Feasible vs Plausible

Plausible got the privacy model right before most people accepted there was a model to get right. No cookies, no cross-site identity, a small script, numbers a human can read. We’re building in the space they helped define, and it would be strange to pretend otherwise.

So let’s do the part that’s checkable: two price lists, next to each other.

Price

Plausible’s ladder is on their pricing page, read September 3, 2026. Annual is ten times monthly - two months free, their words. Feasible is $99 a year, or $9.99 a month, up to a million pageviews.

All figures are annual USD, list price, before tax.

At 10,000 pageviews, Plausible Starter is cheaper than we are. $90 against $99. If you run one small site by yourself and don’t need an API, that’s a better deal and we’re not going to argue with it.

The gap opens at scale and at inclusions. At a million pageviews a month, Plausible Business is $1,390 a year. Feasible is $99. That’s fourteen times, and it’s the whole reason this company exists.

What Starter includes

Comparing headline prices only works if the plans contain the same things. They don’t.

From Plausible’s own pricing cards, read September 3, 2026:

• Starter - one site. Three years of retention. No team members at all.
• Growth - up to 3 sites, up to 3 team members.
• Business - up to 10 sites, up to 10 team members, five years of retention, and the first plan with custom properties, funnels and user journeys, ecommerce revenue attribution and the Stats API (600 requests an hour).
• Enterprise - custom pricing. More sites, more seats, SSO, the Sites API, and scheduled raw event data exports.

Feasible has one plan. Unlimited sites, unlimited team members, five roles plus per-site guests, funnels, custom properties, revenue goals, the full API at 10,000 requests an hour, webhooks, an MCP server, and five years of retention. $99 a year.

Raw export

This is the difference that surprises people most. On Plausible, scheduled raw event data export is an Enterprise feature - it’s listed on the Enterprise card and nowhere else. There’s no published self-serve price at which you can get your own raw events out.

On Feasible, export is a button in site settings on the only plan we have. You get one ZIP: ten roll-up CSVs plus the raw events. It works during a trial, and it keeps working if your payment fails, because locking someone out of their own data isn’t a retention strategy.

What counts

The same two things. Plausible’s limit counts pageviews plus custom events, and so does ours - including the outbound clicks, downloads and form submissions our script fires on its own. Same arithmetic on both sides.

Neither of us bills for the properties attached to an event, which is the line that separates both of us from the vendors selling “datapoints” and “hits”. Credit where it’s due.

So there’s no unit trick to point at here. A site at 900,000 pageviews a month firing Signup, Purchase and Download on 150,000 visits is 1,050,000 against either limit. What differs is what happens next: $690 to $1,390 a year there depending on plan, $99 here, and our version of going over is an email rather than a tier.

Side by side

Open source

Both products are under the same license: AGPL-3.0-or-later. Anyone telling you one of us is more permissively licensed than the other is wrong, and you can check it by opening two LICENSE files.

The difference is narrower than a license name and easier to verify. Plausible’s repository contains an extra/ directory with its own COPYING.txt, which says the code there is “provided for informational purposes only, and no rights to use, distribute or otherwise exploit this software are granted to you.” That directory holds funnels, SSO, the consolidated view and the Sites API, and the build excludes it from Community Edition.

That’s a completely normal open-core arrangement. Matomo and PostHog do the same thing. Feasible just doesn’t have one - there’s no extra/, no ee/, no license-key check, no folder you’re not allowed to compile. The thing we host is the thing you can run.

Two more differences that follow from that, both from Plausible’s own self-hosting docs: Community Edition is “a long term release published twice per year so latest features and improvements won’t be immediately available,” and marketing funnels, user journeys, ecommerce revenue goals, SSO and the Sites API aren’t in it.

Two corrections while we’re here, because they get repeated wrongly: the Stats API is in Community Edition (it’s the Sites API that isn’t), and Community Edition isn’t capped on sites or team members - those caps are a Cloud pricing thing.

Running it yourself

Plausible Community Edition is three containers: the app, ClickHouse and PostgreSQL. Their README recommends at least 2 GB of RAM. ClickHouse’s own operations docs recommend “32 GB or more” and warn that under 16 GB “you may experience various memory exceptions.” Both things can be true - it runs on 2 GB, and the column store underneath it was built for machines an order of magnitude larger.

Feasible is one Go binary and one SQLite file. No Docker, no Postgres, no ClickHouse, no queue. It starts on 1 core and 512 MB of RAM.

We’re not claiming SQLite stores data more efficiently than ClickHouse - it doesn’t, by a wide margin. The claim is operational: there’s one process and one file, and nothing to tune.

Which one to pick

Most people who go looking aren’t unhappy with the product. They’ve run into the Starter plan being one site and no teammates, or they’ve priced Business at a million pageviews and gone quiet. Both of those are further up this page.

If neither of those is your problem, the next section is the answer.

Want the wider list rather than the head-to-head? Plausible alternatives, compared covers seven of them.

Where Plausible wins

Your data sits in Germany. Plausible hosts in Falkenstein on Hetzner, and the company is in the EU. Cloudmanic Labs is in Oregon, and our international transfers run on standard contractual clauses through our DPA. If EU residency is a requirement rather than a preference, that decides it, and no amount of price difference should change your mind.

Their script is smaller than ours. Measured the same day, the same way: Plausible 1,291 bytes gzipped, Feasible 3,377. They win that one, comfortably.

They’ve been at it longer. More years in production, a much bigger community, more people who’ve already hit the edge case you’re about to hit, an official Looker Studio connector, and a documented Enterprise tier with SSO if your company requires it.

Saved segments. They have them. We don’t - our filters are per-session, and segments only exist server-side behind a shared link.

If any of those is the thing you need, buy theirs. If what you need is several sites, several people, funnels and the API without a tier change, and five years of history for $99, that’s what we built.

Next: the whole price ladder across every vendor, or what’s in Feasible with the gaps listed .