DataFast vs Analytics
Plausible Analytics is the stronger choice when open-source deployment, cookie-free aggregate measurement, and control over hosting or raw data matter most. DataFast remains the better fit for teams centered on identifiable visitor journeys and revenue attribution across its documented payment, advertising, and web-to-app connections. The main tradeoff is privacy-oriented aggregate analytics versus DataFast’s more专门的
Decision guide
The practical reasons to choose either option, based on documented capabilities.
Choose Analytics if
- Teams requiring an auditable, AGPL-licensed analytics system they can self-host
- Privacy-sensitive sites that require cookie-free analytics without persistent identifiers
- Organizations wanting simple traffic, source, page, goal, conversion, and real-time reporting in one system
Stay with DataFast if
- Long-lived individual visitor journeys or cross-device tracking are required; Plausible states that it does not track individuals or use persistent identifiers
- Self-hosting is required together with marketing funnels or ecommerce revenue goals; those features are excluded from Plausible Community Edition
- Workflows depend on DataFast’s documented native payment connections, Meta Ads attribution, web-to-app tracking, CLI, or MCP access; equivalent coverage is not established by the supplied Plausible sources
Deployment and operations
Plausible is available as a managed cloud service or a self-hosted Community Edition. CE is licensed under AGPLv3 or later, while its browser tracker is MIT-licensed. Self-hosters must provide and maintain their own server, capacity, uptime, backups, security, and upgrades; CE receives long-term releases twice yearly and community support only. The documented stack uses Elixir/Phoenix, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, React, and Tailwind CSS. No Docker or Kubernetes support is established by the supplied
Feature fit
What Analytics covers
- Traffic-source and page analytics
- Goals and conversion tracking
- Revenue attribution, with edition differences
- Conversion funnels, with edition differences
- Real-time traffic reporting
- Google Search Console integration
- Event and statistics APIs
- Public dashboard sharing
- Email reporting
What’s different or missing
- Persistent individual tracking
- Cross-device visitor tracking
- Marketing funnels in Community Edition
- Ecommerce revenue goals in Community Edition
- Documented Meta Ads integration
- Documented native payment-provider connections
- Documented web-to-app journey tracking
- Documented CLI or MCP access
Project snapshot
- GitHub stars
- 28,568
- Contributors
- 117
- Language
- Elixir
- Last commit
- Aug 13, 2026
- Latest release
- May 15, 2026
Categories: Product Analytics, Web Analytics
Sources and editorial review16 linked sources
Public documentation supports this comparison. Automation assists collection and classification; editorial standards and corrections remain the responsibility of Kris.
Open source, privacy-first web analytics. Lightweight, cookie-free Google Analytics alternative. Self-hosted or cloud.
repository description · github.comTrack goals, conversions, revenue attribution and funnels using custom events and dimensions.
readme · github.comMonitor live traffic and understand what’s happening on your site as it happens.
readme · github.comIntegrate with Google Search Console to get accurate keyword data directly in your dashboard.
readme · github.comSend events directly via our API and export your stats using the stats API or CSV.
readme · github.comshare dashboards publicly or with anyone using a simple link.
readme · github.comAvailable in managed cloud or self-hosted community edition.
readme · github.comPlausible provides simple web analytics... All key insights are on a single page.
readme · github.comNo personal data or IP addresses are stored, and no cookies or persistent identifiers are used.
verdict · github.comTrack goals, conversions, revenue attribution and funnels using custom events and dimensions.
shared feature · github.comAvailable in managed cloud or self-hosted community edition.
deployment · github.comPlausible CE is open source under the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 (AGPLv3) or any later version.
deployment · github.comPremium features (marketing funnels, ecommerce revenue goals, SSO and sites API) are not available in order to help support the project's long-term sustainability
consider original · github.comYou do it all yourself. You need to get a server and you need to manage your infrastructure. You are responsible for installation, maintenance, upgrades, server capacity, uptime, backup, security, stability, consistency, loading time and so on.
deployment · github.comIt's a long term release
deployment · github.comPlausible CE is a community supported project and there are no guarantees that you will get support from the creators of Plausible to troubleshoot your self-hosting issues.
deployment · github.com
