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Plausible vs Shaper
Focuses on privacy-friendly web analytics, not embeddable SQL dashboards
PlausiblePrivacy-friendly, open-source web analytics
ShaperOpen Source, Minimal Data Platform For Embedded AnalyticsWhich to pick
Pick Plausible if you want…
- Simple, privacy-friendly web analytics
- Integrations with Data Studio Connector or NPM package (on Plausible's list, not Shaper's)
Pick Shaper if you want…
- SQL-driven embedded analytics
- Integrations with DuckDB, NATS or Postgres (on Shaper'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.
- Shaper:Shaper is an open-source, SQL-driven data platform for building and embedding analytics dashboards.
- Best for
- Plausible:Simple, privacy-friendly web analytics
- Shaper:SQL-driven embedded analytics
- Who it’s for
- Plausible:Website owners, marketers and developers who need easy, GDPR-compliant analytics.
- Shaper:Developers and product teams who need embeddable analytics with full data control.
- Pricing
- Plausible:Freemium
- Shaper:Freemium
- Plans
- Plausible:—
- Shaper:Standard $59/month per month · Pro $249/month per month · Enterprise $799/month per month
- Open source
- Plausible:Yes, 29,274 GitHub stars
- Shaper:Yes, 1,251 GitHub stars
- Works with
- Plausible:Data Studio Connector, NPM package
- Shaper:DuckDB, NATS, Postgres, S3, Google Sheets, React SDK, JWT, OIDC
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.
Shaper features
- Dynamic Dashboards. Create interactive dashboards with data filters, chart annotations and conditional sections using pure SQL.
- Full DuckDB Power. Query across multiple data sources, use extensions and pre-compute state as temporary tables.
- Embedded Analytics. Embed dashboards via JS/React SDKs and row-level security with per-user JWT tokens.
- Data Export & Reporting. Generate CSV/Excel downloads, PDFs and share password-protected links.
- BI as Code. Version dashboards in Git and automate creation with AI agents.
- Remote Data & Ingest API. Connect to Postgres, S3, Google Sheets and ingest real-time data via an HTTP API that infers schema.
- Task Scheduling. Define scheduled SQL tasks and receive Slack or email notifications.
- Simple Deployment. Run the whole platform in a single Docker container on your own infrastructure.
Plausible vs Shaper FAQ
Is Plausible or Shaper free?+
Plausible has a free plan and paid plans. Shaper has a free plan; paid plans start at $59/month (Standard).
Is Plausible or Shaper open source?+
Yes, both are open source: Plausible (plausible/analytics on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license) and Shaper (taleshape-com/shaper on GitHub, MPL-2.0 license).
Do Plausible and Shaper integrate with the same tools?+
Their integration lists don't overlap: Plausible lists Data Studio Connector and NPM package; Shaper lists DuckDB, NATS, Postgres, S3 and 6 more.
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