Google Analytics Pricing & Free Plan Limits

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Complete pricing breakdown for Google Analytics including all plans, hidden costs, and limitations.

Pricing score: 85/100

Is Google Analytics free?

Yes — the Google Analytics (standard) plan costs nothing.

The free plan includes

  • Reports and explorations
  • Key events
  • BigQuery export (1M events/day)

Free plan limits

  • Users: Unlimited users
  • Storage: Event data kept 2 or 14 months
  • 25 event parameters, 30 key events, 50 event-scoped custom dimensions per property; retention 2 or 14 months; no SLA stated

Watch out: Thresholds and sampling (10M events per query) apply; Large properties drop to 2 months retention

Plans & Pricing

Google Analytics (standard)
Popular
Free
  • Reports and explorations
  • Key events
  • BigQuery export (1M events/day)

User limit: Unlimited users

Storage: Event data kept 2 or 14 months

Analytics 360
$50000.00 · billed yearly
  • Higher limits (100 parameters, 50 key events, 125 dimensions)
  • 1B event sample limit, unsampled explorations
  • BigQuery export billions of events/day
  • SLA

Storage: Retention up to 50 months

Pricing Issues Reported by Users

GA360 costs a reported $50,000+ per year

Google publishes no price list for Analytics 360; it is sold through Google or partners. Partner and vendor sources cite roughly $50,000 per year as a starting point, with usage-based overages.

Frequency: 5%Impact: 6/100

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