Plausible Analytics
- Free allowance
- No free plan on Plausible Cloud: every account starts with a free 30-day trial with Business plan features and limits and no credit card; the cheapest plan after it is Starter at EUR 9/month for up to 10k monthly pageviews and one site
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- retention-clamped30-day trial, then the dashboard is locked and new stats are not collected
- Evidence
- documented25 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03
| Free tier | No free plan on Plausible Cloud: every account starts with a free 30-day trial with Business plan features and limits and no credit card; the cheapest plan after it is Starter at EUR 9/month for up to 10k monthly pageviews and one site unit none; metered on wall-clock; The trial does not convert to a paid subscription by itself, because no payment method is on file. Growth is EUR 14/month and Business, the plan with the Stats API, EUR 19/month, at the same 10k pageview tier. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits | |
| Binding | retention-clamped The trial ends after 30 days and the dashboard locks, before any pageview or API limit matters. |
| Identity | email The registration form asks for a full name, an e-mail address and a password of at least 12 characters, behind a Friendly Captcha check; no credit card is asked for. The documented flow then sends a four-digit code by e-mail and starts the 30-day trial once it is verified, and Plausible's WordPress page states that registration asks only for a name and an e-mail address. |
| Egress | not applicable: a hosted dashboard; stats leave through the Stats API at 600 requests per hour per key, a Business plan feature that the trial includes |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: billed by pageviews and custom events, not stored objects |
| Retention | When an unsubscribed trial ends, the dashboard is locked, new stats are no longer collected, and dashboards and stats are eventually deleted after an e-mail warning; paid plans state no retention limit |
| Interface | rest Stats API: a read-only HTTP interface, POST /api/v2/query with an API key in the Authorization header, 600 requests per hour by default; on the Business plan and during the trial. The Sites API is Enterprise-only. endpoint: https://plausible.io/api/v2/query |
| Tooling | the tracking script on the site, and any HTTP client with a Stats API key |
| Composes with | A 30-day window to evaluate privacy-focused web analytics, then EUR 9 a month; there is no free allowance to build on. |
| Reliability | After an unsubscribed trial, collection stops and dashboards and stats are deleted permanently after an e-mail warning. |
| Notes | Plausible Cloud has no recurring free allowance. Last resort, after every hosted offer: Plausible Community Edition, the same software under the AGPL, is free to self-host, and the user installs and runs the server on a rented or free machine and maintains it. |
| Evidence note | documented The trial terms, plan prices and API limits are quoted from first-party pages. No account was opened. |
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Evidence 25
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/docs/trial | part of the text of Free tier, above |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/docs/trial | registration asks for no credit card |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/docs/trial | the dashboard locks when the trial ends without a subscription |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/docs/trial | without a subscription collection stops and stats are eventually deleted |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/docs/subscription-plans | all plans include a 30-day trial without a card |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/docs/subscription-plans | the trial has Business plan features and limits |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/#pricing | Starter is EUR 9 a month |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/#pricing | the price shown is for up to 10k monthly pageviews |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/#pricing | Starter covers one site |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/#pricing | paid plans state no retention limit |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/#pricing | Growth is EUR 14 a month |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/#pricing | Business is EUR 19 a month |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/#pricing | the Business plan includes the Stats API at 600 requests per hour |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/docs/stats-api | the Stats API takes POST queries at /api/v2/query |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/docs/stats-api | API keys allow 600 requests per hour by default |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/docs/subscription-plans | the Sites API is an Enterprise feature |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/register | the registration form asks for no card |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/register | the registration form asks for a full name |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/register | the password needs at least 12 characters |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/register | the registration form is behind a Friendly Captcha check |
| 2026-10-30 | plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics | Plausible Community Edition is free, self-hosted and AGPL-licensed |
| 2026-11-01 | plausible.io/wordpress-analytics-plugin | Plausible states that registration asks only for a name and an e-mail address |
| 2026-11-01 | plausible.io/docs/register-account | an e-mailed four-digit code activates the account |
| 2026-11-01 | plausible.io/docs/register-account | the 30-day trial starts as soon as the e-mailed code is verified |
| 2026-11-01 | plausible.io/docs/register-account | the registration form takes a full name, an e-mail address and a password |