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Loops vs Plausible Analytics

Email marketing for SaaS — loops, transactional, campaigns in one
vs. Privacy-first web analytics — cookieless, no GDPR/CCPA nightmare

Loops website ↗Plausible Analytics ↗

Pricing tiers

Loops

Free
1,000 subscribed contacts. 4,000 sends/month. All features. Loops footer on emails.
Free
Paid — 1.5k
1,500 contacts. Unlimited sends. No footer.
$15/mo
Paid — 5k
5,000 contacts. Unlimited sends.
$49/mo
Paid — 10k
10,000 contacts.
$99/mo
Paid — 25k
25,000 contacts.
$199/mo
Paid — 50k
50,000 contacts.
$349/mo
Custom
>100k contacts — contact sales.
Custom
Loops website ↗

Plausible Analytics

Self-Hosted (CE)
Community Edition — AGPL-licensed, run on your own infra.
$0 base (usage-based)
Starter
$9/month. 1 site. Basic dashboard, goals, 3-year data retention.
$9/mo
Growth
$14/month. 3 sites + 3 team members. Shared dashboards + team mgmt.
$14/mo
Business
$19/month. 10 sites + 10 members. Custom properties, API access, funnels, 5-year retention.
$19/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SSO, managed proxy, priority support.
Custom
Plausible Analytics ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free on Loops vs starter on Plausible Analytics.

MetricLoopsPlausible Analytics
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Loops · 12 features

  • API Keys — Scoped keys for testing vs production.
  • Audiences (Segments) — Filter contacts by properties + event behavior.
  • Campaign Analytics — Open/click/unsubscribe rates, heatmaps, A/B significance.
  • Campaigns — One-off broadcasts to audience segments. Schedule + A/B test subject.
  • Contacts — Contact records with custom properties (strings, numbers, booleans, dates).
  • Email Editor — Visual block-based + Markdown + HTML modes.
  • Events — Send events to trigger loops/journeys or filter audiences.
  • Loops (Automations) — Event-triggered automation flows with delays + conditions.
  • Mailing Lists — Opt-in lists with subscribe/unsubscribe preferences per list.
  • Template Library — Pre-built templates for SaaS use cases (onboarding, digest, launch).
  • Transactional API — Send transactional emails (receipts, password resets) via /transactional endpoin…
  • Webhooks — Subscribe to contact/event changes.

Plausible Analytics · 16 features

  • 404 Error Tracking — Auto-detect 404 pages.
  • Custom Properties — Attach arbitrary properties to events (Business+).
  • Email/Slack Reports — Weekly + monthly reports to email/Slack.
  • File Download Tracking — Track PDF/DOC/ZIP downloads.
  • Funnels — Multi-step funnel analysis (Business+).
  • Goals & Conversions — Track custom events + pageview-based goals.
  • Import from Google Analytics — Import historical GA data via script.
  • Managed Proxy (Ent) — Proxy plausible.io through your domain to bypass ad-blockers.
  • Outbound Link Tracking — One-line extension to track outbound clicks.
  • Revenue Goals — Track $ amounts per goal. Great for e-commerce.
  • Self-Hosting — Run via Docker. AGPL Community Edition.
  • Shared Dashboards — Public or password-protected share links.
  • Single-page Dashboard — All your metrics on one page: visitors, pageviews, sources, devices, countries, …
  • Stats API — Pull data into your own tools via REST. Business+.
  • Team Management — Owners, admins, viewers per site.
  • UTM Campaigns — Track utm_source/medium/campaign automatically.

Developer interfaces

KindLoopsPlausible Analytics
SDK@loops/loops, loops-py@nuxtjs/plausible + plugins, plausible-tracker (npm)
RESTLoops REST APIEvents API, Plausible Stats API, Sites Management API
OTHERWebhooksTracker Script (<script>)
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