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Plausible Analytics vs GrowthBook

Privacy-first web analytics — cookieless, no GDPR/CCPA nightmare
vs. Open-source feature flags + experimentation — Warehouse Native

Plausible Analytics ↗GrowthBook website ↗

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 ↗

GrowthBook

Open Source (Self-Host)
MIT-licensed. Unlimited everything. Community support.
$0 base (usage-based)
Cloud — Starter (Free)
Up to 3 users. Unlimited flags + experiments. Warehouse Native included.
Free
Cloud — Pro
$40/user/month. Up to 50 users. Advanced stats, visual A/B editor, CUPED, sequential testing, bandits.
$40/mo
Cloud — Enterprise
Custom. Unlimited users, SSO/SAML, approval flows, data pipelines, exportable audit logs.
Custom
Self-Host Enterprise
Open Source + Enterprise license. Visual A/B editor, advanced metrics, SSO/SAML, approvals, training.
Custom
GrowthBook website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing starter on Plausible Analytics vs oss on GrowthBook.

MetricPlausible AnalyticsGrowthBook
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.

GrowthBook · 15 features

  • Approval Flows — Require reviewer approval on flag changes. Enterprise.
  • Audit Logs — Full change history. Exportable on Enterprise.
  • Dimensions & Slicing — Break down experiment results by user dimensions.
  • Edge SDK Support — Cloudflare Workers, Lambda@Edge, Fastly, Akamai EdgeWorkers, Netlify Edge.
  • Experiments — A/B/n with CUPED variance reduction + sequential testing.
  • Feature Flags — Boolean + string + number + JSON flags with targeting.
  • Feature Reviews (PR-style) — Draft → review → approve flag changes.
  • Guardrail Metrics — Auto-monitor key metrics during experiments.
  • Metric Catalog — Define + reuse metrics across experiments.
  • Multi-Armed Bandits — Adaptive traffic allocation. Pro+.
  • Safe Rollouts — Guarded gradual rollouts with automatic rollback.
  • SSO / SAML — Enterprise SSO for cloud + self-host EE.
  • Sticky Bucketing — User stays in variant even after eligibility changes.
  • Visual A/B Test Editor — No-code DOM editor for web experiments. Pro+.
  • Warehouse Native — Connect your warehouse + run experiments against your events data.

Developer interfaces

KindPlausible AnalyticsGrowthBook
SDK@nuxtjs/plausible + plugins, plausible-tracker (npm)Edge SDKs (CF Workers / Lambda@Edge / Fastly / Akamai), growthbook-android, growthbook-flutter, growthbook-go, growthbook-java, growthbook-node, growthbook-php, growthbook-python, growthbook-ruby, growthbook-swift, sdk-javascript, sdk-react
RESTEvents API, Plausible Stats API, Sites Management APIGrowthBook REST API
OTHERTracker Script (<script>)Webhooks
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