Absolutely Analytics vs Plausible Analytics

These two cost exactly the same. Nine, fourteen and nineteen at ten thousand pageviews a month, with the same three tier names gating a very similar set of features, and Absolutely Analytics says so openly on its own pricing page rather than hoping you will not notice. So this comparison cannot be decided on price, and anybody who tells you otherwise has not read both pricing pages.

What is left is what the money buys. Both are cookieless, both need no consent banner, both rotate a daily salt so visitors cannot be joined across days, and both give you a clean single-screen dashboard that a marketing manager can read without training. The differences are narrower than the category usually offers and they fall in three places: behaviour tooling, the meter, and what happens when you go over.

The verdict

Absolutely Analytics, on the strength of three things Plausible does not offer at any price. Click, scroll and attention maps are included from the fourteen-dollar tier rather than requiring a second subscription. Bots and AI crawlers are filtered before the counter runs, so roughly a third of raw arrivals never reach your bill. And the published overage policy keeps collecting and keeps your dashboard open, where Plausible locks dashboards after two consecutive months over allowance.

Plausible is still an excellent product and the margin is not enormous. Take it instead if the six-year track record and the twenty-one thousand paying subscribers matter more to you than heatmaps, which for a risk-averse buyer is a perfectly reasonable position, or if you want the option of self-hosting the community edition later.

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