Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Plausible Analytics
The 20 closest web analytics software alternatives to Plausible Analytics, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 3 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Plausible Analytics? The closest matches are Matomo, Startpage.com and Semrush. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 19 ms
01 · Entity
About Plausible Analytics
Plausible Analytics plausible.io
Plausible Analytics | Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative
Plausible is a lightweight and open-source Google Analytics alternative. Your website data is 100% yours and the privacy of your visitors is respected.
Wikidata: privacy-friendly, open-source web analytics tool
Summary by Claude
Open-source, cookieless web analytics service hosted in the EU that shows website traffic, sources, goals, funnels and campaign performance as a lightweight alternative to Google Analytics.
- Who it’s for
- Website owners, marketers and businesses
- Business model
- Subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Plausible Analytics’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Plausible Analytics
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Plausible Analytics, thumbs down if it isn’t.
Startup Plausible takes on Google Analytics. What it does differently
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Privacy-first analytics you can trust - Analytics Platform - Matomo
Popular analytics tools can miss up to 40% of traffic. Matomo delivers accurate, GDPR-compliant analytics with full data ownership in a platform teams can set up in minutes.
Very close cos 0.925 - 02
privacy-focused online search engine
Very close cos 0.907 - 03
Semrush: Your Unfair Advantage for Growing Brand Visibility
Semrush is the leading platform to grow and measure brand visibility across AI search, SEO, PPC, social, and more.
Very close cos 0.902 - 04
Cookiedatabase.org
Very close cos 0.900 - 05
Compliance Solutions for Websites, Apps and Organizations | iubenda
iubenda is your 360° compliance solution for global data privacy laws. Privacy policy generator, cookie consent management, ROPA, Terms and more.
Very close cos 0.900 - 06
DuckDuckGo - Protection. Privacy. Peace of mind.
The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
Very close cos 0.898 - 07
Flurry | Mobile App Analytics Platform for Android & iOS
Flurry is a mobile app analytics platform for Android & iOS that empowers product, development and growth experts to build better apps that users love.
Very close cos 0.895 - 08
Similarweb: AI-Powered Digital Data Intelligence Solutions
Similarweb is an AI-powered digital data company providing real-time market intelligence, competitive insights, and consumer trends to accelerate business growth.
Very close cos 0.895 - 09
CookieYes Cookie Consent Solution
CookieYes is a cookie consent solution that helps your website achieve GDPR and CCPA compliance easily. Create a lifetime free account!
Very close cos 0.896 - 10
Web Analytics Made Easy - Statcounter
StatCounter is a simple but powerful real-time web analytics service that helps you track, analyse and understand your visitors so you can make good decisions to become more successful online.
Close cos 0.893 - 11
Qwant - The search engine that values you as a user, not as a product
Fast, reliable answers and still in trust: Qwant does not store your search data, does not sell your personal data and is hosted in Europe.
Very close cos 0.895 - 12
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close cos 0.894 - 13
Blog Tool, Publishing Platform, and CMS | WordPress.org
Open source software which you can use to easily create a beautiful website, blog, or app.
Close cos 0.894 - 14
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Close cos 0.892 - 15
company owned by System1
Close cos 0.893 - 16
Laravel - The clean stack for Artisans and agents
Laravel is a framework for building modern web apps and AI agents. Expressive syntax, built-in tools, and everything you need to ship fast.
Close cos 0.889 - 17
American media company
Close cos 0.891 - 18
AI-powered Observability
New Relic is an AI-powered observability platform that correlates your telemetry across your entire stack, so you can isolate the root cause and reduce MTTR.
Close cos 0.890 - 19 histats.com Top 10K
Histats.com Counter ,the free web stats and stat counter, hit counter, free web tracker and tracking tools, professional and free!!
Histats.com, free web stats and stat counter, hit counter, free web tracker and tracking tools, stats counter
Close cos 0.888 - 20
Google
search engine by Google LLC
Close cos 0.892
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to plausible.io’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Plausible Analytics uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Plausible Analytics is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript libraries
- Alpine.js asset https://plausible.io/assets/js/alpine.js?v=1793866405
- CDN
- bunny.net header server: BunnyCDN-DE1-1332
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=AAozkyRHSTNGAgdhkb3ESKMnilJjFz4K_GmaWm-6eDY
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Plausible Analytics adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Google Workspace · not on plausible.io 12/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on plausible.io 9/20
- PHP · not on plausible.io 9/20
- Apple Business · not on plausible.io 8/20
- Atlassian · not on plausible.io 7/20
- OpenAI · not on plausible.io 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on plausible.io 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on plausible.io 5/20
- HubSpot · not on plausible.io 5/20
- WordPress · not on plausible.io 5/20
- DocuSign · not on plausible.io 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on plausible.io 5/20
- Mailchimp · not on plausible.io 5/20
- jQuery · not on plausible.io 4/20
- nginx · not on plausible.io 4/20