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Amplitude vs Plausible Analytics

Digital analytics + experimentation + CDP
vs. Privacy-first web analytics — cookieless, no GDPR/CCPA nightmare

Amplitude website ↗Plausible Analytics ↗

Pricing tiers

Amplitude

Starter (Free)
10K Monthly Tracked Users, 10M events/mo. Session Replay + unlimited feature flags + Web Experimentation + AI Feedback included.
Free
Plus
$49/mo (annual). Up to 300K MTUs + 25M events. Unlimited product analytics, behavioral cohorts, feature tagging, custom audiences.
$49/mo
Growth
Custom. Causal insights, Feature Experimentation, real-time streaming, predictive audiences.
Custom
Enterprise
Custom. Cross-product analysis, advanced data controls, mutual exclusion groups, multi-armed bandit.
Custom
Amplitude website ↗

Plausible Analytics

Self-Hosted (CE)
Community Edition — AGPL-licensed, run on your own infra.
$0 base (usage-based)
Starter
$9/month. 1 site. Basic dashboard, goals, 3-year data retention.
$9/mo
Growth
$14/month. 3 sites + 3 team members. Shared dashboards + team mgmt.
$14/mo
Business
$19/month. 10 sites + 10 members. Custom properties, API access, funnels, 5-year retention.
$19/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SSO, managed proxy, priority support.
Custom
Plausible Analytics ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing starter on Amplitude vs starter on Plausible Analytics.

MetricAmplitudePlausible Analytics
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

Amplitude · 13 features

  • AI Feedback (Asking) — Natural language questions over your Amplitude data.
  • Amplitude CDP — Customer Data Platform — identify, segment, sync to 150+ destinations.
  • Causal Insights — AI identifies why a metric changed — root cause.
  • Cross-Product Analysis — Analyze across multiple apps/products in the same org.
  • Data Governance — Taxonomies, schemas, approvals, category management.
  • Data Warehouse Sync — Sync data to/from Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Databricks.
  • Feature Experimentation — Server-side / SDK-level experiments. Growth+.
  • Feature Flags — Targeting rules + rollouts. Unlimited in Starter.
  • North Star Metric — Pre-built dashboards for key metric tracking.
  • Predictive Audiences — ML-based forecasting of user behavior.
  • Product Analytics — Core events + funnels + retention + segmentation.
  • Session Replay — Pixel-perfect user session recording + privacy masking.
  • Web Experimentation — A/B test visual changes on your site without deploy.

Plausible Analytics · 16 features

  • 404 Error Tracking — Auto-detect 404 pages.
  • Custom Properties — Attach arbitrary properties to events (Business+).
  • Email/Slack Reports — Weekly + monthly reports to email/Slack.
  • File Download Tracking — Track PDF/DOC/ZIP downloads.
  • Funnels — Multi-step funnel analysis (Business+).
  • Goals & Conversions — Track custom events + pageview-based goals.
  • Import from Google Analytics — Import historical GA data via script.
  • Managed Proxy (Ent) — Proxy plausible.io through your domain to bypass ad-blockers.
  • Outbound Link Tracking — One-line extension to track outbound clicks.
  • Revenue Goals — Track $ amounts per goal. Great for e-commerce.
  • Self-Hosting — Run via Docker. AGPL Community Edition.
  • Shared Dashboards — Public or password-protected share links.
  • Single-page Dashboard — All your metrics on one page: visitors, pageviews, sources, devices, countries, …
  • Stats API — Pull data into your own tools via REST. Business+.
  • Team Management — Owners, admins, viewers per site.
  • UTM Campaigns — Track utm_source/medium/campaign automatically.

Developer interfaces

KindAmplitudePlausible Analytics
SDKamplitude-analytics-python, @amplitude/analytics-react-native, amplitude-android, amplitude-js / browser-sdk, amplitude-node, AmplitudeSwift (iOS)@nuxtjs/plausible + plugins, plausible-tracker (npm)
RESTAmplitude HTTP API v2, Batch Event API, Export APIEvents API, Plausible Stats API, Sites Management API
OTHERData Destinations (webhooks)Tracker Script (<script>)
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