Everything Plausible offers, plus session replay, user journeys, monitoring, and more. Same privacy-first approach, deeper insights.
Watch real user sessions to understand behavior and fix issues.
Plausible: No session replay. Privacy-focused, but limits behavioral insights.
Visualize how users navigate through your site page by page.
Plausible: Funnel analysis only. No individual user journey visualization.
Uptime monitoring and performance tracking included.
Plausible: Analytics only. Monitoring requires separate tools.
See how Betterlytics and Plausible compare side-by-side
| Feature | ||
|---|---|---|
| Privacy & Compliance | ||
| Cookieless tracking | ||
| GDPR-ready by default | ||
| No cookie banner needed | ||
| EU data hosting | ||
| Privacy-first by default | ||
| No cross-site tracking | ||
| Open source | ||
| Performance & Speed | ||
| Script size | <2KB | <2KB |
| Page load impact | Minimal | Minimal |
| Works with ad blockers | ||
| Analytics Features | ||
| Real-time dashboard | ||
| Custom events | ||
| Funnel analysis | ||
| Campaign tracking (UTM) | ||
| Outbound link tracking | ||
| User journey tracking | ||
| Annotations | ||
| Session replay | ||
| Performance monitoring | ||
| Uptime monitoring | ||
| Ease of Use | ||
| Setup time | <5 minutes | <5 minutes |
| Learning curve | Gentle | Gentle |
| Simple, intuitive interface | ||
| No complex configuration | ||
| Data retention | Up to 5 years | Unlimited |
| Pricing & Support | ||
| Free tier available | ||
| Transparent pricing | ||
| Self-hosting option | ||
| Email support | ||
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A deeper look at what makes Betterlytics different
Plausible and Betterlytics share the same DNA: privacy-first, lightweight, no cookies, GDPR-ready out of the box. Both are great alternatives to Google Analytics if privacy matters to you.
The difference? Betterlytics includes session replay, user journey tracking, and monitoring. Plausible keeps things minimal on purpose. If you need behavioral insights beyond pageviews and conversions, we've got you covered.
Plausible skips session replay entirely to stay maximally private. Fair choice. But it means you can't see where users click, where they get stuck, or why they leave.
We include session replay while staying cookieless and privacy-compliant. No cross-site tracking, you control what gets recorded. The behavioral insights you need with strong privacy safeguards.
Plausible does core analytics really well: pageviews, referrers, conversions, funnels. Clean and focused. But when you need uptime monitoring or performance tracking, you're adding more tools.
Betterlytics bundles analytics, session replay, user journeys, and monitoring in one place. One dashboard, one bill, same privacy standards across everything.
Plausible starts at $9/month for 10,000 pageviews. No free tier on hosted, though self-hosting is free if you handle the infrastructure.
Betterlytics starts at $6/month with a free tier for smaller sites. You get session replay, monitoring, user journeys included. More features, lower starting price.
Plausible keeps its scope intentionally narrow: privacy-first traffic analytics with a famously minimalist UI. If you just need pageviews, referrers, and conversion goals with zero extra surface area, Plausible's focused product and established brand might be the more comfortable choice.
Betterlytics adds session replay, journeys, performance insights, and monitoring without abandoning that privacy baseline. If you're ready for deeper behavior insight and fewer vendors, the extra capability is already built in; no extra tools to stitch together.
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