Plausible vs TelemetryDeck (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, TelemetryDeck grades higher than Plausible: 2.8 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. TelemetryDeck grades higher on value for money, the free plan and features. They get the same grade on 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
TelemetryDeck
Privacy-first, cookieless analytics for mobile, desktop and web apps
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 TelemetryDeck if
- Fits if you ship an app and want analytics without tracking users
- Works for indie developers under 50,000 events a month
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you need real-time data on free, as events process between hourly and daily
- Watch out: prices are in euros and only the Indie step is readable, with higher tiers up to 15,000,000 events
- Watch out: annual billing is pre-selected, and monthly plans are not refunded
- Watch out: the pricing page text would not load here, so the prices are from the listing
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAPlausibleFair | 2.8GPATelemetryDeckGood | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | BIndie is €9 a month for 750,000 events, inside the cheaper quarter of analytics tools. |
| 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. | BA free plan with 50,000 events, 3 apps and 3 months of retention, which a small app could live on. |
| 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. | BOn-device anonymization, a query editor, funnels, retention and SDKs with ingest and query APIs cover the whole job of app analytics. |
| 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. | CSDKs to add to your app code, and no store rating on record. |
| 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 dashboard with SDKs for apps, and links to RevenueCat, Superwall and Google Tag Manager. |
| Best for | simple visitor counts without a cookie banner | privacy-first analytics for apps |
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 TelemetryDeck. 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. TelemetryDeck starts at about $10.05 a month and scores 2.7.
They score the same, and Plausible starts $2.55 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 TelemetryDeck 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.
- TelemetryDeck also covers dashboards.
At a glance
| Plausible | TelemetryDeck | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $7.50 per month for up to 10k pageviews, billed yearly ($9 billed monthly) | €9 per month for up to 750,000 events (billing basis not shown) |
| 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. | 50,000 events a month, 3 apps and 3 months of data retention; events are processed once a day, or every few hours. |
| Free trial | 30-day free trial of the cloud plans, no credit card required | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Plausible Analytics | TelemetryDeck GmbH |
| Price read from | plausible.io | dashboard.telemetrydeck.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.
TelemetryDeck
- Prices are in euros and the dollar price was not shown.
- The Free plan has no real-time data, and events are processed between once an hour and once a day.
- Only the Indie step (€9 for 750,000 events) was readable; higher self-service tiers go up to 15,000,000 events and are chosen with a slider.
- Annual billing is pre-selected and saves 20%; the annual refund window is 14 days and monthly plans are not refunded.
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.
TelemetryDeck
- On-device anonymization
- Anonymizes the user identifier on the device and adds platform metadata such as system version, app version and model name automatically.
- Visual query editor and dashboards
- Build insights visually or with the TelemetryDeck Query Language, and arrange them in custom dashboards and notebooks.
- Funnels and retention
- Funnel analysis from onboarding to purchase, and retention analysis over time.
- SDKs and test mode
- SDKs for iOS, macOS, visionOS, Android, React Native, Flutter and websites; test mode keeps development data out of live data.
- Ingest and query APIs
- A public ingest API and a query API using personal access tokens, which paid plans include.
- MCP for AI
- Lists an MCP server so AI assistants can work with analytics data.
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.
TelemetryDeck
Free€0
50,000 events a month, 3 apps, 3 months of retention and no real-time data.
Indie€9
per month for up to 750,000 events; billing basis not shown
24 months of retention, real-time data and unlimited apps. Self-service plans run from 750,000 to 15,000,000 events a month, and prices for the higher tiers were not visible.
CustomCustom
Custom event volume and retention, custom exports, live support, training, single sign-on and data science services.
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.
TelemetryDeck
- Annual discount
20% off with annual billing
The pricing page's Annual option states a 20% saving over monthly billing.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Plausible or TelemetryDeck?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Plausible is cheaper to start with: $7.50 a month, against about $10.05 a month for TelemetryDeck. Plausible starts at $7.50 per month for up to 10k pageviews, billed yearly ($9 billed monthly), and TelemetryDeck starts at €9 per month for up to 750,000 events (billing basis not shown).
Which has a free plan, Plausible or TelemetryDeck?
As of Nov 13, 2026, both Plausible and TelemetryDeck 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.