Web Analytics · Comparison
Plausible Analytics vs. Seline
Plausible Analytics and Seline 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.
Plausible Analytics
Open-source, privacy-first web analytics — a lightweight, cookieless Google Analytics alternative.
Seline
Simple, cookieless, privacy-first website and product analytics built in the EU.
Company facts
Headquarters
EU (remote-first)
Warsaw, Poland Registered address: ul. Łowicka 60/16, 02-531 Warsaw, Poland.
Employees
10
4 Tiny bootstrapped team of approximately 4 people. Co-founded by Kostya Nesterovich and Misha Slizenko.
Pricing
Starting Monthly Price (USD)
$9 Starter plan at $9/mo (monthly billing); 10k pageviews, 1 site
$14 Single 'Pro' plan at $14/month (monthly billing). Annual billing available with 2 months free.
Offers Free Tier
Plausible Community Edition (CE) is a free self-hostable open-source version
No perpetual free plan. Seline states: 'No, we don't have a free plan. We're a small bootstrapped team operating exclusively through subscriber fees.'
Free Trial Length (Days)
30 days 30-day free trial on all paid plans, no credit card required
7 days 7-day free trial on the Pro plan, no credit card required.
Entry Plan Pageview Limit (Monthly)
10k Starter plan includes up to 10k monthly pageviews
100k Pro plan includes 100,000 events per month. Seline meters 'events' (pageviews + custom events combined), not pageviews alone.
Entry Plan Website Limit
1 sites Starter plan covers 1 site; Growth allows up to 3, Business up to 10
1 sites Pricing is per project (one website/domain per subscription); linking additional projects requires their own Pro subscription, with the option to share an event limit.
Analytics capabilities
Real-Time Dashboard
Real-time dashboard updates every 30 seconds
Live globe view and real-time visitor activity dashboard included.
Custom Event Tracking
Custom event tracking available via JS snippet, CSS class, or Events API
Custom events tracked via seline.track() JS method or data-sln-event HTML attributes. Custom properties supported.
Goal / Conversion Tracking
Supports pageview goals and custom event goals with conversion rate reporting
Conversion via multi-step funnels (step drop-off / conversion rate) and revenue-attributed custom events.
Funnels
Funnel analysis is a Business plan feature ($19/mo+)
Multi-step funnel analysis built into the product for all plan users.
Ecommerce / Revenue Tracking
Revenue tracking (monetary values on events) is a Business plan feature ($19/mo+)
Revenue attribution by traffic source, referrer, and UTM. Native integrations with Stripe, Shopify, and Polar. MRR tracking included.
Heatmaps
No
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Privacy & compliance
Cookieless Tracking
No cookies or persistent identifiers used by default; daily-rotating anonymous hash only
Cookie-free by design. Uses daily-rotated non-reversible hashing of IP+browser+device — no cookies or persistent browser storage.
Consent Banner Required
No cookie banner needed — Plausible collects no personal data and sets no cookies
No cookie/consent banner needed. Seline explicitly states GDPR compliance without requiring visitor consent banners.
GDPR Compliant
Yes
Vendor explicitly claims GDPR compliance. No personal data retained; EU-hosted infrastructure.
EU Data Residency
Data stored in Falkenstein, Germany on Hetzner servers; CDN via Bunny (Slovenia)
All infrastructure hosted in Germany (EU) via Hetzner — app servers, ClickHouse, and Postgres databases.
Data ownership & deployment
Open Source
Community Edition (CE) is AGPLv3; cloud product is built on same open-source codebase
The main SaaS product is proprietary. Only the JavaScript tracker client (seline-js) is MIT-licensed open source on GitHub.
License
AGPLv3
proprietary Main analytics platform is proprietary SaaS. The JS tracker client is separately MIT-licensed.
Self-Hostable
Plausible Community Edition (CE) is officially supported for self-hosting
Cloud-only SaaS. No self-hosting or on-premises option is documented or advertised.
Data Retention (Months)
36 mo Starter and Growth plans retain 3 years (36 months) of data; Business/Enterprise retain 5+ years
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Unlimited Data Retention
Starter/Growth: 3-year retention; Business: 5-year retention
Pro plan retains data forever ('unlimited' retention). Free trial and any hypothetical lower tiers cap at 1 year.
Google Analytics Import
Official GA4 import supported (up to 5 GA4 properties); Universal Analytics (UA) not supported
No official Google Analytics (UA/GA4) historical-data import; tracking starts from install.
Raw Data Export
CSV/ZIP exports available on all plans; Stats API on Business plan; raw event-level export requires Enterprise
Public API includes a Raw Events endpoint for exporting individual event records with full filtering, pagination, and ordering. CSV export also available via AI assistant.
Platform & integrations
Has API
Stats API is a Business plan feature; Events API (for sending data) available on all plans
Public Stats API available at seline.com/api — covers visit metrics, custom events, funnels, visitor profiles, revenue data, and raw events.
Tracking Script Size (KB)
1.2 KB Measured compressed transfer size.
4.2 KB Measured compressed transfer size.
Official WordPress Plugin
Official WordPress plugin maintained by Plausible
Official WordPress plugin published at wordpress.org/plugins/seline-analytics by the Seline founder (nstkostya = Kostya Nesterovich).
Email Reports
Weekly (every Monday) and/or monthly (1st of month) email reports; analytics embedded in email
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Public Dashboard Sharing
Shared links (optionally password-protected) and fully public dashboards supported
Dashboards can be shared via a public link (e.g. app.seline.com/share/<site>) viewable without an account.
The verdict
Plausible Analytics Best for open-source and self-hosting
Plausible is AGPLv3 open source and officially self-hostable via its free Community Edition; Seline is proprietary and cloud-only. It also imports GA4 history, ships a 1.2 KB script versus Seline's 4.2 KB, adds email reports, and offers a 30-day trial against 7. The lowest paid plan is $9/mo for 10k pageviews.
Full profile Seline Best for funnels and revenue on the entry plan
Seline's $14 Pro plan includes funnels, revenue/ecommerce tracking with Stripe, Shopify, and Polar integrations, and unlimited retention for all users. On Plausible those features are Business-tier ($19/mo+) and retention caps at 36 months. Its entry allowance is 100k events versus Plausible's 10k pageviews, but there is no free tier.
Full profileSources · 36 verified references
plausible.io seline.com starterstory.com capterra.com github.com cdn.seline.com + 2 more
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