Plausible vs Zenovay (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Plausible and Zenovay share a 2.4 GPA, both have a free plan, and Plausible starts cheaper, at $7.50 a month against $20 a month.
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. Zenovay grades higher on features. They get the same grade on value for money, 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
Zenovay
Cookieless web analytics that traces revenue back to its source
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 Zenovay if
- Fits if you run a small SaaS and want revenue tied to traffic sources
- Works for sites under 10,000 events a month on the free plan
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you stay free, as it is capped at 10,000 events a month and 1 website
- Pricey if your traffic grows, since plans are priced by event volume up to 20M
- Watch out: replay, funnels, error tracking and the API need Pro; SQL, SSO and white-label need Scale at $90
- Watch out: Enterprise is $1,299 a month and up
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAPlausibleFair | 2.4GPAZenovayFair | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | CPro is $20 a month for 50K events, between the cheaper quarter and the middle, and the price rises with the event slider. |
| 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. | CA free plan with 1 website and 10,000 events a month, capped at 350 a day, which a busy site would pass. |
| 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. | BRevenue attribution, session replay, heatmaps, funnels, error tracking and an API cover the whole job of web 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. | CA tracking script and payment-provider connections to set up, 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 an API, MCP server and CLI, and links to Stripe, Shopify, WordPress and Webflow. |
| Best for | simple visitor counts without a cookie banner | web analytics that traces revenue to its source |
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 Zenovay. 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. Zenovay starts at $20 a month and scores 2.7.
They score the same, and Plausible starts $12.50 a month lower. Of the other website and product analytics tools on the chart, none scores higher than Plausible for less, and 1 scores higher than Zenovay 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.
- Zenovay also covers reports, session replay and a/B testing.
At a glance
| Plausible | Zenovay | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $7.50 per month for up to 10k pageviews, billed yearly ($9 billed monthly) | $20 per month for 50K 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. | 10,000 events per month, 1 website, 2 team members, real-time analytics, 14 days of revenue attribution and 1 desktop heatmap. |
| Free trial | 30-day free trial of the cloud plans, no credit card required | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Plausible Analytics | Zenovay |
| Price read from | plausible.io | zenovay.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.
Zenovay
- Prices are set by monthly event volume: the plans above are at 50K events and rise as the slider moves up to 20M.
- Session replay, funnels, error tracking and the REST API need Pro; SQL queries, SSO and white-label branding need Scale.
- The Free plan is capped at 10,000 events a month and 350 events a day, with 1 website.
- The pricing page toggle shows a 20% saving for yearly billing, but the yearly dollar figures were not visible in the page text, so the monthly price is recorded.
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.
Zenovay
- Revenue attribution
- Connects Stripe or PayPal, or accepts purchases through a revenue API, and matches each payment to the visit and channel behind it.
- Session replay and heatmaps
- Replays are tagged with the event behind a drop-off, and heatmaps show clicks and scroll depth per page and device. Replay starts on Pro.
- Funnels and goals
- Define steps from landing page to paid plan and see where visitors drop out. Goals, funnels and flows start on Pro.
- Cookieless web analytics
- Real-time visitors, channels, pages, countries and devices, shown on a 3D globe, without cookies or a consent banner according to the vendor.
- Experiments and error tracking
- A/B experimentation, error tracking and uptime monitoring are included on paid plans.
- MCP server and CLI
- Lets coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and Windsurf read traffic, revenue, errors and performance 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.
Zenovay
Free$0
10,000 events a month, 1 website, 2 team members, Google Search Console integration and 7 days of uptime monitoring.
Pro$20
per month for 50K events, billed monthly
Session replay (60 days), 10 heatmaps per website, funnels, error tracking, REST API, 5 websites and 5 team members. The price rises with the event volume on the slider.
Scale$90
per month for 50K events, billed monthly
Adds Query Studio (SQL), B2B company identification, 3 client accounts, SSO, white-label branding, S3 warehouse export, 10 websites and 25 team members.
Enterprise$1,299
per month and up, for 25M+ events
Unlimited usage, custom data retention, 180-day session replay, priority support under 12 hours and a custom contract with a DPA.
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.
Zenovay
- Annual discount
20% off with yearly billing
The pricing page toggle labels yearly billing as a 20% saving over monthly.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Plausible or Zenovay?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Plausible is cheaper to start with: $7.50 a month, against $20 a month for Zenovay. Plausible starts at $7.50 per month for up to 10k pageviews, billed yearly ($9 billed monthly), and Zenovay starts at $20 per month for 50K events, billed monthly.
Which has a free plan, Plausible or Zenovay?
As of Nov 13, 2026, both Plausible and Zenovay 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.