Best Plausible Analytics Alternatives in 2026 (Free)

Signal: Value; Weight
Community votes: 0%; 30%
Feature overlap: 100%; 20%
Platform compatibility: 100%; 10%
Category relevance: 100%; 10%
Review rating: 63%; 15%
Data freshness: 100%; 5%
Editorial score: 66%; 10%

Umami

Editor curated

Simple, open-source, privacy-focused website analytics.

FreeOpen source Self-hostable Privacy-focused

Platforms: Web · Self-hosted · Docker

Completely free
Covers 4 of 4 Plausible Analytics features

Shared features: API access, Cookieless tracking, Dashboards, Event tracking

Match score 61

Signal: Value; Weight
Community votes: 0%; 30%
Feature overlap: 100%; 20%
Platform compatibility: 100%; 10%
Category relevance: 100%; 10%
Review rating: 63%; 15%
Data freshness: 100%; 5%
Editorial score: 64%; 10%

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Google Analytics

Editor curated

Google's web and app analytics service.

FreeProprietary

Platforms: Web

Completely free
Covers 2 of 4 Plausible Analytics features

Shared features: Dashboards, Event tracking

Match score 45

Signal: Value; Weight
Community votes: 0%; 30%
Feature overlap: 50%; 20%
Platform compatibility: 33%; 10%
Category relevance: 100%; 10%
Review rating: 63%; 15%
Data freshness: 100%; 5%
Editorial score: 72%; 10%

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How ranking works: each alternative gets a transparent match score from community votes, feature overlap, platform compatibility, category relevance, review ratings, data freshness and an editorial score. Sponsored placements never affect this order.

Matomo

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Umami

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Google Analytics

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