Clicky vs Plausible (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Clicky 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
Clicky 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.
Clicky
Real-time, privacy-friendly web analytics with heatmaps
Plausible
Cookie-free, privacy-first website analytics made and hosted in the EU
Which one is for you
Pick Clicky if
- Fits if you want live visitor logs on a small site
- Works for people who want heatmaps and uptime checks in one cheap plan
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you stay free: 1 site, 3,000 daily pageviews and 30 days of history
- Pricey if you need heatmaps, as they need Pro Plus, $14.99 a month
- Watch out: caps are daily pageviews added up across all your sites
- Watch out: individual visitor logs are only guaranteed for 6 months on paid plans
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
| 2.8GPAClickyGood | 2.4GPAPlausibleFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | BPro is $9.99 a month, or $79.99 a year, but heatmaps sit on Pro Plus at $14.99, still inside the cheapest quarter (from $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 for 1 site and 3,000 daily pageviews, with basic reports and API access. History is 30 days, and no premium features. | 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 | BLive logs, heatmaps, goals, split testing, uptime monitoring and bot filtering. 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 store rating on record. You add a tracking script. | 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 plus a browser extension, with WordPress, Shopify, Google Tag Manager, Webflow, Wix and more. | 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 | live web stats with heatmaps on cheap plans | 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: Clicky and Plausible. How we grade
Price against what you get
Clicky starts at $9.99 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 $2.49 a month lower. Of the other website and product analytics tools on the chart, none scores higher than Clicky 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.
- Clicky also covers reports, dashboards and a/B testing.
At a glance
| Clicky | Plausible | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $9.99 per month, billed monthly ($79.99 billed yearly) | $7.50 per month for up to 10k pageviews, billed yearly ($9 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | 1 website and up to 3,000 daily page views, with 30 days of history and no premium features. | 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 | 21-day free trial of premium service for up to 3 websites and 1,000,000 daily page views | 30-day free trial of the cloud plans, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Roxr Software Ltd | Plausible Analytics |
| Price read from | clicky.com | plausible.io |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Oct 18, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Clicky
- Plans are capped by daily page views summed across all sites on the account, not by a monthly total.
- Heatmaps and uptime monitoring need Pro Plus or higher, and the free plan keeps only 30 days of history.
- Individual visitor and action logs are guaranteed for 6 months on paid plans, even though other history is kept indefinitely.
- Pro Platinum and Custom are the only tiers above 30,000 daily page views; the Custom price is not published.
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
Clicky
- Real-time visitor logs
- Every visitor, page view and JavaScript event is listed as it happens, and the Spy view streams live traffic without a refresh.
- Heatmaps
- Click heatmaps are logged per page and per visitor and can be filtered by segment, goal or split test. They need Pro Plus or higher.
- Bot filtering and ad-block tracking
- Filters bots and referrer spam, and a reverse-proxy option routes tracking through your own domain so ad-block visitors are counted.
- Goals, split testing and campaigns
- Up to 30 goals per site with revenue tracking, split tests, and campaign reports that read UTM tags.
- Uptime monitoring
- Checks a site or other endpoint such as mail from several locations, alerts on downtime and keeps a history of outages. Needs Pro Plus or higher.
- Custom data on visitors
- Attach values such as a username or email to a visitor's session, which the vendor suggests for customer support.
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
Clicky
Free$0
1 website, 3,000 daily page views and 30 days of history. Basic reports, segmentation, widgets and API access.
Pro$9.99
per month, billed monthly ($79.99 billed yearly)
10 websites and 30,000 daily page views in total. Spy, advanced filtering, goals, split testing, unlimited history.
Pro Plus$14.99
per month, billed monthly ($119.99 billed yearly)
10 websites and 30,000 daily page views. Adds heatmaps and uptime monitoring to everything in Pro.
Pro Platinum$19.99
per month, billed monthly ($159.99 billed yearly)
30 websites and 100,000 daily page views in total, with every Pro Plus feature.
CustomCustom
Up to 1,000 websites and up to 20 million daily page views; the price varies with the arrangement.
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
Clicky
- Annual discount
Save 33% with yearly billing
Clicky's pricing page lists the yearly prices as a 33% saving over paying monthly for Pro, Pro Plus and Pro Platinum.
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, Clicky or Plausible?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Plausible is cheaper to start with: $7.50 a month, against $9.99 a month for Clicky. Clicky starts at $9.99 per month, billed monthly ($79.99 billed yearly), and Plausible starts at $7.50 per month for up to 10k pageviews, billed yearly ($9 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Clicky or Plausible?
As of Nov 12, 2026, both Clicky and Plausible have a free plan.
Which platforms do Clicky and Plausible run on?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only Clicky lists a browser extension. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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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.