Plausible Analytics Pricing & Free Plan Limits
Complete pricing breakdown for Plausible Analytics including all plans, hidden costs, and limitations.
Pricing score: 60/100
Is Plausible Analytics free?
Yes — the Community Edition (self-hosted) plan costs nothing. Paid plans start at $9.00/month (Starter).
The free plan includes
- AGPL open-source code
- Core dashboard, goals and custom events
- Unlimited sites on your own server
Free plan limits
- No funnels, user journeys, ecommerce revenue, SSO or Sites API. Basic bot filtering only. Released about twice a year, community support only.
Watch out: Your own server, ClickHouse + Postgres maintenance, backups and upgrades.
Plans & Pricing
- 10+ sites
- Everything in Business
- Sites API
- Single sign-on (SSO)
- Managed proxy
- Scheduled raw event data exports
- Priority support
User limit: 10+ team members
Storage: 5+ years data retention
- AGPL open-source code
- Core dashboard, goals and custom events
- Unlimited sites on your own server
- 10k monthly pageviews (100k $19, 200k $29, 500k $49, 1M $69, 2M $89, 5M $129, 10M $169)
- 1 site
- Dashboard, email/Slack reports
- Google Analytics import
- Goals and custom events
- Saved segments, annotations
User limit: 1 user
Storage: 3 years data retention
- 10k monthly pageviews (100k $29, 200k $44, 500k $74, 1M $104, 2M $134, 5M $194, 10M $254)
- Up to 3 sites
- Everything in Starter
- Team management
- Shared links and embedded dashboards
- Shared segments and annotations
User limit: Up to 3 team members
Storage: 3 years data retention
- 10k monthly pageviews (100k $39, 200k $59, 500k $99, 1M $139, 2M $179, 5M $259, 10M $339)
- Up to 10 sites
- Everything in Growth
- Custom properties
- Funnels and user journeys
- Ecommerce revenue attribution
- Stats API (600 requests/hour), Looker Studio connector
- Consolidated view
User limit: Up to 10 team members
Storage: 5 years data retention
Pricing Issues Reported by Users
Plausible raised prices and grandfathered older subscribers
One long-time customer reports the 100k pageview plan rose from $96 to $190 per year in July 2022, with existing subscribers kept on the old price. In November 2023 Plausible added a separate Business plan for funnels and ecommerce revenue; existing subscribers could stay on their plan but had to move to the newer, higher price list to unlock those features.
Why is Plausible so expensive for high-traffic sites?
Entry pricing is $9/month for 10k pageviews, but every tier counts pageviews plus custom events across all sites in a team. Starter reaches $69/month at 1M and $169/month at 10M; Business costs $139 at 1M and $339 at 10M. Users comparing with free GA4 or Umami's free tier call it hard to justify for hobby sites.
No free plan for Plausible Cloud
There is only a 30-day free trial (no card needed). After that every cloud site needs a paid plan, which pushes small hobby sites toward self-hosting the Community Edition or switching to tools with free tiers.
Plausible dashboard locked after exceeding pageview limit
One month over your tier is ignored, but two consecutive months over triggers an upgrade notice; if you don't upgrade within a week the dashboard is locked (stats keep being collected). A traffic spike or bot wave can force a more expensive tier.