day data retention
Plus$14/mo
- Up to 10 domains
- 100,000 pageviews per month
- 12-month retention
Scale$45/mo
- Unlimited domains
- 5,000,000 pageviews per month
- Unlimited retention

Fig

Free

No published plan breakdown. See the Fig review.

Which should you pick?

Choose Cabin if

You need cookieless tracking.
You want to start without paying.
You also want carbon reporting.

Cabin review

Choose Fig if

You want to start without paying.

Fig review

Questions people ask

Is Cabin or Fig better?: Neither clearly leads. Cabin starts at Free and Fig at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Cabin or Fig?: Cabin starts at Free and Fig at Free.
Does Cabin or Fig run on more platforms?: Both run on Web, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
Can I use Cabin for free?: Both have a free tier, so you can try either at no cost before committing.
What is Cabin best used for?: Cabin is most often used for replacing google analytics on a site where a cookie consent banner is hurting conversion and you do not need behavioural advertising data, an organisation with a published sustainability commitment that needs a reportable figure for its website emissions, an agency managing many client sites that wants unlimited domains and branded client dashboards for a flat $45 a month, a developer who wants to query site analytics conversationally through an mcp-connected assistant rather than reading a dashboard. Of those, replacing google analytics on a site where a cookie consent banner is hurting conversion and you do not need behavioural advertising data and an organisation with a published sustainability commitment that needs a reportable figure for its website emissions are not what Fig is typically brought in for.
What can Cabin do that Fig cannot?: Cabin covers Cookieless tracking, Carbon reporting, 1.2kb script, Custom events.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Cabin: Do I need a cookie consent banner with Cabin?

No. It sets no cookies and collects no cross-site identifiers, and data is stored in the EU, which is the specific reason most buyers switch to it.

Cabin: How accurate is the carbon measurement?

It is an estimate derived from data transfer using the CO2.js model. It is reliable for tracking change over time on your own site and unsuitable as an audited emissions figure.

Cabin: Who makes Cabin?

It was built at Normally, a research and design studio in London, out of work on data, privacy and the carbon footprint of digital products.

Cabin: Can it replace Google Analytics entirely?

For traffic, referrer and event reporting, yes. For advertising attribution, audience building and funnel analysis, no.

Cabin vs Fig

Cabin

Fig

The short version

Where they differ

What each one covers

Only in Cabin

Only in Fig

What people use each for

Cabin

Fig

Where each one falls short

Cabin

Fig

Pricing, plan by plan

Cabin

Fig

Which should you pick?

Choose Cabin if

Choose Fig if

Questions people ask

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

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