Plausible

A lightweight, cookie-free and privacy-first alternative to Google Analytics, made in the EU, as a managed cloud or a self-hosted community edition.

29.7k stars, 1.9k forks Elixir On GitHub since December 2018

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What is Plausible?

Plausible shows the essentials of website traffic on one simple, fast dashboard: visitors, pages, sources, countries, devices, goals and custom events. Its script is small and sets no cookies, which helps with GDPR, CCPA and PECR compliance without consent banners in many cases. It is developed and hosted in the EU, sold as a managed cloud service, and also published for self-hosting as the Community Edition, built with Elixir and ClickHouse.

Good fit if

  • You want simple, privacy-friendly stats that anyone on the team can read.
  • You care about EU hosting and data protection rules.

Look elsewhere if

  • You need product analytics with funnels per user and session replay: PostHog or OpenPanel.
  • You want every feature in the self-hosted version: Umami is MIT and has no paid tier in its code.

Before you adopt it

Plausible moved from MIT to AGPL-3.0 in October 2020. Code in the extra directory has its own license and powers paid cloud features that are not part of the Community Edition. Releases of the Community Edition come less often than cloud updates.

Drafted with AI from the project's README and repository data, then checked against that data on 30 October 2026. Report a correction

Plausible health: is it still maintained?

65 of 100, actively developed

  • Activity
    160 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 29 October 2026.
    27 / 30
  • Contributors
    8 people wrote the latest 100 commits; the most active wrote 20% of them.
    13 / 20
  • Releases
    3 releases in the last 12 months; the latest, v3.2.1, on 15 May 2026.
    12 / 20
  • Replies to issues
    Maintainers answered 39% of recent issues, with a median first reply after 9 days.
    7 / 20
  • Security practices
    OpenSSF Scorecard 6.4 of 10.
    6 / 10

Read from GitHub on 1 November 2026. How the score works

Plausible license: is it open source?

Plausible uses AGPL-3.0, an open-source license approved by the OSI. Some features sit under a separate paid license inside the same repository.

  1. December 2018First published on GitHub under MIT.
  2. 12 October 2020Changed to AGPL-3.0. Commit: Use AGPL license going forward
  3. TodayAGPL-3.0, with paid parts: separate license extra/COPYING.txt.

How to run Plausible yourself

Docker
Dockerfile or compose file in the repository
Compose file
None in the repository
Setup effort
Not rated: no compose file to judge from
Kubernetes
No Helm chart in the repository
Desktop and mobile
No app builds in GitHub releases
Interface languages
English only

Install instructions: plausible.io or the README on GitHub.

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Questions about Plausible

Is Plausible open source?

Yes. Plausible is published under AGPL-3.0, an OSI-approved open-source license. Some features are kept under a separate paid license in the same repository.

Is Plausible still maintained?

Its health score is 65 of 100 (actively developed). It had 160 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 29 October 2026, and its latest release came out on 15 May 2026.

Did Plausible change its license?

Yes. It moved from MIT to AGPL-3.0 on 12 October 2020.

How do I run Plausible?

You can run it with Docker. The README on GitHub has the exact steps.

What are the alternatives to Plausible?

Close alternatives in the Web analytics category include Tianji, Matomo, Umami.