Plausible vs Seline (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Seline 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
Plausible grades higher on ease of use. Seline grades higher on value for money and features. 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.
Plausible
Cookie-free, privacy-first website analytics made and hosted in the EU
Seline
Cookieless web analytics with visitor journeys and an AI chat
Which one is for you
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
Pick Seline if
- Fits if you want one plan with every feature and a pay-by-events price
- Works for small sites that don't want cookies
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you want free, since there's only a 7-day trial
- Watch out: pricing is per website, though you can link one site to another
- Watch out: pageviews and custom events share one monthly limit
- Pricey if you want setup help, at $99 extra on top of a plan
- Watch out: no mobile or desktop app is listed
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAPlausibleFair | 2.6GPASelineGood | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | 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. | B$9 a month for 10,000 events billed monthly, inside the $13 cheaper-quarter line, and $99 at 1,000,000. |
| Free plan and trial | 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. | C7-day trial with no card needed. No free plan. |
| Features | 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. | BDashboard, journeys, funnels, revenue, AI chat, an API and ad-blocker bypass, all on the one plan. |
| Ease of use | 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. | CNo rating read. A script to install and goals to define. |
| Platforms and integrations | 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. | BWeb only, with a public API and an MCP server. |
| Best for | simple visitor counts without a cookie banner | simple cookieless site analytics |
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: Plausible and Seline. How we grade
Price against what you get
Plausible starts at $7.50 a month and scores 2.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Seline starts at $9 a month and scores 2.7.
They score the same, and Plausible starts $1.50 a month lower. Of the other website and product analytics tools on the chart, none scores higher than Plausible for less, and none scores higher than Seline 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.
- Seline also covers reports and dashboards.
At a glance
| Plausible | Seline | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free trial |
| Starts at | $7.50 per month for up to 10k pageviews, billed yearly ($9 billed monthly) | $9 per month for 10,000 events, billed monthly |
| Free plan | 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. | None |
| Free trial | 30-day free trial of the cloud plans, no credit card required | 7-day free trial, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Plausible Analytics | Seline Analytics |
| Price read from | plausible.io | seline.com |
| Checked | Oct 18, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 |
Worth knowing
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.
Seline
- There is no free plan, only a 7-day trial; the vendor says it is funded by subscribers alone.
- Pricing is per website, though one site can be linked to another Pro subscription to share its event limit.
- Pageviews and custom events share one monthly limit, with the price rising as the limit does.
- Done-for-you setup is an extra $99, and a Pro plan is still required afterwards.
Key features
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.
Seline
- Real-time dashboard
- Referrers, UTMs, pages, countries and devices on one page that updates as visitors arrive.
- Journeys and funnels
- Follow a visitor from the referring link through each page and custom event, and build conversion funnels.
- Profiles and revenue analytics
- Identify users with one call to build per-user profiles; revenue analytics is part of the single plan.
- AI chat and MCP
- Seline AI can query your data, answer questions, create funnels and export CSVs, in the app or through an MCP interface.
- Cookieless tracking
- The roughly 2 KB script sets no cookies; the vendor says no consent banner is needed and the service is GDPR compliant.
- Public API and ad-blocker bypass
- A public API is included, along with an ad-blocker bypass and bot detection, with forever data retention.
Plans
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.
Seline
Pro$9
per month for up to 10,000 events, billed monthly
The only plan; every feature included. $14 at 25,000 events, $24 at 100,000, $99 at 1,000,000. Yearly billing gives 2 months free.
Ways to pay less
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.
Seline
- Annual discount
2 months free on yearly billing
The pricing page marks the Yearly option as 2 months free compared with paying monthly.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Plausible or Seline?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Plausible is cheaper to start with: $7.50 a month, against $9 a month for Seline. Plausible starts at $7.50 per month for up to 10k pageviews, billed yearly ($9 billed monthly), and Seline starts at $9 per month for 10,000 events, billed monthly.
Which has a free plan, Plausible or Seline?
As of Nov 13, 2026, only Plausible has a free plan. Seline 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.