What license is Feasible under?

AGPL-3.0-or-later, for the app and the browser tracker. You can run it, modify it and self-host it. If you offer it to others as a network service, you have to make your source available to those users.

Is the self-hosted version cut down?

No. It’s the same build. Set FEASIBLE_APP_HOSTED=false and every feature is free and unrestricted - the API, funnels, custom properties, webhooks, the MCP server, raw event export, teams. There’s no Community Edition and no license-key module.

What does it take to run?

One binary and one directory of SQLite files. The floor is 1 CPU core, 512 MB of RAM and 1 GB of disk; 2 cores and 2 GB is comfortable. No Docker, no Postgres, no ClickHouse, no Redis, no queue.

Does AGPL mean I have to open-source my website?

No. The license concerns the analytics software, not the site you point it at. It asks you to publish source if you modify Feasible and then offer it to other people over a network.

Is Feasible's license more permissive than Plausible's?

No. Both are AGPL-3.0-or-later - the same license. Anyone claiming otherwise is wrong, and you can check it in thirty seconds by opening both LICENSE files.

Why pay $99 a year if I can run it for free?

Because you’d rather not. Self-hosting means a box, backups, upgrades and being the person who gets paged. The hosted service is us doing that. Both get the same features.

OPEN SOURCE

Open source web analytics you can read

The license, the code, what self-hosting takes, and how other open-source tools compare.

Feasible is open source under AGPL-3.0-or-later, app and browser tracker alike. The code is at github.com/Feasible-Analytics/app.feasible.lol.

Plausible uses the same license. Umami uses the more permissive MIT license. Checked September 3, 2026. Our difference is what ships in the self-hosted build.

Nothing is held back

Set FEASIBLE_APP_HOSTED=false and every feature works: API, funnels, custom properties, webhooks, MCP, raw export, teams, sharing, reports, and alerts. There’s no separate edition, license key, or plan check.

How the field is licensed

Read on September 3, 2026 by opening the LICENSE file in each repository, not by trusting a badge.

Tool	License	Self-host	The thing worth knowing
Feasible	AGPL-3.0-or-later	Yes	Same build we host. No carve-out directory
Plausible	AGPL-3.0-or-later, except `extra/`	Yes, as Community Edition	`extra/` grants no rights and holds funnels, SSO, consolidated view and the Sites API. CE is a twice-yearly release. Sites and seats are unlimited in CE, and the Stats API is included
Matomo	GPL-3.0-or-later	Yes	GPL, not AGPL - no network-source clause. Premium plugins such as Funnels are proprietary under InnoCraft’s EULA
Umami	MIT	Yes	More permissive than ours, and MIT since 2020. Their FAQ says Cloud has email reports and a streaming API the self-hosted build doesn’t
PostHog	MIT, except `ee/`	Yes	`ee/` needs an enterprise license to run in production
GoatCounter	EUPL-1.2 (modified)	Yes	Small, careful, philosophically close to us
Counter.dev	AGPL-3.0	Yes	Tiny project, pay-what-you-want hosting
Fathom	Closed. “Fathom Lite” is MIT	Lite only	Lite isn’t archived, but no code change since January 2023
Pirsch	Closed product; the Go tracking library is AGPL-3.0	Enterprise tier only	-
Simple Analytics, Google Analytics 4, Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify	Closed	No	-

Plausible’s core is open source. Its extra/ directory uses different terms and doesn’t ship in Community Edition. Umami’s MIT license is more permissive than our AGPL. Pick Umami if license freedom matters most. Pick Feasible if you want the hosted and self-hosted builds to match.

What self-hosting takes

One binary. One directory of SQLite files. That’s the deployment.

cp .env.sample .env          # set FEASIBLE_APP_HOSTED=false
feasible db migrate
feasible account create --email owner@example.com --name "Account owner"
feasible serve

account create prints a password once. Public signup is off in self-hosted mode. The operator creates accounts.

Requirements: 1 CPU core, 512 MB of RAM, 1 GB of disk at the floor. Two cores and 2 GB is comfortable. Written in Go 1.26, pure-Go SQLite with no cgo, one binary, no Docker file in the repo because there’s nothing to orchestrate. No Postgres, no ClickHouse, no Redis, no message queue.

Storage: about 210 bytes an event. A million pageviews a month for a year is roughly 3.5 GB.

Throughput: about 6,000 events per second per process, with accept latency around 13 µs at the median. Reports read from pre-built roll-ups: 28 days of top pages comes back in 81–111 ms; twelve months in 0.4–0.7 s.

SQLite isn’t denser than a column store. It’s easier to run: one file, one process, nothing to tune.

For comparison, Plausible Community Edition asks for at least 2 GB of RAM. Matomo’s sizing table calls for 2 GB at 100,000 monthly pageviews and 8 GB at one million. PostHog asks for 8 GB. Checked September 3, 2026.

Hosted or self-hosted

	Self-hosted	Hosted
Price	Free, plus your server	$9.99/month or $99/year
Features	Every one	Every one
Public API, funnels, custom properties, webhooks, MCP	Yes	Yes
Raw event export	Yes	Yes
Monthly limit	Whatever your box does	1,000,000 pageviews and events, then talk to us
Retention	Your disk, your rules	5 years
Data location	Wherever you run it	United States
Upgrades, backups, being paged at 3 a.m.	You	Us

We sell the hosted service. The public source is your way out if we disappear. If you’d rather run it, run it. Every feature works.

The one thing AGPL asks of you

If you modify Feasible and offer it to others over a network, you must share the source with those users. Running it for your own sites doesn’t require you to open-source your website.

If your employer bans AGPL software, use the hosted service.

Read the source.

Questions

What license is Feasible under?: AGPL-3.0-or-later, for the app and the browser tracker. You can run it, modify it and self-host it. If you offer it to others as a network service, you have to make your source available to those users.
Is the self-hosted version cut down?: No. It’s the same build. Set FEASIBLE_APP_HOSTED=false and every feature is free and unrestricted - the API, funnels, custom properties, webhooks, the MCP server, raw event export, teams. There’s no Community Edition and no license-key module.
What does it take to run?: One binary and one directory of SQLite files. The floor is 1 CPU core, 512 MB of RAM and 1 GB of disk; 2 cores and 2 GB is comfortable. No Docker, no Postgres, no ClickHouse, no Redis, no queue.
Does AGPL mean I have to open-source my website?: No. The license concerns the analytics software, not the site you point it at. It asks you to publish source if you modify Feasible and then offer it to other people over a network.
Is Feasible's license more permissive than Plausible's?: No. Both are AGPL-3.0-or-later - the same license. Anyone claiming otherwise is wrong, and you can check it in thirty seconds by opening both LICENSE files.
Why pay $99 a year if I can run it for free?: Because you’d rather not. Self-hosting means a box, backups, upgrades and being the person who gets paged. The hosted service is us doing that. Both get the same features.

Prices and features on this page were checked on September 3, 2026. Companies change their pricing; if something here is out of date, tell us and we'll fix it.