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Plausible Analytics vs Portkey

Privacy-first web analytics — cookieless, no GDPR/CCPA nightmare
vs. Enterprise AI gateway + observability + guardrails + prompt mgmt

Plausible Analytics ↗Portkey website ↗

Pricing tiers

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 ↗

Portkey

Developer (Free)
Free forever. 10k logs/month. Universal API + key management. 3 prompt templates. Basic observability.
Free
Gateway (OSS)
MIT-licensed gateway only (no observability UI). Self-host for routing/fallbacks.
$0 base (usage-based)
Production
$49/month. 100k logs ($9 per additional 100k). Fallbacks, load balancing, retries, semantic caching. Unlimited prompts. RBAC.
$49/mo
Enterprise
Custom. 10M+ logs/month. Custom guardrails, advanced evals, SSO, budget controls, VPC + on-prem, SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR.
Custom
Portkey website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing starter on Plausible Analytics vs free on Portkey.

MetricPlausible AnalyticsPortkey
No overlapping quota metrics for these tiers.

Features

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.

Portkey · 18 features

  • AI Gateway — Unified OpenAI-compatible API to 250+ LLMs.
  • Alerts — Thresholds on latency, error rate, cost, usage.
  • Budget Controls — Per-key + per-team spending limits.
  • Evaluations — Built-in evaluator templates + custom.
  • Fallbacks — Config-driven provider fallback chains.
  • Guardrails — Pre/post processors for safety + compliance.
  • Load Balancing — Round-robin, weighted, least-latency across providers.
  • MCP Support — Use MCP servers as tools through gateway.
  • Observability — Logs, traces, feedback, alerts, cost tracking.
  • OSS Gateway — Open-source gateway (portkey-ai/gateway).
  • Prompt Library — Shared prompt library + public marketplace.
  • Prompt Templates — Version + test + collaborate on prompts.
  • Retries — Configurable retry policies per route.
  • Role-Based Access Control — Team permissions on prompts + keys.
  • Semantic Caching — Vector-based cache on query meaning.
  • Simple Caching — Exact-match cache.
  • Virtual Keys — Per-app keys with budget + rate limits + permissions.
  • VPC Deployment (Ent) — Deploy in your own VPC for compliance.

Developer interfaces

KindPlausible AnalyticsPortkey
CLI—Portkey CLI
SDK@nuxtjs/plausible + plugins, plausible-tracker (npm)portkey-ai (Node), portkey-ai (Python)
RESTEvents API, Plausible Stats API, Sites Management APIPortkey API (OpenAI-compat)
MCP—Portkey MCP
OTHERTracker Script (<script>)Portkey Dashboard
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