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> Above 1 million views/month (which I would say is still a pretty small commercial site) goatcounter already is in "ask us" territory

I can give some context on this: determining a good pricing on these kind of things is rather tricky. In principle this is easy: "cost + markup". But "costs" is actually pretty variable and independent of number of pageviews as such: sending 1 million pageviews on a single path is cheap. Sending them spread out over 1 million paths is much more expensive.

For smaller sites this is not a big deal, but above a certain amount this can matter a lot. I don't want to overcharge "light" users, but I also don't want to undercharge "heavy" users.

Basically, figuring out a good pricing is just hard. One of the goals is to be a viable alternative for GA for at least a bunch of use cases (though not all), and being cheap is part of that. This is the entire reason there's a free plan in the first place: when I started working on this there was no real alternative: you either had to shell out money or self-host, which is too high of a barrier for many people's blogs and whatnot (especially if they're not technical and will have trouble self-hosting). It's all a bit of a balancing act.

> And from a UX perspective, none of them seem to support searching for a specific page to display the stats for. Yes, you can edit the URL, but that’s a horrible way to do it.

That is supported, unless I misunderstand what you mean?