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Plausible vs Semaphor
Plausible is a privacy-focused web analytics tool, while Semaphor offers full-stack embedded analytics with per-customer customization and AI integration.
Which to pick
Pick Plausible if you want…
- Simple, privacy-friendly web analytics
- Open-source code (plausible/analytics on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license)
- Integrations with Data Studio Connector or NPM package (on Plausible's list, not Semaphor's)
Pick Semaphor if you want…
- Embedded analytics with tenant isolation
- Integrations with PostgreSQL, MySQL or Snowflake (on Semaphor'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.
- Semaphor:Semaphor provides embedded, customer-facing analytics with a governed semantic model for SaaS apps.
- Best for
- Plausible:Simple, privacy-friendly web analytics
- Semaphor:Embedded analytics with tenant isolation
- Who it’s for
- Plausible:Website owners, marketers and developers who need easy, GDPR-compliant analytics.
- Semaphor:Product teams building SaaS apps that need per-customer analytics.
- Pricing
- Plausible:Freemium
- Semaphor:Contact sales
- Open source
- Plausible:Yes, 29,274 GitHub stars
- Semaphor:—
- Works with
- Plausible:Data Studio Connector, NPM package
- Semaphor:PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, ClickHouse, DuckDB, SQL Server, Amazon S3
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.
Semaphor features
- Single metric definition. Define each metric once in a semantic model and reuse it across all dashboards and queries.
- First-class multi-tenant security. Row, column, and connection-level security isolates each customer's data, roles, and calendars.
- Self-serve customer views. Customers can filter, drill, save views, ask plain-English questions and schedule reports without tickets.
- Agent-native BI API. AI agents like Claude and Codex can build dashboards via the MCP server using the governed model.
- Zero-dependency embed. Embed dashboards via an iframe or native SDKs for React, Vue, and Web Components.
- Live data source connections. Connect directly to PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, ClickHouse, DuckDB, SQL Server, Amazon S3, or REST APIs.
- Self-hostable option. Run Semaphor on your own infrastructure with Docker for GDPR/HIPAA compliance.
Plausible vs Semaphor FAQ
Is Plausible or Semaphor free?+
Plausible has a free plan and paid plans.
Is Plausible or Semaphor open source?+
Plausible is open source (plausible/analytics on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for Semaphor.
Do Plausible and Semaphor integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: Plausible lists Data Studio Connector and NPM package; Semaphor lists PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery and 7 more.
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