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Plausible vs VStаt
Focuses on privacy-friendly, open-source site analytics rather than AI-estimated traffic
PlausiblePrivacy-friendly, open-source web analytics
VStаtVStat - AI-Powered Marketing Analysis, any site or domain visitor statisticsWhich to pick
Pick Plausible if you want…
- Simple, privacy-friendly web analytics
- Open-source code (plausible/analytics on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license)
Pick VStаt if you want…
- Browser-based traffic and competitor analysis
Side by side
- What it is
- Plausible:Plausible is a lightweight, privacy-first web analytics service that provides simple, real-time insights without cookies.
- VStаt:VStat provides AI-powered traffic, keyword and competitor insights for any domain directly in the browser.
- Best for
- Plausible:Simple, privacy-friendly web analytics
- VStаt:Browser-based traffic and competitor analysis
- Who it’s for
- Plausible:Website owners, marketers and developers who need easy, GDPR-compliant analytics.
- VStаt:SEO, outreach, sales and market-research teams needing quick domain intelligence.
- Pricing
- Plausible:Freemium
- VStаt:Freemium
- Plans
- Plausible:—
- VStаt:Free $0
- Open source
- Plausible:Yes, 29,274 GitHub stars
- VStаt:—
- Works with
- Plausible:Data Studio Connector, NPM package
- VStаt:—
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.
VStаt features
- Domain traffic overview. Shows estimated visits, trends, engagement and confidence scores for any site.
- Traffic sources & keywords. Displays channels, countries, publishers and organic/paid search terms.
- Public collections. Browse curated lists of sites (e.g., analytics platforms, startups) to jump-start research.
- Collections & export. Save sites to lists, enrich them and export data for CRM or Excel workflows.
- API access. Programmatic retrieval of traffic records and company profiles via prepaid request credits.
- Browser extensions. Chrome, Edge and Yandex extensions show insights without leaving the page.
Plausible vs VStаt FAQ
Is Plausible or VStаt free?+
Plausible has a free plan and paid plans. VStаt has a free plan and paid plans.
Is Plausible or VStаt open source?+
Plausible is open source (plausible/analytics on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license). DevHunt has no public source repository on record for VStаt.
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