Piwik PRO vs Plausible (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Plausible grades higher than Piwik PRO: 2.4 against 2.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
Piwik PRO grades higher on features. Plausible grades higher on ease of use and platforms. They get the same grade on value for money and the free plan.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Piwik PRO
Privacy-focused analytics suite with tag and consent management
Plausible
Cookie-free, privacy-first website analytics made and hosted in the EU
Which one is for you
Pick Piwik PRO if
- Fits if you need analytics, tags and a consent banner from one EU-friendly vendor
- Works for a company that must choose where its data is hosted
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want a free plan, since only the 30-day trial is free
- Tight if you're near 2M monthly actions or 20 domains, which cap Business
- Pricey if you need CSV exports to BigQuery, S3 or SFTP, extended retention or onboarding, all paid add-ons
- Watch out: the page lists euros and gives the Business price no billing period
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
| 2.2GPAPiwik PROFair | 2.4GPAPlausibleFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CBusiness is €36 a month and up, roughly $39, in the middle of the analytics range. Enterprise starts at €366 a month, billed annually. | 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 | C30-day trial of Business with no card. No free plan. | 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 | BWeb and mobile analytics, tag manager, consent manager, data activation and anonymous tracking. Raw data is API only on Business, and exports are paid add-ons. | 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. It's a full suite with tags and consent rules to configure. | 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 Google Ads and Search Console connections listed. | 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 | privacy-first analytics with a tag manager | 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: Piwik PRO and Plausible. How we grade
Price against what you get
Piwik PRO starts at about $40.22 a month and scores 2.3 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 $32.72 a month lower. Of the other website and product analytics tools on the chart, 13 score higher than Piwik PRO 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.
- Piwik PRO also covers reports and dashboards.
At a glance
| Piwik PRO | Plausible | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | €36 per month and up, billing basis not shown | $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 trial of Business, no credit card required | 30-day free trial of the cloud plans, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Piwik PRO | Plausible Analytics |
| Price read from | piwik.pro | plausible.io |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Oct 18, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Piwik PRO
- Prices on the page are in euros, and the Business price carries no billing period.
- Business is capped at 2M monthly actions and 20 domains; raw data access there is API only.
- CSV exports to BigQuery, S3 or SFTP, extended retention and onboarding are paid add-ons.
- Enterprise has no published total: the page gives a starting figure and a quote form.
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
Piwik PRO
- Analytics for web and mobile
- Ecommerce tracking, customer journey analytics, product analytics and custom reports and dashboards, with no data sampling by default.
- Tag Manager
- A tag management module is part of the suite, with server-side tracking and tagging listed among the use cases.
- Consent manager
- A consent management platform covers 1 to 20 domains on Business and scans up to 5,000 subpages.
- Data activation
- Visitor data can be sent on to other tools; Business allows 300 profiles a month, and unlimited activation is an add-on.
- Hosting and compliance options
- Business runs in EU-operated hosting in Sweden. Enterprise adds data centers in several regions, US HIPAA-compliant Azure and private cloud.
- Anonymous tracking
- The vendor says its anonymous tracking still records visits when users decline cookies, and it lists GDPR, CCPA and HIPAA 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
Piwik PRO
Business€36
per month and up, billing basis not shown
Euro prices. Up to 2M monthly actions across 20 domains, 25 months of retention and EU-operated hosting in Sweden.
Enterprise€366
per month, billed annually, and up
Euro prices. Three tiers from 1M actions a month with global hosting, SSO, a BAA and dedicated support; sold through sales.
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
Piwik PRO
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, Piwik PRO or Plausible?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Plausible is cheaper to start with: $7.50 a month, against about $40.22 a month for Piwik PRO. Piwik PRO starts at €36 per month and up, billing basis not shown, and Plausible starts at $7.50 per month for up to 10k pageviews, billed yearly ($9 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Piwik PRO or Plausible?
As of Nov 12, 2026, only Plausible has a free plan. Piwik PRO 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.