Piwik PRO vs. Plausible Analytics

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Piwik PRO and Plausible Analytics compared across Company facts, Pricing, Analytics capabilities, Privacy & compliance, Data ownership & deployment and Platform & integrations — every fact sourced and re-verified from each vendor's public material.

Piwik PRO

Enterprise-grade, privacy-focused analytics and customer data platform with GDPR compliance.

Founded2013

HQ Wrocław, Poland

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Plausible Analytics

Open-source, privacy-first web analytics — a lightweight, cookieless Google Analytics alternative.

Founded2018

HQ EU (remote-first)

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Attribute

Piwik PRO

Plausible Analytics

Company facts

Headquarters

Wrocław, Poland

EU (remote-first)

Employees

190 Vendor about page states 'nearly 200 people'; third-party sources (LinkedIn, Pitchbook) show ~159–160 as of late 2025.

Pricing

Starting Monthly Price (USD)

$40.38 Entry Business plan starts at €35/month; converted at 1.1537 EUR/USD (rate on 2026-06-10). No USD list price published.

$9 Starter plan at $9/mo (monthly billing); 10k pageviews, 1 site

Offers Free Tier

Free Core plan was discontinued March 2026; only a 30-day trial is available.

Plausible Community Edition (CE) is a free self-hostable open-source version

Free Trial Length (Days)

30 days

30 days 30-day free trial on all paid plans, no credit card required

Entry Plan Pageview Limit (Monthly)

2M Piwik PRO meters 'actions' (not pageviews); 2M actions/month on the entry Business plan.

10k Starter plan includes up to 10k monthly pageviews

Entry Plan Website Limit

20 sites Business plan includes up to 20 domains at the base tier; price adjusts based on domain count.

1 sites Starter plan covers 1 site; Growth allows up to 3, Business up to 10

Analytics capabilities

Real-Time Dashboard

Yes

Real-time dashboard updates every 30 seconds

Custom Event Tracking

Yes

Custom event tracking available via JS snippet, CSS class, or Events API

Goal / Conversion Tracking

Yes

Supports pageview goals and custom event goals with conversion rate reporting

Funnels

Yes

Funnel analysis is a Business plan feature ($19/mo+)

Ecommerce / Revenue Tracking

Yes

Revenue tracking (monetary values on events) is a Business plan feature ($19/mo+)

Heatmaps

Heatmaps (click, scroll maps) are part of the Piwik PRO Analytics Suite via built-in Tag Manager; visualized through the official Site Inspector Chrome extension.

Privacy & compliance

Cookieless Tracking

Cookieless tracking is a fully supported optional mode; can be enabled per site via Administration settings.

No cookies or persistent identifiers used by default; daily-rotating anonymous hash only

Consent Banner Required

Default configuration uses cookies and requires consent. With cookieless/anonymous mode enabled, no consent banner is needed — but that requires explicit configuration.

No cookie banner needed — Plausible collects no personal data and sets no cookies

GDPR Compliant

Yes

EU Data Residency

EU data residency is available; Business plan is hosted on EU servers in Sweden (Elastx). Enterprise offers 60+ Azure regions including EU.

Data stored in Falkenstein, Germany on Hetzner servers; CDN via Bunny (Slovenia)

Data ownership & deployment

Open Source

Community Edition (CE) is AGPLv3; cloud product is built on same open-source codebase

License

proprietary

AGPLv3

Self-Hostable

Traditional on-premise/self-hosted deployment is no longer offered. 'Private cloud' (installation in customer's own Azure subscription) is available on Enterprise plans.

Plausible Community Edition (CE) is officially supported for self-hosting

Data Retention (Months)

25 mo

36 mo Starter and Growth plans retain 3 years (36 months) of data; Business/Enterprise retain 5+ years

Unlimited Data Retention

Starter/Growth: 3-year retention; Business: 5-year retention

Google Analytics Import

Historical GA data cannot be imported. A settings/configuration migration tool (GA3 + GTM) existed but was discontinued April 2025; no data import path exists.

Official GA4 import supported (up to 5 GA4 properties); Universal Analytics (UA) not supported

Raw Data Export

Raw session and event data available via Reporting API at no extra cost; daily CSV raw data export is a paid add-on.

CSV/ZIP exports available on all plans; Stats API on Business plan; raw event-level export requires Enterprise

Platform & integrations

Has API

Yes

Stats API is a Business plan feature; Events API (for sending data) available on all plans

Tracking Script Size (KB)

26.6 KB Compressed (over-the-wire) size of ppms.js (standalone analytics library). Full container including Tag Manager + Consent Manager is ~60.6 KB compressed.

1.2 KB Measured compressed transfer size.

Official WordPress Plugin

Yes

Official WordPress plugin maintained by Plausible

Email Reports

Yes

Weekly (every Monday) and/or monthly (1st of month) email reports; analytics embedded in email

Public Dashboard Sharing

Publicly shareable links available for dashboards and standard reports (not custom reports). Links are valid for 90 days and marked as an experimental feature.

Shared links (optionally password-protected) and fully public dashboards supported

The verdict

Piwik PRO

Best for high-volume, multi-site analytics with heatmaps

The entry Business plan meters 2M actions/month across up to 20 domains and bundles funnels, ecommerce revenue tracking, and heatmaps at the base tier — capabilities Plausible either lacks (heatmaps) or gates to its Business plan. Trade-off: it starts at $40.38/mo, has no free tier, and ships a heavier 26.6 KB script.

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Plausible Analytics

Best for lean, open-source, consent-free tracking

Starts at $9/mo, is AGPLv3 open source and self-hostable (with a free Community Edition), and needs no consent banner by default — none of which Piwik PRO offers. A 1.2 KB script and official GA4 import ease setup. Limits: the $9 tier covers 1 site and 10k pageviews, and funnels, ecommerce, and heatmaps are absent or Business-only.

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Sources · 40 verified references

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