Analytics and monitoring
Plausible alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
plausible/analyticsthe vendor’s own source★28,372 GitHub starsAGPL-3.0 licenceOpen source, privacy-first web analytics. Lightweight, cookie-free Google Analytics alternative. Self-hosted or cloud.Open on GitHub ↗umami-software/umami★38,089 GitHub starsMIT licenceSelf-hosted, privacy-first web analytics with lightweight tracking, event ingestion, and dashboard reporting.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Managed hosting, uptime SLA and operational scaling
- Managed backups and incident response
- Hosted integrations and built-in managed exports at scale
- Priority support and enterprise features (SSO, managed proxy) unless self-implemented
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Plausible, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.