Offen vs Plausible (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Plausible grades higher than Offen: 2.4 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
Offen grades higher on the free plan. Plausible grades higher on ease of use and platforms. They get the same grade on value for money and features.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Plausible
Cookie-free, privacy-first website analytics made and hosted in the EU
Which one is for you
Pick Offen if
- Fits if you run your own server and want visitors to see their own data
- Works for a privacy-minded site that accepts counting only people who say yes
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want a hosted service, as there isn't one
- Not for you if you can't run Docker or maintain a server
- Too light for full traffic numbers, because visitors who decline the opt-in banner aren't counted
- Watch out: it uses first-party cookies, unlike cookieless tools, and no integrations are listed
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
| 2.0GPAOffenFair | 2.4GPAPlausibleFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CFree software, but only if you host it yourself, which needs a server. There's no paid hosted plan to compare. | 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 | BNothing to pay and no page-view cap on record, though you carry the hosting cost yourself. | 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 | CConsent banner, operator metrics, multiple sites and teams, encryption and retention. Opt-in means declined visitors don't show up, so the numbers run low by design. | 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 | DNo rating on record and it needs self-hosting with Docker, Ubuntu or Heroku, which is a command line job. | 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 | CWeb only, with no integrations listed. The interface comes in English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese. | 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 | self-hosted, opt-in analytics | 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: Offen and Plausible. How we grade
Price against what you get
Offen has no paid plan and scores 1.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Plausible starts at $7.50 a month and scores 2.7.
Plausible scores higher, and starts $7.50 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other website and product analytics tools on the chart, none scores higher than Offen 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
- Offen is end-to-end encrypted, according to its own site.
At a glance
| Offen | Plausible | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free | Free plan |
| Starts at | Free | $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 | None listed | 30-day free trial of the cloud plans, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Offen | Plausible Analytics |
| Price read from | offen.dev | plausible.io |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Oct 18, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Offen
- There is no hosted service; you install it with Docker, on Ubuntu, Heroku or another option from the docs.
- Opt-in only means visitors who decline are not counted.
- Offen uses first-party cookies, per the homepage, unlike cookieless tools.
- The interface is available in English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese.
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
Offen
- Opt-in consent banner
- Visitors must actively consent before data is collected. The banner can be customized in color, shape and font.
- User access to own data
- Visitors can open the Auditorium to review, and delete, the usage data collected about them.
- Operator metrics
- Pageviews, unique users and sessions, top pages and weekly retention, filtered by URL, location, referrer, UTM parameters and landing or exit pages.
- Multiple sites and teams
- One installation analyzes several websites, and accounts can be shared within teams.
- Encryption and retention
- The site says user data is encrypted end-to-end and stored for 6 months before deletion.
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
Offen
Self-hosted$0
Open-source software you install and run yourself; the site says it will always be free.
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
Offen
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, Offen or Plausible?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Offen is cheaper to start with: it is free, against $7.50 a month for Plausible. Offen is free, and Plausible starts at $7.50 per month for up to 10k pageviews, billed yearly ($9 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Offen or Plausible?
As of Nov 12, 2026, both Offen 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.