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OpenPanel vs Plausible
Privacy-focused, lightweight web analytics without product-level features
Which to pick
Pick OpenPanel if you want…
- Open-source Mixpanel alternative
- Integrations with Slack, Discord or Webhooks (on OpenPanel's list, not Plausible's)
Pick Plausible if you want…
- Simple, privacy-friendly web analytics
- Integrations with Data Studio Connector or NPM package (on Plausible's list, not OpenPanel's)
Side by side
- What it is
- OpenPanel:OpenPanel is an open-source web and product analytics platform offering Mixpanel-level features with privacy-first, cookie-less tracking.
- Plausible:Plausible is a lightweight, privacy-first web analytics service that provides simple, real-time insights without cookies.
- Best for
- OpenPanel:Open-source Mixpanel alternative
- Plausible:Simple, privacy-friendly web analytics
- Who it’s for
- OpenPanel:Product teams, developers and marketers who need self-hosted or cloud analytics without data limits.
- Plausible:Website owners, marketers and developers who need easy, GDPR-compliant analytics.
- Pricing
- OpenPanel:Paid
- Plausible:Freemium
- Plans
- OpenPanel:5K events per month $2.50 per month · 100K events per month $20.00 per month · 1.0M events per month $90.00 per month · Self-hosted Free
- Plausible:—
- Open source
- OpenPanel:Yes, 7,080 GitHub stars
- Plausible:Yes, 29,274 GitHub stars
- Works with
- OpenPanel:Slack, Discord, Webhooks
- Plausible:Data Studio Connector, NPM package
OpenPanel features
- Real-time dashboards. Build line charts, funnels, retention curves and Sankey diagrams instantly without SQL.
- Privacy-first tracking. No cookies, GDPR-compliant, EU-hosted and cookie-less data collection.
- Session replay. Watch exact user clicks, scrolls and interactions with built-in privacy controls.
- Revenue & conversion tracking. Attach monetary values to events and monitor conversion rates and A/B variants.
- AI-native analytics (MCP). Query your data with Claude, Cursor or custom AI agents via a simple API.
- Webhooks & integrations. Push events to Slack, Discord or any webhook endpoint for automated workflows.
- Unlimited collaboration. Invite unlimited team members, share dashboards publicly or protect them with passwords.
- Self-hosted option. Deploy the platform for free with unlimited events on your own infrastructure.
Plausible features
- Automatic scroll depth tracking. Tracks scroll depth from 1-100% on every page without any setup.
- AI traffic analytics. Identifies visits from AI assistants like ChatGPT and measures their conversions.
- SEO performance dashboard. Integrates Search Console data to show queries and organic traffic in the dashboard.
- Real-time dashboard. Updates traffic metrics every 30 seconds without needing a page refresh.
- Codeless goals & revenue tracking. Turns any page, download or link click into a goal and tracks revenue automatically.
- Built-in bot filtering. Excludes bots, referrer spam and data-center traffic out of the box.
OpenPanel vs Plausible FAQ
Is OpenPanel or Plausible free?+
OpenPanel has a free plan (Self-hosted); paid plans start at $2.50/month (5K events per month). Plausible has a free plan and paid plans.
Is OpenPanel or Plausible open source?+
Yes, both are open source: OpenPanel (Openpanel-dev/openpanel on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license) and Plausible (plausible/analytics on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license).
Do OpenPanel and Plausible integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: OpenPanel lists Slack, Discord and Webhooks; Plausible lists Data Studio Connector and NPM package.
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