PlainStats vs Plausible
Both are privacy-first, cookieless analytics with no consent banner. The honest differences are maturity and openness versus an EU-built, GDPR-focused product. Here is a fair look, as of June 2026. Check Plausible's own pages for current pricing and features.
At a glance
| PlainStats | Plausible | |
|---|---|---|
| Cookieless, no consent banner | Yes | Yes |
| EU company and EU data | Yes, EU-built and EU-processed | Yes, based in Estonia |
| Open source | No | Yes (Community Edition, AGPL) |
| Self-hostable | No | Yes |
| Funnels and user journeys | No | Yes (Business plan) |
| Search Console / Looker Studio | No | Yes (Business plan) |
| Read-only stats API | Yes | Yes (Business plan) |
| Real-time dashboard | Yes | Yes |
| Entry pricing | Founding access (waitlist) | From about $9/mo (10k pageviews) |
| In market since | New, pre-launch | 2018 |
Plausible details as of June 2026 from plausible.io/#pricing and plausible.io/data-policy. Prices and features change.
Where Plausible is stronger
- Open source and self-hosting. Plausible has a free, self-hostable Community Edition and a public, auditable codebase. PlainStats does not.
- Maturity. Years in market, a large open-source community, and well-known customers. PlainStats is new and pre-launch.
- Integrations and depth. Search Console and Looker Studio connectors, funnels, and user journeys on higher plans.
- A published entry price and a long trial. Useful if you want to start today.
Where PlainStats fits
If you want a focused, EU-built product where cookieless tracking and EU processing are the default, and a calm dashboard you read in seconds, that is the lane PlainStats is built for. We will not claim to be the only EU option or the cheapest, because neither would be true.
- EU-built and EU-processed, with a GDPR-first data model. See GDPR-compliant analytics.
- Cookieless and consent-banner-free by default. See cookieless analytics.
- Founding access for early members. Join the waitlist.
See it yourself
The live demo shows the real PlainStats dashboard with no signup. For Plausible, their own demo and docs are the best current reference.