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Plausible Analytics vs GitHub Actions

Privacy-first web analytics — cookieless, no GDPR/CCPA nightmare
vs. CI/CD native to GitHub — workflows + marketplace + hosted runners

Plausible Analytics ↗GitHub Actions ↗

Pricing tiers

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 ↗

GitHub Actions

Public Repos
$0. Free unlimited minutes on hosted runners (Linux). No private runners.
$0 base (usage-based)
Free (Personal)
$0. 2,000 minutes/mo private repos (Linux). 500MB Packages storage.
Free
Per-minute Overage
$0.008/min Linux ($0.08 macOS, $0.016 Windows) after included minutes.
$0/mo
Team
$4/user/mo. 3,000 minutes/mo. 2GB storage. Org management.
$4/mo
Enterprise
$21/user/mo. 50,000 minutes/mo. 50GB storage. SAML SSO, audit.
$21/mo
GitHub Actions ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing starter on Plausible Analytics vs free on GitHub Actions.

MetricPlausible AnalyticsGitHub Actions
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

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.

GitHub Actions · 18 features

  • Actions Cache — Persistent cache across runs.
  • Actions Marketplace — 20K+ reusable actions.
  • ARC (K8s Controller) — Autoscale self-hosted on K8s.
  • Artifacts — Upload/download job outputs.
  • Composite Actions — Actions made of other actions.
  • Concurrency Groups — Cancel / queue overlapping runs.
  • Container Jobs — Run a whole job in a Docker image.
  • Environments + Approvals — Gate deploys with manual approval.
  • Job Summaries — Markdown summaries in UI.
  • Larger Runners — 4-64 vCPU, ARM, GPU.
  • Matrix Strategy — Fan out over axes.
  • OIDC Cloud Auth — Exchange JWT for cloud credentials.
  • Reusable Workflows — workflow_call.
  • Secrets + Variables — Encrypted org/repo/env secrets.
  • Self-Hosted Runners — Your own runners.
  • Service Containers — Sidecar containers (DBs, Redis) per job.
  • Triggers — push, pull_request, schedule, workflow_dispatch, etc.
  • Workflows — Event-driven YAML workflows.

Developer interfaces

KindPlausible AnalyticsGitHub Actions
CLI—gh run CLI
SDK@nuxtjs/plausible + plugins, plausible-tracker (npm)@actions/* toolkit
RESTEvents API, Plausible Stats API, Sites Management APIGitHub Actions REST API
GRAPHQL—GitHub GraphQL (Actions)
OTHERTracker Script (<script>)Actions Marketplace, Actions Tab (Web), workflow_* webhooks, Workflow YAML
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