Plausible
Lightweight, privacy-focused open-source web analytics, available hosted or self-hosted.
HN commenters recommend it as a solid, open-source web analytics tool12 that many run on their own self-hosted servers.34 The main complaint is that self-hosting it with ClickHouse needs several containers and idles at 4+ GB of memory.5
Why people recommend it
Self-hostable · 2
Commenters run their own Plausible instance as part of their self-hosted setups.
“primarily I use it to host my self-hosted instance of plausible.io”
“Plausible: Analytics”
Reliable · 2
Long-term users describe it as solid and say it works great.
“I have been using Plausible for a couple years, it works great and is opensource”
“Plausible is solid”
Open source · 1
A long-term user points out that it is open source.
“I have been using Plausible for a couple years, it works great and is opensource”
No consent banner · 1
Being cookieless means there is no consent banner to build.
“Plausible is solid”
Elixir codebase · 1
It is written in Elixir, which suits Phoenix users, and its engineering blog is well regarded.
“Plausible is solid”
Caveats and dissent
Resource usage · 1
The self-hosted ClickHouse backend needs about four containers and idles at 4+ GB of memory, which led one user to switch to Umami.
“clickhouse requires like 4 different containers and idles using 4+ GB”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: What do you use for privacy focused analytics? 2 mentions
- Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7? 1 mention
- Ask HN: What self-hosted apps do you use daily? 1 mention
- Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics 1 mention
- Show HN: KiCad in the Browser 1 mention
- Show HN: TrashAlert – I asked AI when my trash gets picked up. It hallucinated 1 mention
Data: plausible.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 10
“primarily I use it to host my self-hosted instance of plausible.io”
“Plausible: Analytics”
“Plausible is solid”
“Has anyone tried Plausible or Rybbit?”
“clickhouse requires like 4 different containers and idles using 4+ GB”
“~30% of our visitors ( from Plausible ) are on Safari”
“Plausible + GA4”
“Plausible + GA4”
“I have been using Plausible for a couple years, it works great and is opensource”
“There’s property testing with “plausible” as a nice 80/20 that can be upgraded to full proof at some point.”