
Plausible
Lightweight privacy-friendly web analytics
The Lens
By Erik Loyd, SaaS CEO and former COO/CFO of an AWS Premier Partner.
Updated Oct 2026
Plausible replaces Google Analytics for people who only wanted the dashboard. Traffic, sources, top pages and goals sit on one page, with no cookies or personal data, so no consent banner. The self-hosted Community Edition (CE) is free under AGPLv3.
CE runs on Docker Compose with Postgres and ClickHouse. Plan on 2GB of RAM and a CPU with SSE 4.2 or NEON, which ClickHouse requires. It ships as a long-term release twice a year, and its bot filtering is basic, without Cloud's data-center IP blocklist.
Cloud is priced by pageviews. At 10k a month: Starter $9/month (one site), Growth $14/month (3 sites, 3 members), Business $19/month (funnels, revenue attribution). At 1M those become $69, $104 and $139. Yearly billing gives two months free. CE never gets funnels, user journeys, revenue goals, SSO or the Sites API. Solo: Starter. Small teams: Growth. Larger teams: Business or Enterprise, or CE if the basic dashboard is enough.
The catch: on CE, patching is your job. In June Plausible disclosed a critical unauthenticated remote code execution bug (CVE-2026-8467) via a /storybook endpoint in CE 3.0 through 3.2.0. Umami and Matomo are the other self-hosted picks; PostHog covers the user-level analytics Plausible skips.
Free vs Self-Hosted vs Paid
open coreFree: Plausible Community Edition (CE), AGPLv3, self-hosted, with the JavaScript tracker under MIT. You get the dashboard and the core feature set, but marketing funnels, user journeys, ecommerce revenue goals, SSO and the Sites API are not available in CE, and neither is the Data Studio (Looker Studio) connector. Support is community only. You never pay Plausible anything.
Self-hosted: Docker and Docker Compose with Postgres plus ClickHouse. At least 2 GB of RAM is recommended, and the CPU must support SSE 4.2 or NEON (a ClickHouse requirement). CE is a long-term release published twice a year; the current one is v3.2.1 (May 15, 2026). Bot filtering is basic (user agent and referrer spam), while Cloud also excludes about 32K data center IP ranges. Security fixes reach CE only when you upgrade: CVE-2026-8467, a critical unauthenticated RCE through /storybook, affected CE 3.0 up to 3.2.0 and was fixed in v3.2.1.
Paid: Plausible Cloud, 30-day free trial, no credit card. Priced by monthly pageviews, monthly billing shown (yearly = 10x the monthly price, two months free):
- 10k pageviews: Starter $9/month ($90/year), Growth $14/month ($140/year), Business $19/month ($190/year)
- 100k: Starter $19, Growth $29, Business $39 per month
- 1M: Starter $69, Growth $104, Business $139 per month ($690, $1,040, $1,390 per year)
- 10M: Starter $169, Growth $254, Business $339 per month
- Above 10M: custom.
Starter is one site with 3 years of retention, goals and custom events, email/Slack reports and Google Analytics import. Growth adds up to 3 sites and 3 team members, shared links and embedded dashboards. Business adds up to 10 sites and 10 members, 5 years of retention, custom properties, the Stats API (600 requests per hour), the Data Studio connector, ecommerce revenue attribution, funnels and user journeys. Enterprise is custom: 10+ sites and members, Sites API, SSO, managed proxy, scheduled raw event data exports and priority support.
Cloud starts at $9/month for one site at 10k pageviews and scales with traffic (Business is $139/month at 1M); yearly billing gives two months free. CE is free but permanently lacks funnels, revenue goals, SSO and the Sites API.
What to do by team size
- Solo
- Cloud Starter at $9/month for one small site; free CE only if you already run Docker servers and patch them
- Small team
- Cloud Growth at $14/month for 3 sites and 3 team members
- Medium team
- Cloud Business from $19/month for funnels, revenue attribution and the Stats API; the price follows pageviews
- Large team
- Enterprise for SSO, the Sites API and raw event exports, or free CE if the basic dashboard is enough and you upgrade fast
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License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
The embedded tracker script is MIT, so adding it to your site does not pull your code under AGPL.
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