Plausible vs Tinylytics (2026): which should you pick?

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 Tinylytics if

• Fits if you run a couple of small sites and want stats and uptime checks cheaply
• Works for a hobbyist who wants a public stats page

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want a free plan, as only the 14-day trial is free
• Too light for SEO audits, team access or spike alerts on Zen, which are Ultra at $29
• Tight if a site passes 1 million hits a month, since fair-usage terms apply and the vendor may contact you
• Watch out: pricing is read from the homepage, as there's no pricing page

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.

Tinylytics

• There is no free plan; only the 14-day trial is free.
• Fair-usage terms apply above 1 million hits a month, and the vendor may contact heavy sites.
• SEO audits, team access, site groups, spike alerts and password-protected public stats are Ultra only.
• Pricing is read from the homepage; the site has no separate pricing page.

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.

Tinylytics

Cookie-free analytics

Counts visits, not people: no cookies, fingerprinting or cross-site tracking. Unique hits use rotating salts, and data is hosted in Europe.

Uptime and SSL monitoring

Checks a site from several regions every 10 minutes and emails when it goes down, returns or has a certificate problem. Ultra can check as often as every minute.

Content checks

Crawls pages on a schedule to flag broken links and mixed content. Ultra can add AI spell checking of visible page text.

Events

A data attribute on any button, link or form records clicks, downloads and sign-ups next to page views, with no tag manager.

Insights, reports and public stats

Opt-in traffic insights, a weekly email report and public stats pages, plus filtering by date, path, referrer, country, browser and platform.

Webhooks, API and export

Real-time webhooks for hits, kudos and monitoring events with signed payloads, a full API and CSV export of all data.

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.

Tinylytics

• Zen$7

  per month for up to 2 sites ($70 billed yearly)

  Every feature except the Ultra extras, on 2 sites, with unlimited hits and history.

• Pro$14

  per month for up to 20 sites ($140 billed yearly)

  The same features as Zen on up to 20 sites, with unlimited hits and history.

• Ultra$29

  per month for up to 50 sites ($290 billed yearly)

  Adds SEO audits, team access, site groups, spike alerts, spell checking and password-protected public stats.

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.

Tinylytics

• Annual discount

  Two months free with yearly billing

  Yearly prices of $70, $140 and $290 are listed beside the monthly $7, $14 and $29, which equals ten months of the monthly rate.