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Replace Plausible?

YES · one-shottable
catalog price reference $9/mocategory 📊 analyticsreported replacement votes 0

Basic pageview/event analytics are easy, and Plausible's own code is open source; the paid value is hosted reliability, maintenance, and support.

the prompt
Build me a privacy-first web analytics tool like Plausible (personal scale).
Requirements:

- A <2KB tracking snippet (vanilla JS, no cookies): sends pageview beacons with
  path, referrer, screen class, and a daily-rotating visitor hash computed
  server-side from IP + user-agent + a salt (never store raw IPs).
- An ingest endpoint that filters obvious bots by user-agent and writes to
  SQLite. One row per event; index on (site, date).
- A /dashboard (basic-auth from .env): unique visitors, pageviews, top pages,
  top referrers, and countries for today/7d/30d, with a visitors-per-day bar
  chart as inline SVG. Fast and clean, dark mode.
- Sessionization: a visit ends after 30 idle minutes; compute bounce rate.
- Multi-site support via a site id in the snippet.
- Node or Python, one process. Honest note in the README: at serious traffic,
  self-host the real Plausible instead · this is for personal sites.

$ open in your agent (prompt prefilled, you press enter) or copy it raw

why people still pay

They pay because analytics must be boring, fast, and legally safer without ops.

what you lose

xbattle-tested bot filtering

xfast queries at millions of pageviews

xemail reports, funnels, goal tracking

xGDPR homework done for you

prior art to inspect before buildingplausible/analyticsPlausible itself is open source — self-host it↗umamilightweight self-hosted analytics↗
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questions
What does the Plausible verdict mean?

The directory classifies the core job as practical to build with an AI coding agent. Use the prompt as a starting point and review the tradeoffs before relying on the result. This research record is not a hosted IVCIFY tool.

What price does this directory record show for Plausible?

The directory records $9/month for Starter, checked 2026-07-30. Verify the source before making a purchase decision. This reference stays outside retail Stack Math unless current matched evidence supports the comparison.

What do I lose by replacing Plausible?

Honestly: battle-tested bot filtering; fast queries at millions of pageviews; email reports, funnels, goal tracking; GDPR homework done for you. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.

Is there an open-source alternative to Plausible?

The listed prior art includes plausible/analytics (Plausible itself is open source — self-host it), umami (lightweight self-hosted analytics). Inspect those projects before starting from a blank prompt.