Events-based pricing
Rybbit
$19/mo
- 7-day free trial, card charged after the trial
- Session replay available on Pro plan
- Funnels, user journeys, and error tracking included
- Up to 5 sites and 3 team members on Standard; unlimited on Pro
Comparison
Rybbit vs Plausible
Both are privacy-first, but Rybbit adds session replay, error tracking, and Web Vitals, and includes funnels and journeys on every plan.
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Why consider Rybbit over Plausible?
Plausible is a well-respected privacy-first analytics tool known for its clean dashboard and lightweight script. It's a great choice for websites that want simple traffic metrics without cookies or consent banners. But Plausible stays close to basic web analytics: there's no session replay, error tracking, or Web Vitals monitoring, and funnels and user journeys are reserved for its Business plan.
Rybbit shares Plausible's commitment to privacy and simplicity but goes significantly further. You get funnels and user journeys on every plan, plus Web Vitals monitoring, error tracking, and session replay on the Pro plan. Beyond visit counts, you can see how people navigate your site, where they drop off, and what errors they encounter.
Both platforms are open source and self-hostable, and both run on ClickHouse; Rybbit's stack is TypeScript, Plausible's is Elixir. Rybbit uses events-based pricing that includes all interaction types, while Plausible charges by pageviews only. If you like Plausible's privacy-first approach but need deeper analytics to grow your product, Rybbit gives you that depth without giving up simplicity.
Comparison
Which is right for you?
Choose Rybbit if...
- You need session replay alongside your traffic stats
- You want funnels and user journeys without moving to a higher tier
- You need error tracking and Web Vitals monitoring
- You want events-based pricing instead of pageview-based
- You need organization support with team roles
- You want a daily rotating salt option for extra privacy
Choose Plausible if...
- You want the simplest possible analytics dashboard
- You prefer a more established product with a longer track record
- You only need basic pageview and source tracking
- You want to import your Google Analytics history (Plausible has a GA importer)
- You prefer Elixir/Phoenix over TypeScript for self-hosting
Feature by feature
Why choose Rybbit over Plausible?
| Capability |  | Plausible |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics Features | ||
| Real-time analytics | ||
| Custom events | With attributes | Basic |
| Funnels | All plans | Business plan only |
| User journeys (Sankey) | All plans | Business plan only |
| Conversion goals | ||
| Saved segments | ||
| UTM tracking | ||
| Public dashboards | ||
| Advanced Features | ||
| Session Replay | ||
| User profiles | ||
| Web Vitals monitoring | ||
| Error tracking | ||
| Real-time globe view | ||
| Autocapture | ||
| Privacy & Open Source | ||
| Cookie-free tracking | ||
| No personal data collection | ||
| Daily rotating salt | ||
| Open source | ||
| Self-hostable | ||
| Technical & Pricing | ||
| Script size | ~11KB | ~5KB |
| Bypasses ad blockers | ||
| API access | Business plan only | |
| Starting price | $19/mo | $9/mo |
Pricing
Pricing comparison
Pageview-based pricing
Plausible
$9/mo
- 30-day free trial available
- Starts at 10k monthly pageviews
- Funnels, journeys, and the Stats API need the $19/mo Business plan
- Self-hosted Community Edition is free
Plausible vs Rybbit, in depth
Two philosophies of privacy-first analytics
Plausible deserves real credit here: it pioneered the modern privacy-first analytics category and proved that teams would pay for cookieless traffic stats instead of tolerating Google Analytics. Its scope is deliberately minimal: a clean dashboard of pageviews, sources, and goals, with no session replay, no error tracking, and no user profiles. That restraint is a feature, not an oversight; Plausible has never pretended to be a product-analytics tool.
Rybbit starts from the same privacy foundation (cookieless tracking with a daily-rotating salt, open source, free to self-host) but takes the opposite position on scope. It ships session replay, funnels, user journeys, error tracking, Web Vitals, and user profiles as part of the core product. The honest framing: Plausible tells you how much traffic you got and where it came from; Rybbit also shows you what visitors did once they arrived, where they dropped off, and what broke.
