Business Idea Critique: A privacy-first analytic app that has a permanent free plan

Google Analytics is free forever, but it costs users' privacy and creates potential legal hassles for the founder. As a result, there are numerous privacy-first GA alternatives that founders use. The problem? They don't have a free plan.

So what about a privacy-first GA alternative that has a free-forever plan (doesn't require self-host) with limitations on like traffic hits? It allows founders to validate ideas without any cost commitment. Once their idea starts to take off a bit, they'd need to pay.

Maybe another angle to think about this is: why don't analytics software have a free-forever plan? The hosting costs can't be that much.

Thoughts about this idea? In general, it's the idea of adding a permanent free plan to existing solutions that only have a free trial.