You want an audit, not another dashboard
Some attribution questions have an end. Whether branded search is incremental. Whether the channel that looks good in the ad platform survives a counterfactual. How to split next quarter. Those are audits, and paying monthly for an audit means paying after the answer arrived. A one-off read answers the question and stops: €99, on a GA4 export you already have, nothing installed and nothing to cancel.
€99 once, excl. VAT. Full refund within 30 days, no questions asked. You keep the read.
Ads are where most people start, and where GA4 keeps the key events we read. They are not where we stop. Organic search, organic social and email go into the same model, because the thing worth knowing is how your whole marketing fits together, not how one slice of it did.
The install-then-cancel route, honestly.
The common advice is to install a cheaper monthly tool, let it collect for a quarter, export what it gathered, and cancel. It is a real option, it works, and it is the right answer in one specific case: when your analytics history is too thin to analyse. A tool that starts collecting today fixes that, and nothing else does.
It is the wrong answer when your GA4 history already covers the period you care about. Then you are waiting a quarter for data you have, paying a subscription while you wait, remembering to cancel, and receiving multi-touch attribution at the end of it. Multi-touch allocates credit across the touchpoints it observed. It does not estimate what would have happened without the spend, which is the question the audit was asked.
Install, wait, cancel
A monthly plan
Starts collecting today. A quarter of waiting, then correlation. Right when your history is thin.
Build it yourself
Free
An open-source marketing mix library and a few weeks of analyst time. Right when you have the analyst.
One causal read
€99 once
Runs on the GA4 history you already have. Per-channel, next to last-click. Right when the question has an end.
For example, ThoughtMetric: Priced by monthly pageviews: $99 (50k) to $399 (300k) a month, or yearly at 10 times the monthly price.apps.shopify.com/thoughtmetric, read
What you get back.
One read of every channel in your GA4 export, ads and organic alike. Every channel carries four fields: what it caused once Direct is split back, what last-click gave it, a data-health score from 0 to 100, and a next step with how to test it. The data-health score grades the read, not the channel, and it is what tells you whether the number can carry a budget decision: under 90, move budget in steps. Full refund within 30 days, no questions asked. You keep the read.
Of the 64 attribution vendors tracked on this site, none of the others sell a single report outright. That is not a boast, it is why this page exists: the option is hard to find because almost nobody offers it.
The questions people actually type.
I want to replace Triple Whale with a one-off attribution read. What are my options?
Three. Install a cheaper monthly tool, wait a quarter for it to collect data, export and cancel: that works, and it costs a quarter of waiting plus a subscription, and it still returns correlation rather than causation. Build it yourself with an open-source marketing mix library: free, and a few weeks of analyst time. Or buy a single causal read of the GA4 history you already have for €99, which is what Causality Engine sells. Triple Whale itself (free plan; Foundation $219/mo and Automate $749/mo on its Shopify App Store listing, or yearly with 17% off) is a different purchase: a daily dashboard, not an audit.Is installing a cheap tool and cancelling it a good idea?
It is a real option and sometimes the right one. ThoughtMetric and similar tools start collecting the day you install them, which matters if your history is thin. The costs are that you wait for the data you are missing, you remember to cancel, and what you get back is still multi-touch attribution. If your GA4 history already covers the period you care about, you are paying a quarter of waiting for something you can answer this week.What does a one-off read actually return?
What each channel in the export caused, paid and organic alike, next to what last-click gave it, with a data-health score from 0 to 100 and a next step for every channel. Key events come from the Advertising tab in Google Analytics 4. Every other channel in the same export goes in alongside them. It runs on a GA4 export, so there is no pixel, no tag and no code change. Full refund within 30 days, no questions asked. You keep the read.Is this just for ads?
No. Ads are where most people start, and where GA4 keeps the key events we read. They are not where we stop. Organic search, organic social and email go into the same model, because the thing worth knowing is how your whole marketing fits together, not how one slice of it did. Key events come from the Advertising tab in Google Analytics 4. Every other channel in the same export goes in alongside them. People usually say ROAS when they mean ads, and ads are a real part of the answer, but a read that only looked at paid media could not tell you how the paid and the organic fit together, which is normally the actual question.When should I not buy a one-off read?
When you need a number every morning rather than an answer once, in which case a dashboard is the correct purchase. When your analytics history is thin or broken, because no causal method recovers data that was never collected. And when the channel you care about is under 1% both causally and on last-click, because the read calls it too small to act on rather than guess.
Your platforms guess.
We run the math.
Upload a GA4 export and see what each channel caused, next to last-click, in 1–2 minutes. The read is yours to keep.
The free finding runs in your browser. Your file never leaves it. The full read is €99, refundable within 30 days, no questions asked. Prices exclude VAT.
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