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Small to medium-sized businesses looking for affordable real-time analytics
Important considerations: Free accounts cover one site and 3,000 daily pageviews; heatmaps and uptime monitoring require Pro Plus or higher.
Publishers, SaaS teams, and privacy-first site owners who want simple reporting without consent-banner complexity
Important considerations: Starter is limited to one site; funnels, revenue tracking, custom properties, and API access require the Business tier.
| Attribute | Clicky | Plausible Analytics |
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| Overview | A hosted real-time web analytics platform with individual visitor activity, path analysis, goals, revenue tracking, heatmaps, uptime monitoring, exports, and white-label options. | A privacy-first and open-source analytics platform focused on simple reporting, cookieless tracking, funnels, Search Console insights, and recent additions like scroll-depth tracking and AI-referral monitoring. |
| Pricing | Free for one site and 3,000 daily pageviews; paid plans start at $9.99/month or $79.99/year | Cloud plans start at $9/month (Starter), $14/month (Growth), and $19/month (Business); Enterprise is custom and Community Edition is self-hosted |
| Deployment | Vendor-hosted cloud | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Small to medium-sized businesses looking for affordable real-time analytics | Publishers, SaaS teams, and privacy-first site owners who want simple reporting without consent-banner complexity |
| Operator | Roxr Software, Ltd. Independent private company | Plausible Insights OÜ Independent private company |
| Company base | Portland, United States · United States | Tartu, Estonia · European Union |
| Organization scale | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. | 10 team members · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 |
| Recent direction | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. | marketing attribution Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution. |
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| Important considerations | Free accounts cover one site and 3,000 daily pageviews; heatmaps and uptime monitoring require Pro Plus or higher. | Starter is limited to one site; funnels, revenue tracking, custom properties, and API access require the Business tier. |
| Integrations | WordPress, Shopify | WordPress, Shopify, Zapier |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. |
This matrix shows capabilities recorded in our catalog. Not listed means we have not confirmed the capability here. Check the linked vendor sources for plan, deployment, and usage limits.
| Attribute | Clicky | Plausible Analytics |
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| Ad-blocker resistant | Listed | Not listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Listed | Not listed |
| CCPA compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Not listed |
| Funnels | Listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Goals | Listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Listed | Not listed |
| Integrations | Listed | Listed |
| Open source | Not listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Self-hosted | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |