← all SaaS

Plausible Analytics

Open-source · self-hostable · replaces 4 SaaS tools on os-alt

plausible/analytics · alive · ★ 24.8k · last commit 3d ago · 73 open issues

License: AGPL-3.0

Good fit for Lightweight product/web analytics with great UX and a privacy-first stance; a step down in depth from Amplitude/PostHog.

Weak at ClickHouse is overkill for tiny sites and adds to the ops surface vs SQLite-backed alternatives.

In a terminal? npx -y github:SolvoHQ/os-alt-cli amplitude prints the Amplitude comparison table including Plausible Analytics. how the CLI works →

Replaces these SaaS

  • Amplitude · Product analytics / event tracking / funnels

    Plausible is more web-analytics-shaped than product-analytics-shaped — it replaces Amplitude only if your usage was mostly pageview / event count / referrer reporting, not deep funnels. Swap the snippet on your site, optionally backfill historical events via the import-from-GA tool (no Amplitude importer; you'd write JSON → Plausible Events API yourself).

  • Fathom Analytics · Privacy-first web analytics

    Use the official compose at github.com/plausible/community-edition. Replace the Fathom snippet with Plausible's `<script defer data-domain="yoursite.com" src="https://plausible.example.com/js/script.js">`. There's no first-party Fathom importer (Fathom doesn't expose historical pageview data via API) — accept the calendar reset and start clean. Goals and custom events port one-for-one with the same hash-based event API.

  • Google Analytics · Web analytics

    GA does not export raw events for free, so historical-data migration is impractical. Practical path: install both side-by-side, drop the GA snippet after a 30-day overlap. Plausible imports GA4 metadata (property → site mapping) via Settings → Import from Google Analytics if you connect the GA API once.

  • Mixpanel · Product analytics

    Plausible is page-view + custom events, not full event analytics. Replace Mixpanel only if your usage is pageviews + a handful of named events. No Mixpanel importer; track forward.

README badges for the SaaS this replaces

Maintainers and forks: drop a badge in your README to link readers from the SaaS-comparison page back to your repo.