Pageviews with per-site caps vs events with everything included
Plausible prices by monthly pageviews, with plan tiers gating sites and seats: Starter is $9/month for 10k pageviews and a single site, Growth is $14/month for 3 sites and 3 team members, and Business is $19/month for 10 sites and 10 members, with 2 months free if you pay annually. It's cheap to start, but growing past a site or seat cap means a plan change even if your traffic hasn't moved.
Rybbit prices by events (from $19/month for 100k events). Funnels, journeys, error tracking, and Web Vitals are on every plan, so you never upgrade just to unlock funnels; session replay and unlimited sites and seats come with Pro. At low traffic Plausible is the cheaper bill; once you'd otherwise be paying for replay, funnels, and error tracking as separate tools, the math flips. Full details are on the pricing page. And both products keep an honest exit: Plausible's Community Edition and Rybbit's open-source version are each free to self-host.
Switching from Plausible to Rybbit
This is one migration where you don't start from zero: Rybbit has a built-in data importer for Plausible, so your historical traffic comes with you instead of living in an old dashboard forever.
- Add the Rybbit tracking script alongside Plausible's. Both are lightweight, and running them in parallel for a while costs nothing but a few kilobytes.
- Import your Plausible history with the data importer, so year-over-year comparisons keep working from day one.
- Recreate your goals as Rybbit goals and custom events; the setup is similarly simple.
- Compare a few weeks of live numbers; they should track closely, since both tools are cookieless. Then remove the Plausible script.
When Plausible is the better choice
If a traffic dashboard is genuinely all you want, Plausible is an excellent one, arguably the best at being exactly that. It has the longest track record in the category, an EU-owned and EU-hosted cloud, a famously tiny script (Plausible advertises it as 54× smaller than Google Analytics; Rybbit's is around 11KB compressed), and a 30-day trial with no card required versus Rybbit's 7 days. Choosing it means going without session replay and error tracking (and paying for its Business plan to get funnels), and for plenty of content sites and blogs, that's the right call. If you're weighing more options than these two, our roundup of the best Google Analytics alternatives covers the wider field.
Other Plausible alternatives
If Plausible feels too basic, or its plan tiers don't fit, these are the other Plausible alternatives people compare most often, with the main trade-off of each and a link to the full comparison.
UmamiMIT-licensed with a ~2KB script and a free cloud tier for hobby sites. Funnels, journeys, session replay, heatmaps, and Web Vitals are included; error tracking is not.FathomPolished and cookieless with a tiny script, but closed source and cloud-only, with no funnels, session replay, or free tier.Simple AnalyticsPrivacy-first with a free tier for hobby sites, but closed source and cloud-only, with no funnels or session replay.MatomoThe veteran open-source suite with GA-style depth, including session recordings. Self-hosting means maintaining PHP and MySQL, and many features are paid plugins.PostHogA product suite with analytics, session replay, error tracking, and feature flags, plus a generous free tier. Each product bills separately, and self-hosting is hard.Cloudflare Web AnalyticsFree and cookieless, but it samples data, keeps six months of history, and has no custom events, goals, or funnels.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Both are privacy-first and open source. Rybbit adds session replay, Web Vitals monitoring, error tracking, and user profiles, and includes funnels and user journeys on every plan, while Plausible reserves those for its Business plan.
Yes. Rybbit is designed to be just as simple for basic analytics, with a clean single-page dashboard. The advanced features like funnels and session replay are there when you need them but don't add complexity to the core experience.
Plausible starts at $9/month for 10k pageviews, while Rybbit starts at $19/month for 100k events (pageviews, custom events, and more). Rybbit includes funnels, journeys, and error tracking on every plan; Plausible reserves funnels and journeys for its $19/month Business plan and doesn't offer session replay or error tracking at any price.
Yes, Rybbit is fully self-hostable under the AGPL v3 license. Both use ClickHouse for fast analytics queries. Rybbit's stack is TypeScript-based, while Plausible uses Elixir.
Yes, session replay is one of the biggest differentiators. Rybbit offers session replay on the Pro plan, allowing you to watch how users interact with your site. Plausible does not offer this feature at any price point.
Resources
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