Cabin vs Plausible (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Cabin grades higher than Plausible: 2.8 against 2.4 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
Cabin grades higher on value for money, the free plan and features. Plausible grades higher on ease of use. They get the same grade on platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Cabin
Cookieless web analytics with carbon-emissions reporting
Plausible
Cookie-free, privacy-first website analytics made and hosted in the EU
Which one is for you
Pick Cabin if
- Fits if you run one or a few small sites and want stats without a cookie banner
- Works for people who want carbon figures for their pages
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you stay free: 1 domain, 10,000 pageviews and 30 days of data
- Pricey if you need custom events or API access, which start at Plus, $14 a month
- Watch out: the vendor won't stop recording past your cap but asks you to upgrade
- Watch out: past 5 million pageviews it's a sales call
Pick Plausible if
- Fits if you want traffic numbers without putting a cookie banner on your site
- Works for EU organizations leaving Google Analytics that want data kept in the EU
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want to watch visits or follow one visitor's path
- Tight if you're on Starter, which covers one site
- Pricey if you need funnels or ecommerce revenue, which start on Business at $15.83 a month for 10k pageviews
- Watch out: there's no free hosted plan, and the free Community Edition is self-hosted, updated twice a year, with no funnels or SSO
- Pricey if traffic grows: Starter is $19 a month at 100k pageviews and $69 at 1M, and SSO is Enterprise only
How we grade them
| 2.8GPACabinGood | 2.4GPAPlausibleFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | B$14 a month for Plus, below the category's cheapest-quarter start of $16.58. | C100,000 pageviews puts Starter at $19 a month billed monthly; the $7.50 yearly price only covers 10k. That lands mid-category, and it climbs to $69 at 1M. The free Community Edition only counts if you run your own server. |
| Free plan and trial | BFree forever for 1 domain and 10,000 pageviews a month, with public dashboards and export. One site owner can live on that. | CThere's no free hosted plan, just a 30-day trial with no card. The free Community Edition is yours to keep, but you host it yourself, and it leaves out funnels, ecommerce revenue and SSO. |
| Features | BCookieless tracking, carbon reporting, scroll depth, dashboards, Search Console and AI traffic reporting. The listing shows no gap in the core job. | CVisitors, sources, pages, goals, campaigns, Search Console queries and visits from AI tools, all on one page. It does the page counting job fully, and it's a smaller job: no recordings or per-visitor profiles, and funnels wait for Business. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. You add a script to your site. | BNo rating on record, but the hosted version is a small script and one dashboard page, with nothing else to configure. The free Community Edition is a different story: your own server and your own updates. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, with Google Search Console, Claude, Cursor, Codex and ChatGPT connections and an API on paid plans. | BWeb only, no desktop or phone app. It works with Google Search Console, WordPress, Tag Manager, Google Data Studio and Slack, imports old Google Analytics data, and has an API. |
| Best for | cookieless web stats with carbon reporting | simple visitor counts without a cookie banner |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Cabin and Plausible. How we grade
Price against what you get
Cabin starts at $14 a month and scores 2.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Plausible starts at $7.50 a month and scores 2.7.
They score the same, and Plausible starts $6.50 a month lower. Of the other website and product analytics tools on the chart, none scores higher than Cabin for less, and none scores higher than Plausible for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Plausible is open source and self-hostable, according to its own site.
- Cabin also covers reports.
At a glance
| Cabin | Plausible | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $14 per month | $7.50 per month for up to 10k pageviews, billed yearly ($9 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | 1 domain, 10,000 pageviews a month, 30 days of data retention, public dashboards and data export. | Plausible Community Edition: the free, AGPL-licensed release you host yourself. It leaves out funnels, ecommerce revenue goals, SSO and the sites API, and has community support only. |
| Free trial | None listed | 30-day free trial of the cloud plans, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Cabin | Plausible Analytics |
| Price read from | withcabin.com | plausible.io |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Oct 18, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Cabin
- The Free plan covers 1 domain, 10,000 pageviews a month and 30 days of data.
- Custom events, API access, Search Console and carbon reporting need Plus at $14 a month.
- The vendor says it will not stop recording traffic if you exceed your allowance, but asks you to upgrade; more than 5M pageviews means contacting sales.
