Statsig vs Plausible Analytics
Feature management + experimentation + analytics — ex-Facebook team
vs. Privacy-first web analytics — cookieless, no GDPR/CCPA nightmare
Pricing tiers
Statsig
Developer (Free)
2M events/mo. Unlimited flag checks + configs. 50K session replays. 1-year retention. Unlimited seats.
Free
Pro
$150/month. 5M events included ($0.05 per 1K additional). Advanced experimentation + analytics. Unlimited retention.
$150/mo
Enterprise
Custom. Warehouse Native deploy. Outgoing data integrations. SSO, RBAC, HIPAA. Priority support.
Custom
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
Free-tier quotas head-to-head
Comparing developer on Statsig vs starter on Plausible Analytics.
| Metric | Statsig | Plausible Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers. | ||
Features
Statsig · 14 features
- Alerts — Metric threshold + anomaly alerts to Slack/PagerDuty.
- Autocapture — Zero-config click + pageview tracking.
- Dynamic Configs — JSON config with targeting — remote config.
- Experiments (A/B/n) — Full-factorial + sequential + holdouts. Bayesian + frequentist stats.
- Feature Gates — Boolean flags with targeting rules, gradual rollout, custom attributes.
- Layers — Mutually-exclusive experiment containers for traffic budget management.
- Metrics Catalog — Define reusable metrics with guardrails.
- Outgoing Data Sync — Sync events to warehouses. Enterprise.
- Product Analytics — Funnels, retention, segments, dashboards — integrated with flags.
- RBAC + SSO — Role-based access, SAML SSO. Enterprise.
- Segments / Audiences — Reusable targeting groups.
- Session Replay — DOM + network replays, 50K/mo free.
- Warehouse Native — Enterprise: run Statsig in your data warehouse (Snowflake/BQ/Databricks/Redshift…
- Web Analytics — Pageviews, sources, devices, Core Web Vitals.
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
| Kind | Statsig | Plausible Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| SDK | go-sdk, statsig-android, statsig-erlang, statsig-ios-client-sdk, statsig-java-server-sdk, statsig-js (browser), statsig-node-server-sdk, statsig-python-core | @nuxtjs/plausible + plugins, plausible-tracker (npm) |
| REST | Events Ingest API, Statsig Console API | Events API, Plausible Stats API, Sites Management API |
| OTHER | Webhooks | Tracker Script (<script>) |
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