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Directory / Analytics / Plausible Analytics
Plausible Analytics
Cookie-free, privacy-focused web analytics with a single-page dashboard.
Will it still be around?
Health 99/100 · Healthy
Activity, bus factor and issue responsiveness. Breakdown
Can a business use it freely?
Open source (copyleft)
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 · relicensed to something stricter in 2020. Details
Alternative to
Savings proposal
Google Analytics is free, so self-hosting Plausible Analytics won't save money: it costs about $132 a month to run plus $480 to set up. Teams switch to own their data, not to cut costs.
List price: Google Analytics Google Analytics (standard), billed monthly. Standard Google Analytics is free (Analytics 360 is quote-based), so switching is about owning your data, not saving money. Source, checked 2026-10-07.
Extra cost over 3 years
$5,232
Pays for itself
Not at this size
Extra cost in year one
$2,064
Each month
$0 → $132
Show as a table
| Month | Google Analytics | Self-hosted | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Today | $0 | $480 | −$480 |
| Month 3 | $0 | $876 | −$876 |
| Month 6 | $0 | $1,272 | −$1,272 |
| Month 9 | $0 | $1,668 | −$1,668 |
| Month 12 | $0 | $2,064 | −$2,064 |
| Month 18 | $0 | $2,856 | −$2,856 |
| Month 24 | $0 | $3,648 | −$3,648 |
| Month 30 | $0 | $4,440 | −$4,440 |
| Month 36 | $0 | $5,232 | −$5,232 |
Assumptions you can change
Self-hosting Plausible Analytics usually means one small container and a database. Hours are for one engineer; the server cost is a typical cloud VPS with backups and grows with the number of people using it.
Not included: paid editions or features of Plausible Analytics (see What's free?), large data migrations, and compliance work. All amounts in US dollars at list price; your negotiated price may differ.
Health score: 99/100
Activity45% weight
100/100
- Last commit today (100/100).
- 610 commits in the past 12 months (100/100).
- 6 releases in the past 12 months (100/100).
Bus factor30% weight
100/100
- Top contributor wrote 24% of the last 99 commits (past 12 months).
- 10 people authored those commits.
Responsiveness25% weight
94/100
- 97% of all issues are closed (25 open, 754 closed) (100/100).
- 27 of 30 recent issues got a reply or were closed (90/100).
Score v2. How the health score works.
License
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 · Open source (copyleft)
OSI-approved license that requires sharing changes under the same license when you distribute (AGPL: also when you offer it over a network).
Detected by GitHub as AGPL-3.0.
License history
- 2020-10-12: MIT → AGPL-3.0 · Changed to AGPL to deter competing hosted forks. (commit)
What's free?
Enterprise features many open-core projects keep for paid plans.
| Feature | Self-hosted, free? |
|---|---|
| SSO (SAML) | Unknown |
| SSO (OIDC) | Unknown |
| SCIM provisioning | Unknown |
| Audit logs | Unknown |
| Role-based access control | Unknown |
| Multi-tenancy | Unknown |
We haven't verified which of these features are free for this project yet.
GitHub metrics
| Stars | 29k | Forks | 1.9k |
|---|---|---|---|
| Last commit | today | Commits, 12 months | 610 |
| Releases, 12 months | 6 | Last release | 5 months ago |
| Contributors | 111 | Active authors | 10 in last 99 commits |
| Open issues | 25 | Closed issues | 754 |
Funding: github
Snapshot from 2026-10-08.