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Plausible Analytics vs Neon

Privacy-first web analytics — cookieless, no GDPR/CCPA nightmare
vs. Serverless Postgres with branching and bottomless storage

Plausible Analytics ↗Neon 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 ↗

Neon

Free
100 projects, 0.5 GB storage + 100 CU-hours each. Great for prototypes and preview envs.
Free
Launch
Usage-based, no minimum. Small production workloads. $0.35/GB-month storage, $0.106/CU-hour.
$0 base (usage-based)
Scale
Usage-based, higher compute tier + faster instances ($0.222/CU-hour). Up to 30-day PITR, 1,000 projects.
$0 base (usage-based)
Business
Usage-based with 99.95% SLA, HIPAA available. Private networking $0.01/GB.
$0 base (usage-based)
Neon website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing starter on Plausible Analytics vs free on Neon.

MetricPlausible AnalyticsNeon
branches per project—10 branches
cu hours per project—100 CU-hours/month
egress gb month—5 GB/month
pitr retention hours—6 hours
projects—100 projects
storage gb per project—0.5 GB
team members—3 users

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.

Neon · 14 features

  • Autoscaling — Compute scales CPU + memory between min and max CU in seconds based on load.
  • Branching — Git-like DB branches: copy-on-write snapshots of data + schema. Instant, cheap. …
  • Data API (REST) — PostgREST-compatible REST endpoint auto-generated from your schema. Uses Postgre…
  • IP Allowlist — Restrict DB access to specific CIDRs. Launch+.
  • Launchpad — One-click create-a-database link that can be embedded in OSS repos (DATABASE_URL…
  • Logical Replication — Publish changes to Snowflake, BigQuery, Kafka, or other Postgres. Subscribe from…
  • Monitoring — Built-in dashboards for CPU/RAM/connections/slow queries. Prometheus export on B…
  • Neon Auth — Stack Auth integrated: users table auto-synced into your Postgres (public.users_…
  • Point-in-Time Restore — Restore DB to any moment in the retention window (6h free → 30d Scale) via branc…
  • Private Networking — AWS PrivateLink / VPC peering. Business plan.
  • Read Replicas — Create a read-only compute endpoint on the same branch. Zero replication lag (re…
  • Scale to Zero — Compute suspends when idle — no charge for compute while paused. Cold-start ~300…
  • Schema Diff — Compare schema between branches — build PR checks and preview migrations safely.
  • SQL over HTTP — Serverless driver lets you query Postgres over HTTPS — works in edge runtimes (V…

Developer interfaces

KindPlausible AnalyticsNeon
CLI—Neon CLI
SDK@nuxtjs/plausible + plugins, plausible-tracker (npm)@neondatabase/serverless
RESTEvents API, Plausible Stats API, Sites Management APIManagement / Control Plane API, Neon Data API (REST), SQL over HTTP
MCP—Neon MCP Server
OTHERTracker Script (<script>)Postgres Wire Protocol
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