- Data is stored in the EU, per the site footer.
Plausible
- There is no free hosted plan, only a 30-day trial; the free option is the Community Edition you run yourself.
- Stats are aggregate only: there are no session recordings or per-visitor profiles.
- Funnels, ecommerce revenue attribution, custom properties and the Stats API start on Business; SSO is Enterprise only.
- Prices rise with monthly pageviews, and sites above 10M pageviews a month need a custom Enterprise quote.
Key features
Cabin
- Cookieless tracking
- No cookies, IP address logging or fingerprints; the vendor says it is GDPR, CCPA and ePrivacy compliant by default.
- Carbon footprint reporting
- Calculates transferred data and CO2 emissions for a site from real visitor data. Carbon reporting is listed on Plus and above.
- AI traffic and MCP access
- Shows which AI assistants and crawlers read a site without counting them as pageviews. MCP access works on every plan.
- Scroll depth
- Shows how far down each page people read and where they stop.
- Public and password-protected dashboards
- Every plan can share a public dashboard link; password protection is listed on Plus and above.
- Search Console integration
- Plus and Scale connect Google Search Console and add weekly email reports.
Plausible
- No cookies or personal data
- Counts visits without cookies, persistent identifiers or cross-site tracking, so the vendor says no cookie banner or GDPR consent is needed.
- One-page dashboard
- Visitors, sources, pages, locations and devices on a single page, with a real-time view that updates every 30 seconds and a consolidated view of all sites.
- Goals, revenue and funnels
- Codeless goals for pages, file downloads, form completions and outbound links; revenue tracking, funnels and user journeys come with Business.
- Search and campaign data
- Connects to Google Search Console for search queries, groups UTM campaigns into channels, and shows traffic arriving from AI tools such as ChatGPT.
- Lightweight script
- The tracking script is much smaller than Google Analytics', with automatic scroll depth tracking and built-in bot and referrer spam filtering.
- Google Analytics import
- Brings in historical Google Analytics stats so older data sits beside new Plausible numbers.
Plans
Cabin
Free$0
1 domain, 10,000 pageviews a month, 30 days retention, public dashboards, MCP access and data export.
Plus$14
per month
10 domains, 100,000 pageviews a month, 12 months retention, custom events, API access and sharing with 2 people.
Scale$45
per month
Unlimited domains, 5,000,000 pageviews a month, unlimited retention, branded client dashboards and priority support.
Plausible
Starter$7.50
per month for up to 10k pageviews, billed yearly ($9 billed monthly)
One site, 3 years of data, email and Slack reports, goals and custom events. Rises with traffic: $19 a month at 100k pageviews and $69 at 1M, billed monthly.
Growth$11.67
per month for up to 10k pageviews, billed yearly ($14 billed monthly)
Up to 3 sites and 3 team members, shared links, embedded dashboards and shared segments. $104 a month at 1M pageviews, billed monthly.
Business$15.83
per month for up to 10k pageviews, billed yearly ($19 billed monthly)
Up to 10 sites and members, 5 years of data, funnels, ecommerce revenue, custom properties, Stats API. $139 a month at 1M pageviews, monthly.
EnterpriseCustom
More than 10 sites or 10M pageviews: SSO, sites API, managed proxy, scheduled raw data exports and priority support.
Community Edition$0
Free AGPL release you host yourself, updated twice a year. No funnels, ecommerce revenue, SSO or sites API; community support only.
Ways to pay less
Cabin
- Annual discount
Yearly billing saves two months
Cabin's pricing page and FAQ say yearly billing saves two months compared with paying monthly. Monthly prices are shown on the page.
Plausible
- Annual discount
2 months free with yearly billing
Yearly billing costs 10 times the monthly price: Starter is $90 a year instead of $108, or $7.50 a month instead of $9.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Cabin or Plausible?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Plausible is cheaper to start with: $7.50 a month, against $14 a month for Cabin. Cabin starts at $14 per month, and Plausible starts at $7.50 per month for up to 10k pageviews, billed yearly ($9 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Cabin or Plausible?
As of Nov 12, 2026, both Cabin and Plausible have a free plan.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.