3 categories · RankedPlausible Analytics
Plausible Analytics is a web analytics product from Plausible that works as a lightweight, cookieless, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics · plausible.io ↗
Strongest at small business. Ranked 25 of 83 for enterprise buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Google Analytics 4 is first at 57%.
Google Analytics 4 is first at 55%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Adobe Analytics is first at 35%.
Why models recommend it
“Privacy-oriented tools like Plausible and Matomo are often chosen because they emphasize data minimization, fewer cookies, and more control.”GPT-5.4 mini · Negative question · first choice
“Plausible or Pirsch: Lightweight, open-source, cookieless, and EU-hosted for GDPR compliance.”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · first choice
“alternatives like Plausible Analytics, Fathom, and Matomo have driven significant adoption”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · first choice
“EU-hosted, no cookies, no personal data collection, GDPR-compliant without consent banners”Kimi K2 · Negative question · first choice
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Plausible Analytics, over the 135 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 124 | 58 | Compare → | |
| 99 | 3 | View → | |
| 65 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 54 | 3 | View → | |
| 54 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 52 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 45 | 0 | View → | |
| 38 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 38 | 1 | View → | |
| 30 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Plausible Analytics →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Plausible Analytics's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- Ecommerce, SaaS, Agencies, Creators & publishers, Public sector, White-label analytics, Enterprise
- Price stated
- Traffic based plans that match your growth. Sign up for 30-day free trial. No credit card required.
- Starting price
- 7.50
- Free plan or trial
- 30-day free trial
- Hosting
- EU, the EU, Germany
- Customers named
- Hugging Face, Basecamp, Ghost, Paperbell, 37signals
- Headquarters
- Tartu, Estonia
- Founded
- 2018
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 114 of the 135 answers that named Plausible Analytics and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
263 of the 300 domain citations in answers naming Plausible Analytics came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 109 | 12 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Report or ebook | 17 | 3 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Comparison | 8 | 4 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Template or tool | 3 | 3 | 2026-09-24 | ||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2026-09-24Ad cost calculator: CPC, CPM and CPA template or tool
- 2026-09-24How much JavaScript does Google Analytics add to your site? blog
- 2026-09-24Cloudflare Web Analytics vs Plausible: A dedicated tool vs a side feature blog
- 2026-09-24Conversion rate calculator template or tool
- 2026-09-24Cookie banner traffic loss calculator template or tool
- 2026-09-24EU-hosted web analytics with no data transfers outside Europe blog
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page plausible.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read September 29, 2026.