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Open Analytics vs Plausible Analytics comparison

Compare pricing, deployment, product fit, integrations, and capabilities side by side.

Which platform fits your needs?

Choose Open Analytics if

Privacy-focused product, marketing, and development teams that want open web analytics with revenue attribution and AI-agent access

Capabilities only listed for Open Analytics

Important considerations: The hosted service has no free plan. Self-hosting needs Linux, Docker, four DNS records, about 4 GB of RAM, and 25 GB of disk; published images are amd64. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control traffic is intentionally not recorded.

Choose Plausible Analytics if

Publishers, SaaS teams, and privacy-first site owners who want simple reporting without consent-banner complexity

Capabilities only listed for Plausible Analytics

Important considerations: Starter is limited to one site; funnels, revenue tracking, custom properties, and API access require the Business tier.

Attribute Open Analytics Plausible Analytics
Overview An open-source, privacy-first web analytics platform available as a hosted cloud service or self-hosted AGPL-3.0 software, with cookieless traffic reporting, realtime data, funnels, visitor journeys, retention, revenue attribution, Web Vitals, exports, AI analysis, and MCP access.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 AGPL-3.0 self-hosting has no license fee. Hosted monthly plans: Starter $9 for 50,000 events and 1 site; Growth $19 for 500,000 events and 5 sites; Pro $49 for 5 million events and 10 sites. No hosted free plan.Cloud plans start at $9/month (Starter), $14/month (Growth), and $19/month (Business); Enterprise is custom and Community Edition is self-hosted
Deployment Self-hosted and hosted optionsSelf-hosted and hosted options
Best for Privacy-focused product, marketing, and development teams that want open web analytics with revenue attribution and AI-agent accessPublishers, SaaS teams, and privacy-first site owners who want simple reporting without consent-banner complexity
Operator AGHAZADA LLC
Independent private company
Plausible Insights OÜ
Independent private company
Company base New Mexico, United States · United StatesTartu, 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 marketing attribution
Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution.
marketing attribution
Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution.
Key features
  • Cookieless web analytics
  • Hosted cloud or AGPL self-hosting
  • Realtime dashboard and live globe
  • Custom events and funnels
  • Visitor journeys and retention
  • Stripe revenue attribution
  • Campaign and UTM reporting
  • Core Web Vitals
  • Public dashboards and embeds
  • Data import and export
  • AI assistant, MCP server, and CLI
  • Cookieless tracking
  • Real-time analytics
  • Scroll depth tracking
  • Funnels
  • Search Console integration
  • Self-hosted option
  • Open source
Important considerations The hosted service has no free plan. Self-hosting needs Linux, Docker, four DNS records, about 4 GB of RAM, and 25 GB of disk; published images are amd64. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control traffic is intentionally not recorded.Starter is limited to one site; funnels, revenue tracking, custom properties, and API access require the Business tier.
Integrations Stripe, Plausible, FathomWordPress, Shopify, Zapier
Fact check We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-27. We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08.

Capability matrix

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.

AttributeOpen AnalyticsPlausible Analytics
AI insights Listed Not listed
Audience insights Listed Listed
Behavior analytics Listed Not listed
CCPA compliant Not listed Listed
Cookieless Listed Listed
Data export Listed Listed
Data ownership Listed Not listed
E-commerce tracking Listed Not listed
Event tracking Listed Listed
Funnels Listed Listed
GDPR compliant Listed Listed
Goals Listed Listed
Integrations Listed Listed
Open source Listed Listed
Privacy-first Listed Listed
Real-time data Listed Listed
Retention analytics Listed Not listed
Revenue tracking Listed Not listed
Self-hosted Listed Listed
User segments Not listed Listed
Web analytics Listed Not listed
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