etracker vs Plausible (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, etracker grades higher than Plausible: 2.6 against 2.4 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
etracker grades higher on value for money and features. Plausible grades higher on ease of use. They get the same grade on the free plan and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
etracker
Cookieless web analytics hosted in Germany, with tag and consent tools
Plausible
Cookie-free, privacy-first website analytics made and hosted in the EU
Which one is for you
Pick etracker if
- Fits if you want analytics without a consent banner
- Works for European shops that need conversion upload to ad platforms
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you want to pay monthly, because every plan has a 12-month minimum paid in advance
- Pricey if traffic grows, as billing follows hits (about 4.5 per visit) and overflow costs extra
- Watch out: raw data (49 euros a month) and B2B recognition on Basic (49 euros) are add-ons
- Watch out: tag manager and consent manager are separate modules, and the interface is German and English only
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
| 2.6GPAetrackerGood | 2.4GPAPlausibleFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | B10.80 euros a month for 25,000 hits is inside the cheaper quarter, which starts at $13, though not under 60% of it. Pro is 22.80 euros. | 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 | CA 30-day trial with no obligation. No free plan, and the listing does not say if a card is needed. | 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, e-commerce and marketing reports, scrollmaps, server-side conversion upload and exports. The core work is covered, though Basic leaves out the shop reports. | 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. Tracking runs on your own domain and you set up goals and reports yourself. | 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 only, with Google Ads, Meta, Microsoft and TikTok Ads, Looker Studio and Power BI. | 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 analytics for European sites | 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: etracker and Plausible. How we grade
Price against what you get
etracker starts at about $12.07 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 $4.57 a month lower. Of the other website and product analytics tools on the chart, 1 scores higher than etracker 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.
- etracker also covers reports, dashboards and a/B testing.
At a glance
| etracker | Plausible | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | €10.80 per month for 25,000 hits, 12-month minimum, paid in advance | $7.50 per month for up to 10k pageviews, billed yearly ($9 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | 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 | 30-day free test without obligation | 30-day free trial of the cloud plans, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Made by | etracker | Plausible Analytics |
| Price read from | etracker.com | plausible.io |
| Checked | Nov 13, 2026 | Oct 18, 2026 |
Worth knowing
etracker
- Prices are in euros, excluding VAT, with a minimum contract of 12 months and the fee payable in advance.
- Billing follows hits per month (about 4.5 hits per visit); going over costs an overflow fee per thousand hits.
- Raw data access costs €49 a month extra and B2B recognition on Basic costs €49 a month extra.
- Tag manager and consent manager are separate modules; the interface is in German and English.
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
etracker
- Consent-free tracking
- Cookieless session tracking that the vendor says was independently tested as GDPR and ePrivacy compliant without a consent banner.
- Store and UX analysis
- Measures product lists through to orders, and records scrolling so results can be projected onto your pages as a scrollmap.
- Server-side conversion upload
- Sends conversions to Google Ads, Meta, Microsoft and TikTok Ads from the server, on the Pro edition and above.
- Tracking via your own domain
- Tracking can run through a separate subdomain to reduce data loss from ad blockers and browser cookie limits.
- Reporting and data export
- Dynamic drill-downs, behavioral segments, BI and data warehouse sync, plus exports to CSV, Excel and PDF.
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
etracker
Basic€10.80
per month for 25,000 hits, 12-month minimum
For blogs and content sites: consent-free cookieless tracking, dashboard, core reports, own tracking domain.
Pro€22.80
per month for 25,000 hits, 12-month minimum
Adds e-commerce, marketing and customer journey reports, conversion upload to ad platforms, scrollmap and form analysis.
Enterprise€58.80
per month for 50,000 hits, 12-month minimum
Adds Report Builder, a REST reporting interface with Looker Studio connector, app tracking and unlimited co-users.
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
etracker
No public discounts listed.
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, etracker or Plausible?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Plausible is cheaper to start with: $7.50 a month, against about $12.07 a month for etracker. etracker starts at €10.80 per month for 25,000 hits, 12-month minimum, paid in advance, and Plausible starts at $7.50 per month for up to 10k pageviews, billed yearly ($9 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, etracker or Plausible?
As of Nov 13, 2026, only Plausible has a free plan. etracker does not, though it has a free trial.
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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.