How much does Plausible cost?

Plausible starts at $9 a month on its Starter plan, billed monthly. That figure was read from plausible.io's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.

Does Plausible have a free plan?

No ongoing free plan. Plausible offers a free trial, after which a paid plan is required.

What is Plausible used for?

Lightweight, open-source site analytics with a single-page dashboard, EU hosting and no cookie banner requirement. People mainly use it to track website traffic, measure marketing, avoid cookie banners.

What are the best alternatives to Plausible?

The closest alternatives in the same category are Google Analytics, PostHog, Mixpanel, Amplitude. PostHog starts lower at $0 a month. Google Analytics, PostHog, Mixpanel and Amplitude publish a free plan.

Plausible

Privacy-first web analytics, no cookies

Free trialAnalytics & DataSince 2019

from $9/moVisit plausible.io

What Plausible is

Lightweight, open-source site analytics with a single-page dashboard, EU hosting and no cookie banner requirement.

What Plausible has cost

We have read this pricing page 12 times since Jan 2021, including archived copies of it. Each figure below was pulled from the page itself, not from a summary of it.

$6/moJan 2021 – Jan 2022 · 3 readings · archived page
$9/moJul 2022 – Jul 2023 · 3 readings · archived page
$9/moJul 2025 – Sept 2026 · Starter · 6 readings · archived page

The entry plan moved from $6 to $9 (+50%) somewhere between Jan 2022 and Jul 2022 — we read it at both ends and cannot narrow it further.

Gaps are ours, not the vendor's: where a capture was unreadable, or the price could not be tied to a plan at all, no reading was recorded rather than a guess. See every price change we can stand behind.

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Trial length and card requirement are set by the vendor.

Plausible alternatives

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Where Plausible sits on price

Entry prices across Analytics & Data, cheapest first.

What Analytics & Data costsEntry price a month, cheapest first

7 of these 7 prices were read from the vendor's own pricing page. The median is taken across the 7 verified prices in Analytics & Data. 5 more tools in this category do not publish an entry price and are not plotted.

Plausible pricing questions

How much does Plausible cost?: Plausible starts at $9 a month on its Starter plan, billed monthly. That figure was read from plausible.io's own pricing page on 21 September 2026.
Does Plausible have a free plan?: No ongoing free plan. Plausible offers a free trial, after which a paid plan is required.
What is Plausible used for?: Lightweight, open-source site analytics with a single-page dashboard, EU hosting and no cookie banner requirement. People mainly use it to track website traffic, measure marketing, avoid cookie banners.
What are the best alternatives to Plausible?: The closest alternatives in the same category are Google Analytics, PostHog, Mixpanel, Amplitude. PostHog starts lower at $0 a month. Google Analytics, PostHog, Mixpanel and Amplitude publish a free plan.