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Summary
Addingwell hosts server-side Google Tag Manager containers with tag health monitoring and consent monitoring, and has a free plan with 100,000 requests.
AdPage is a Dutch platform that hosts server-side Google Tag Manager containers on a custom domain and adds e-commerce data layers, webhooks and monitoring.
Elevar is a Shopify-focused server-side tracking platform with a data layer, session enrichment and its own servers on Google Cloud, priced by orders per month.
Pros
  • Free plan with 100,000 requests and a custom domain
  • Alerts and tag health monitoring
  • Event consent monitoring through Didomi
  • Shopify app
  • Published overage rates per 100,000 requests
  • Hosts the GTM server container for you, with a custom-domain CNAME setup
  • Shop integrations for Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, Lightspeed and Shopware
  • Order webhooks from the shop back end, next to browser events
  • Server-side bot filter, geo headers and cookie recovery documented
  • Servers in the EEA (Scaleway, France); Dutch-language support
  • Free Base plan with server-side tracking
  • Built for Shopify, with a data layer and checkout events
  • Server Events Log shows success or error for each event sent
  • Automated alerts when tracking accuracy drops below a target
  • Failed messages are retried and Shopify webhook events are replayed after an outage
Cons
  • Cheapest paid plan starts at €90 per month
  • Free plan is limited to one region
  • Extra containers, domains and regions are paid add-ons
  • Premium SLA only on paid plans
  • No WordPress plugin found
  • Price depends on a monthly sessions tier, and only 'from' prices are published
  • Proactive monitoring needs the Performance plan
  • Exceeding the monthly request allowance can stop the container (429 errors) after 3 strikes on paid plans
  • Billed annually; prices are shown without VAT information
  • Bot filter does not lower request usage and is rolled out per account
  • Priced by orders per month, with overage per extra order
  • Number of destinations is capped per plan, extra ones cost $125 per month each
  • Base and Core plans only allow advertising and analytics destinations
  • Running on your own server or in your own cloud is not supported
  • Server regions are not documented

Pricing information

Starting Price
FreeFree
Pay as you go€90 p/m
EnterpriseOn req.
FreeFree
Starter€49+ p/m, billed annually
Performance€99+ p/m, billed annually
Ultimate€599+ p/m, billed annually
BaseFree
Core$225 p/m
Advanced$650 p/m
Premium$1,250 p/m
Elite$3,000+ p/m
Free trial period
Free plan
15 days
Free tier
100,000 requests per month, 1 region, 1 custom domain
Not documented
Base plan: up to 100 orders per month and up to 2 destinations
Billed by
Requests per month
Requests per month (plans are priced by monthly sessions tier)
Orders per month

Platform

Tagging engine
Server-side Google Tag Manager
Server-side Google Tag Manager
Own tagging platform
Product type
Managed sGTM hosting with add-ons for containers, domains and regions
Managed sGTM hosting with e-commerce data layers, webhooks, monitoring and add-ons
Shopify-focused server-side tracking platform with a data layer, session enrichment and its own servers
Destinations
Any sGTM tag template; docs cover Meta, TikTok and Awin CAPI and offline events
Destination tags for GA4 and Google Ads; docs for Meta (Conversions API), TikTok, Pinterest, LinkedIn and OpenAI Ads; own templates for the data layer, webhook client and webhook matching
Server-side destinations including Google Ads, GA4, Meta, TikTok, Klaviyo, Attentive, Awin, BigQuery and Google Pub/Sub; the Shopify listing says 50+ integrations
Shop and CMS apps
Shopify app (installs GTM and a GA4 data layer); no WordPress plugin found
Shopify app, WordPress/WooCommerce plugin, Magento module, Shopware webhook plugin, Lightspeed instructions, custom CMS code
Shopify app (Plus, non-Plus and headless); non-Shopify and headless sites through a subdomain source
Account Security
Not documented
Not documented
Not documented

Hosting

Hosting
Addingwell runs the servers, described as multi-region on Google Cloud. Listed locations include Belgium, US (Iowa, Virginia, Oregon), Brazil and Singapore.
Hosted by AdPage; tagging containers run on Scaleway (France), with Hetzner (Germany) for servers and databases
Elevar runs the servers on Google Cloud Platform (serverless, with Pub/Sub for message delivery). Own servers are not supported. Regions are not stated
Data Center Locations
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • United States
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
Not documented
Custom domain
1 custom domain on every plan, extra domains €10 per month
CNAME on your own root domain pointing to projects.trytagging.com
On Shopify, requests go to the same subdomain as the storefront. Headless and non-Shopify sites must use a subdomain of the main domain
Same-origin serving
Not documented
Not documented
Non-Shopify subdomain code can be sent through a proxy path of your own choosing on your site (target hits.getelevar.com); plans not stated
Uptime SLA
99.99% uptime stated on the home page; premium SLA on Pay as you go and Enterprise
Not documented
Not documented
Compliance
  • GDPR
Not documented
Not documented

Data quality features

Custom script loader
GTM and GA4 scripts served through a CDN on non-detectable URLs
The Tagging Pixel replaces the regular GTM script on the site and loads from your custom domain
Not documented
Cookie lifetime extension
Cookie maintenance to recover visitors beyond Safari's 8-day limit
Sets a 365-day anchor cookie on the main domain plus a localStorage backup and rebuilds tracking cookies server-side. Safari ITP can still delete subdomain cookies after 7 days, per AdPage
Session Enrichment uses a 1-year server-set cookie; attribution data is also kept server-side. Whether it is on every plan is not stated
Bot detection
Not documented
AdPage Botfilter runs in the server container with hard rules and scoring; modes Off, Monitor and On; rolled out per account
Not documented
Geo and device headers
Not documented
Adds X-Geo-Country, Region, City, Ipaddress and PostalCode request headers to the server container
Not documented
Data enrichment
Not documented
Not documented
Session Enrichment links emails and phone numbers to a user ID and stores click IDs, UTMs and referrers server-side; all plans list session enrichment

Monitoring

Request logs
One-click error logs and advanced logs
No raw access logs per request are stored. Monitoring shows requests sent to platforms for the last 7 days
Server Events Log shows each event sent and its result; retention and plans not stated
Monitoring and alerts
Tag Health, data and cookie monitoring with instant alerts
Proactive monitoring with email and Slack alerts, daily checks and weekly reports; Performance plan and up
Automated alerts when tracking drops below a target accuracy; all plans list monitoring and alerts

Support

Support description
Email support has response targets of 5 business days on Free, 2 on Pay as you go and 1 on Enterprise. Pay as you go includes one guaranteed call slot per month, and Enterprise has unlimited calls and an account manager. Documentation is on docs.addingwell.com.
Dutch-language support by support ticket and email, with an answer promised within 24 hours on the pricing page. A help center at docs.adpage.io covers setup, integrations and troubleshooting. Docs also separate support tickets from consultancy projects.
Base plan customers get an in-app chatbot and a knowledge base. Core and Advanced plans get in-app support tickets with a stated response within 24 hours, and Premium and Elite get priority support within 12 hours. Paid add-ons include implementation services and analyst services.
Support Options
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
  • Phone
  • Email
  • Live Chat
  • Ticketing system
  • Knowledge base
  • Community
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