Plausible vs Cookie Free Analytics on published prices

We like Plausible. We charge less for the same count. Both skip cookies. Cookie Free Analytics is not open source. Plausible is. If you must run the AGPL code, pick them.

Public list prices as of 18 August 2026. Cookie Free Analytics Starter: €4 at 10k pageviews, €9 at 100k, €26 at 1M. Plausible Starter at those volumes: €8, €18, €69 (USD × 0.92). Simple Analytics: €20, €20, €59. They can change tomorrow; we change the date when we re-read them.

Events are not billed

Plausible counts custom events toward the pageview quota. A signup on Cookie Free Analytics is a goal, not a tax. Growth funnels here are linear and same UTC day — midnight starts a new person. That is the privacy trade, not a hidden cap.

Beacons hit Frankfurt; pageviews sit in Ireland. Vercel is a US company. Plausible can add European-owned infrastructure; we host in EU regions. The split is on /europe.