Statsy vs Plausible
Two privacy-first Google Analytics alternatives. Plausible keeps analytics minimal; Statsy keeps the simplicity and adds the behavior tools — heatmaps, replays and journeys — plus a free plan.
Equally privacy-first
Both are cookieless, GDPR-friendly and banner-free for analytics. On privacy, you can't go wrong with either.
Statsy shows the why
Plausible tells you how many visitors came. Statsy also shows what they did — heatmaps, session replays and journey timelines.
Free to start
Statsy has a genuinely free plan. Plausible offers a 30-day trial, then every plan is paid.
Statsy vs Plausible at a glance
A practical, feature-by-feature look at both tools.
| Feature | Statsy | Plausible |
|---|---|---|
| Cookieless tracking option | ||
| Cookie consent banner | Not needed in cookieless mode | Not needed in cookieless mode |
| Setup time | ~2 minutes | ~2 minutes |
| Heatmaps | ||
| Session replays | ||
| Visitor journeys | ||
| Real-time analytics | ||
| Goals & conversions | ||
| UTM campaign tracking | ||
| Email reports | ||
| Developer API | ||
| Free plan | 30-day trial, then paid | |
| Open source | ||
| Self-hosting option |
Based on publicly available Plausible information. Features and plans change — always check their site for current details.
Why people choose Statsy over Plausible
Plausible nailed simple, ethical analytics — a single page of clean numbers. But aggregate numbers only tell you what happened. When a landing page underperforms, Statsy lets you open the heatmap, watch real session replays and follow individual visitor journeys to see why.
That usually replaces a second subscription: teams running Plausible often pay separately for a behavior tool like Hotjar. With Statsy, stats and behavior live in one dashboard, one snippet, one bill.
Price of entry matters too: Statsy's Basic plan is free forever, which makes it easy to instrument small projects and side sites without a subscription per domain.
When Plausible is the better fit
Plausible is open source and can be self-hosted (Community Edition) — if running analytics on your own infrastructure or auditing the source code is a hard requirement, Plausible is excellent. Its hosted script is also extremely small, which matters if every kilobyte of page weight counts.
If you want hosted simplicity with behavior insight included — and a free tier — Statsy is the more complete package.
Trying Statsy next to Plausible
Both tools install with one small snippet, so running them side by side is trivial. Add Statsy, compare a week of numbers, and explore the heatmaps and replays Plausible can't show you.
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