Plausible

What it is for

Plausible is a privacy analytics desk: you drop a light script, read one dashboard, and you can start a 30-day Cloud trial or self-host. Use it when the job is pageviews you start at $9/month (10k, 1 site), not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is the official Plausible dashboard (unique visitors, sources, top pages) from the GitHub product still — not a pricing card. The dashboard itself is ops of Analytics.

Key features

• Analytics — pageviews and custom events without cookies (pricing Starter). One count. The cover dashboard is ops. Scroll-depth tracking is this surface.
• Goals — conversions you mark on a page or event (pricing Goals and custom events). A target, not a raw pageview. Starter includes them.
• Sites — how many properties you attach to one bill. Starter is 1 site. Growth is up to 3. Business is up to 10. A site, not a goal.
• Shared dashboards — a view you hand to someone else (pricing Shared Dashboards). A share, not a site. Growth and Business. Saved / shared segments and annotations sit here.
• Self-host — the open-source app you run; Cloud is the hosted desk (self-hosted). A deploy, not a pageview. Cloud is EU-hosted on the marketing page we fetched.

Pageviews are the Cloud meter. The cards we fetched sit on the 10k monthly pageviews tick; a slider runs to 10M+. $9 / $14 / $19 are the monthly dollars at 10k.

Who it's for

Best fit: indie / small-site teams who will start the 30-day Cloud trial (no card) and land on Starter at $9/month (10k pageviews, 1 site, 3-year retention) — or self-host when they will run the script themselves.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-22 (Asia/Shanghai) from plausible.io (the public pricing block on the homepage; /pricing redirected to the same story). Cloud is pageviews + sites. A yearly toggle exists — do not invent yearly dollars.

At the 10k monthly pageviews tick (monthly billing):

• Starter — $9 / month. 1 site. 3 years of data retention. Goals and custom events. Saved segments. Annotations. 30-day trial, no card.
• Growth — $14 / month. Everything in Starter. Up to 3 sites. Shared dashboards. Shared segments. Shared annotations.
• Business — $19 / month. Everything in Growth. Up to 10 sites.
• Custom — the slider continues to 10M+ pageviews; confirm the live calculator.
• Self-host — the open-source app is $0 to run. You host it in the EU or wherever you deploy.

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Limitations / costs

• $9 is 10k pageviews and 1 site. Growth is $14 for a third site, not a cheaper pageview pack.
• An analytics desk, not a replay suite. For session replay plus DevTools see OpenReplay. For OSS events + optional replay see Umami.

Alternatives

• Umami — OSS analytics with a $0 Hobby cloud (100k events, 1 site) when you want events, not only pageviews.
• OpenReplay — session replay when the job is a movie, not a chart.
• SigNoz — OpenTelemetry APM when you need traces, not marketing analytics.

Official tutorial

Official docs / GitHub path only. No first-party Plausible channel video was listed in a form we could verify by oEmbed on 2026-10-22 — do not embed a third-party walkthrough.

Written path: plausible.io pricing block plus the official dashboard still on GitHub.

Website

https://plausible.io

Repository

https://github.com/plausible/analytics

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is the official Plausible dashboard from the GitHub product still. Dollars checked on plausible.io (Starter $9; Growth $14; Business $19 / month at 10k pageviews; self-host $0).

Last verified

2026-10-22 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.