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Plausible Analytics vs Vercel

Privacy-first web analytics — cookieless, no GDPR/CCPA nightmare
vs. Frontend cloud for Next.js and modern web frameworks

Plausible Analytics ↗Vercel 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 ↗

Vercel

Hobby (Free)
Free forever. 100 GB bandwidth, 1M functions, 360 GB-hrs memory, 1M edge requests. 1 developer. Hard caps.
Free
Pro
$20/user/month. 1 TB bandwidth, pay-as-you-go overages. Team seats, concurrent builds.
$20/mo
Enterprise
Custom pricing. SLA, SSO, audit logs, dedicated support.
Custom
Vercel website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing starter on Plausible Analytics vs hobby on Vercel.

MetricPlausible AnalyticsVercel
bandwidth gb month—100 GB/month
edge requests—1000000 requests/month
function invocations—1000000 invocations/month
memory gb hrs—360 GB-hrs/month
team members—1 users

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.

Vercel · 15 features

  • Cron Jobs — Scheduled serverless functions. JSON config in vercel.json.
  • Edge Functions — V8-isolate serverless functions at edge locations. Lower cold start than Lambda.
  • Edge Middleware — Intercept requests at edge before hitting origin — auth, routing, A/B tests.
  • Git-based Deploys — Auto-deploy from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket on every push. Preview URLs for every…
  • Image Optimization — On-the-fly resize, format conversion (AVIF, WebP), CDN caching.
  • Incremental Static Regeneration — Re-generate static pages on-demand or via revalidate. Next.js-native.
  • Log Drains — Stream logs to Datadog, Axiom, Logtail, HTTP endpoints.
  • Preview Deployments — Unique URL per Git branch/PR. Password-protect or share. Infinite.
  • Serverless Functions — Node.js, Python, Go. AWS Lambda under the hood. Up to 15 min duration.
  • Speed Insights — Real User Monitoring. FCP, LCP, CLS, INP per page.
  • Vercel Blob — Managed object storage (S3-compatible API).
  • Vercel KV (Redis) — Managed Redis via Upstash. Edge-accessible.
  • Vercel Marketplace — One-click integrations: Supabase, Clerk, Sentry, PostHog, Resend, 100+ services.
  • Vercel Postgres — Managed Neon Postgres. Edge-accessible with @vercel/postgres.
  • Web Analytics — Privacy-friendly web analytics. Core Web Vitals, visitors, pages.

Developer interfaces

KindPlausible AnalyticsVercel
CLI—Vercel CLI
SDK@nuxtjs/plausible + plugins, plausible-tracker (npm)@vercel/client
RESTEvents API, Plausible Stats API, Sites Management APIVercel REST API
MCP—Vercel MCP
OTHERTracker Script (<script>)Edge Runtime Bindings
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