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Plausible Analytics vs Mailgun

Privacy-first web analytics — cookieless, no GDPR/CCPA nightmare
vs. Email API for developers with deep deliverability tooling

Plausible Analytics ↗Mailgun 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 ↗

Mailgun

Free
100 emails/day. 1 custom domain, 1-day log retention, 1 inbound route. No credit card.
Free
Basic
$15/month. 10,000 emails/month, no daily limit, 5 inbound routes.
$15/mo
Foundation
$35/month (1st month free). 50,000 emails/month, 1,000 custom domains, 5-day retention.
$35/mo
Scale
$90/month. 100,000 emails/month, SAML SSO, 5,000 email validations, dedicated IP pools, 30-day retention.
$90/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Deliverability services, managed onboarding.
Custom
Mailgun website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing starter on Plausible Analytics vs free on Mailgun.

MetricPlausible AnalyticsMailgun
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.

Mailgun · 14 features

  • Batch Sending — Send up to 1,000 recipients per API call via recipient variables.
  • Dedicated IPs — IP pools with auto warmup. Scale+ tier.
  • Deliverability Suite — Inbox placement testing, DMARC reporting, seed lists.
  • Email Logs — Searchable log of all send attempts + events.
  • Email Templates — Template builder + variables + versioning.
  • Email Validation — Real-time email verification (syntax, MX, role accounts, disposable).
  • EU Region — Data stored in EU for GDPR-sensitive customers.
  • Inbound Routing — Route incoming emails to URLs/SMTP. Attachment forwarding.
  • Mailing Lists — Unlimited mailing lists with bulk subscribe/unsubscribe.
  • Open/Click Tracking — HTML + text tracking with configurable tracking domain.
  • SAML SSO — Scale+ tier.
  • Send API — REST/SMTP send with MIME + tracking.
  • Tags — Tag messages to slice stats.
  • Webhook Events — delivered, opened, clicked, unsubscribed, complained, permanent_fail, temporary_…

Developer interfaces

KindPlausible AnalyticsMailgun
SDK@nuxtjs/plausible + plugins, plausible-tracker (npm)mailgun.js (Node), mailgun-php, mailgun-python, mailgun-ruby
RESTEvents API, Plausible Stats API, Sites Management APIMailgun REST API
OTHERTracker Script (<script>)Inbound Routing, SMTP Relay, Webhooks
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