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Plausible Analytics vs Xata

Privacy-first web analytics — cookieless, no GDPR/CCPA nightmare
vs. Serverless Postgres with branching, zero-downtime schema changes + OpenAI embeddings

Plausible Analytics ↗Xata 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 ↗

Xata

Free
$0. 15GB storage. 10 branches. Unlimited databases. Community support.
Free
Pro
$20/mo + usage. More compute, higher concurrency, priority support.
$20/mo
Enterprise
Custom. SSO, dedicated support, VPC peering, SOC 2.
Custom
Xata website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing starter on Plausible Analytics vs free on Xata.

MetricPlausible AnalyticsXata
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.

Xata · 11 features

  • Ask Xata (OpenAI) — Natural language Q&A over data.
  • Branching — Copy-on-write DB branches.
  • DB Metrics — Query perf + connection metrics.
  • Migration GUI — Visual schema change workflow.
  • pgroll Migrations — Zero-downtime schema evolution via views.
  • PITR Backups — Point-in-time restore.
  • PR Preview Environments — Branch-per-PR with CI integration.
  • Search — Built-in full-text search indexing.
  • Vanilla Postgres — Unmodified Postgres 15+.
  • Vector Search — pgvector-based embeddings + Q&A.
  • Xata Copilot — AI SQL + schema assistant.

Developer interfaces

KindPlausible AnalyticsXata
CLI—pgroll CLI (OSS), xata CLI
SDK@nuxtjs/plausible + plugins, plausible-tracker (npm)@xata.io/client (TS), xata (Python)
RESTEvents API, Plausible Stats API, Sites Management APIXata REST API
OTHERTracker Script (<script>)Direct Postgres (pgroll), Xata Dashboard
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