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Plausible vs qryn
Plausible provides privacy-focused web analytics only, while qryn handles logs, metrics, traces and profiling across any stack.
Which to pick
Pick Plausible if you want…
- Simple, privacy-friendly web analytics
- Web analytics
- Integrations with Data Studio Connector or NPM package (on Plausible's list, not qryn's)
Pick qryn if you want…
- All-in-one polyglot observability
- A free, open-source tool
- Integrations with Loki, Prometheus or Tempo (on qryn's list, not Plausible's)
Side by side
- What it is
- Plausible:Plausible is a lightweight, privacy-first web analytics service that provides simple, real-time insights without cookies.
- qryn:qryn is an open-source polyglot observability stack with OLAP storage compatible with Loki, Prometheus, Tempo and more.
- Best for
- Plausible:Simple, privacy-friendly web analytics
- qryn:All-in-one polyglot observability
- Who it’s for
- Plausible:Website owners, marketers and developers who need easy, GDPR-compliant analytics.
- qryn:Developers and engineers needing unified logs, metrics, traces and profiling.
- Pricing
- Plausible:Freemium
- qryn:Open source
- Open source
- Plausible:Yes, 29,274 GitHub stars
- qryn:Yes
- Works with
- Plausible:Data Studio Connector, NPM package
- qryn:Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Pyroscope, OpenTelemetry, InfluxDB, Datadog, Elastic
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.
qryn features
- Polyglot compatibility. Drop-in support for Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Pyroscope and other observability formats.
- OLAP engine. Powered by ClickHouse for fast, columnar queries across logs, metrics and traces.
- Familiar query languages. Use LogQL, PromQL and TempoQL to query and visualize data.
- Broad ingestion. Ingest data via OpenTelemetry, Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Influx, Datadog, Elastic and more.
- Built-in Explorer & CLI. Explore data locally or via Grafana datasource compatibility.
- Self-hosted storage options. Store data in ClickHouse, DuckDB or InfluxDB IOx with optional S3 backing.
- Lightweight runtime. Runs on Bun, a fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime.
- Unmetered open source. Unlimited self-hosted deployments with a commercial cloud option for advanced features.
Plausible vs qryn FAQ
Is Plausible or qryn free?+
Plausible has a free plan and paid plans. qryn is free and open source.
Is Plausible or qryn open source?+
Yes, both are open source: Plausible (plausible/analytics on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license) and qryn (metrico/qryn on GitHub).
Do Plausible and qryn integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: Plausible lists Data Studio Connector and NPM package; qryn lists Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Pyroscope and 8 more.
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