Plausible
A Plausible alternative
Plausible does roughly what we do and does it well: no cookies, no banner, data in the EU, open source. There is no argument about values here. There is a difference in the bill: they count pageviews across the whole account and have no free plan, we count them per site and we do.
Free plan with no time limit. No card. Setup takes a minute.
Why anyone compares these two
Not over privacy, because on that we are on the same side. Usually over what the bill looks like once you have more than one site.
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There is no free plan, there is a trial
Plausible gives you thirty days without a card, then you pick a plan. The cheapest is 9 dollars a month for 10,000 pageviews and one site. If you run a blog with two thousand pageviews a month, you pay the same as someone with ten thousand.
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The bill depends on traffic
You pick a plan by pageview volume, and passing a tier moves the account up. Traffic does not enter our bill at all: one price, whether a site gets a thousand pageviews a month or ten million.
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The number of sites is part of the plan
One site on Starter, three on Growth, ten on Business. Someone with four small sites pays for a team plan while needing nothing but room for four domain names. We do not limit the number of sites on either plan, the free one included.
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Some reports live in the top plan
Funnels, revenue attribution and the Stats API arrive with the Business plan. We have funnels and goals on both plans, the free one included, because that is the answer to "is this page working", not an add on for larger accounts.
The differences, row by row
Most rows are a draw and are written as one. The ones worth reading are those where there is no draw.
| metuno | Plausible | |
|---|---|---|
| Written to the device | Nothing | Nothing |
| Consent banner | Not needed for measurement | Not needed for measurement |
| Where the data lives | Servers in Warsaw, in the European Union | Servers in the European Union |
| Free plan | One site, no pageview limit | None, a 30 day trial |
| How the limit is counted | We do not count traffic at all | Across the whole account |
| Number of sites | One on free, unlimited on Pro | Depends on the plan: 1, 3 or 10 |
| Lowest price | 0 EUR, then 49 EUR a month for the account | From 9 dollars a month for 10,000 pageviews |
| Funnels and goals | On both plans | Goals from Starter, funnels from Business |
| History window | 3 months on free, 24 on Pro | From 3 years up, depending on the plan |
| Self hosting | Not possible | Community Edition under AGPLv3 |
| Stats API | None, there is CSV export and a raw event copy | On the Business plan |
Which one to choose
This is not a choice between privacy and convenience, because both tools stand on the same side. It is a choice about the shape of your sites.
Choose metuno if
- you have several sites and most of them are small
- you want to measure free permanently, not for thirty days
- you would rather a traffic spike did not raise the bill at all
- you need funnels and goals without buying the top plan
- you want to download raw events month by month, on the free plan too
Choose Plausible if
- you want to run the tool on your own server, under an open licence
- you have one low traffic site: 9 dollars beats our 49 EUR
- you need the Stats API or ecommerce revenue attribution
- history longer than two years matters to you
- you prefer an older tool with a larger community and a longer list of integrations
Questions that come up most often
- What actually makes you different from Plausible?
- The shape of the price list, and the free plan. Their price grows with traffic and with the number of sites in the plan; ours is one amount and we do not count traffic at all. For a small site they come out cheaper, at high traffic we do. On privacy we do not differ in anything meaningful and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
- Can I run you on my own server?
- No. That is a real advantage of Plausible and the only answer we have is: if you need it, choose their Community Edition. We run a service, we do not ship software for you to operate.
- Will you migrate my Plausible data?
- We do not import history. The visitor definitions differ enough that a shared chart would show a step where you switched. Run both side by side for a month and compare directions, not values.
- Will your numbers match theirs?
- Not on value. Both tools recognise a visitor without cookies, but each does it its own way and with its own validity window, so both of us report an estimate rather than a count of people. Directions and proportions should agree, and those are what can be compared.
- What happens when traffic grows on the free plan?
- Nothing. The free plan has no pageview limit, so collection never pauses. The only things it does not cover are a second site and history longer than three months.
See how the bill works out for your sites
The free plan covers every site separately and does not expire. One line in your page and the first numbers a few minutes later.
Quellen
- Pricing and plan limits, Plausible Analytics, 2026
- Community Edition: licence and self hosting limitations, Plausible Analytics, 2026
Plausible is a trademark of Plausible Insights OÜ. We are not affiliated with them. This comparison describes publicly available pricing and documentation, checked on the date below. Prices are quoted in the currency the vendor quotes them in. Plan terms can change, so check them at the source before deciding.
Aktualisiert am 15. September 2026