Databuddy vs Plausible (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Databuddy if

• Fits if you want cookieless analytics plus error tracking in one script
• Works for small sites under 10,000 events a month

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you stay free, at 10K events a month and 10 AI credits
• Watch out: investigations aren't on Hobby or Pro, and start at Business at $299
• Watch out: events past your allowance cost $0.03 to $0.035 per 1,000
• Skip it if you need self-hosting or yearly billing, as neither exists
• Watch out: Business and Scale prices are early-user prices that may change

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

Databuddy

• Plans are billed monthly; the pricing page says there is no annual billing.
• It is a hosted service only: the pricing page says there is no self-hosting option.
• Events beyond the allowance cost $0.03 to $0.035 per 1,000, and extra investigations cost $1 each.
• Business and Scale are early user prices that stay fixed while you keep the plan; later prices may differ.

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.

Databuddy

Cookieless product analytics

Tracks real-time visitors, sessions, funnels, custom events and revenue from one script without cookies.

Databunny AI analyst

Chat with an AI analyst about your numbers and see the query behind each answer; credits are capped per plan.

Scheduled investigations

On Business and Scale, Databunny checks metrics daily or weekly and posts findings with evidence to Slack.

Errors, Web Vitals and flags

Error tracking, Web Vitals, uptime monitoring and feature flags use the same script as analytics.

Session recordings

Business and Scale include 5,000 session recordings a month, with extra recordings at $5 per 1,000.

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.

Databuddy

• Free$0

  10K events a month and 10 AI credits for Databunny chat. No trial period and no credit card.

• Hobby$9.99

  per month for 30K events, billed monthly

  Then $0.035 per 1,000 events. Product analytics and Databunny chat, without investigations.

• Pro$49.99

  per month for 1M events, billed monthly

  Then $0.035 per 1,000 events. Product analytics and Databunny chat, without investigations.

• Business$299

  per month for 2M events, billed monthly

  100 investigations a month ($1 each after), 1,500 AI credits, 5,000 recordings. Early user price locked in.

• Scale$799

  per month for 6M events, billed monthly

  250 investigations a month, 3,000 AI credits, SSO with SAML or OIDC, audit logs and guided onboarding.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Custom event volume, a security review and an SLA.

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.

Databuddy

• Startups

  30% off any plan for a year

  For teams founded in the last 5 years that have raised less than $5M; the discount covers the first 12 months.

• Nonprofit

  Free Pro for nonprofits under $1M

  Registered nonprofits with an annual budget under $1M get Pro free, and larger ones get half off Hobby or Pro, renewed yearly.

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.