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Plausible Community Edition

Cookie-free web analytics; the free Community Edition is the self-hosted AGPL release.

Web Analytics

Plausible records pageviews, referrers, campaigns and goals without cookies or personal data, as an alternative to Google Analytics. Plausible Community Edition is the free, self-hosted release of the same code, which you install and operate yourself. Compared with the managed cloud service it excludes premium support and the Data Studio Connector.

Key features

Community EditionFree self-hosted
LicenceOpen source · AGPL-3.0DeploymentSelf-hosted
Limits, notes & source

Community Edition

Limits
Premium support is not included — self-hosting is community supported only — and the Data Studio Connector is not available.
Notes
No fees are paid to Plausible, but you cover your own server, CDN and backup costs. The Docker deployment lives in the plausible/community-edition repository while the application licence is in plausible/analytics.
Source
plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics ↗

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Free self-hosted Community Edition, released under the AGPLv3 licence. Source
  • No cookies and no personal data, so no consent banner is needed; GDPR, CCPA and PECR compliant. Source
  • The vendor runs a managed cloud on the same code, and those subscriptions fund CE development. Source
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  • Official CE repo documents a Docker Compose install and upgrade path. Source

Trade-offs

  • CE omits marketing funnels, user journeys, ecommerce revenue goals, SSO and the sites API. Source
  • CE is a long-term release published twice a year, so new features are not immediate. Source
  • Installs, backups, uptime and applying security fixes are yours; CE support is community only. Source

Plausible Community Edition replaces

Products this app is built to take over from, with the vendor's own evidence.

Moving your content across: Documented per product: what you do on the side you are leaving, what this app does with the result, and what does not survive the trip. Every step links to the page that documents it.

  • Google AnalyticsVendor states Plausible was built as "a direct alternative to Google Analytics and the adtech world behind it".Source
    Google Analytics 4 (GA4)Ships a documented importer that pulls historical GA4 stats into the same dashboard.Source

    One documented path for the products above — the vendor documents the same move for both.

    • ImportSite settings → Imports & Exports → Import Data → Google Analytics; up to five GA properties per dashboard.Source
    • CaveatStats arrive in aggregate per date, from the first GA visitor to the first Plausible visit — raw events are not imported.Source
    • CaveatSelf-hosted Plausible needs GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID and GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET in .env and four Google APIs enabled, or the import button shows a warning.Source

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