Grosslytics vs Plausible
The Plausible alternative that shows where revenue comes from.
Plausible is simple, private traffic analytics. Grosslytics keeps that simplicity, with a 1.5 KB script and no cookies, and adds what Plausible does not: it receives your payment webhooks, credits each sale to the channel that brought the buyer, and shows revenue after gateway fees and ad spend. Choose Plausible for open-source, EU-hosted traffic analytics; choose Grosslytics when you need to know which channels pay.
By the Grosslytics team · · Checked against plausible.io
What is Plausible?
Plausible (plausible.io) is open-source, cookie-free web analytics, made and hosted in the EU. It covers pageviews, sources, goals and custom events, funnels, saved segments and annotations, and can import Google Analytics data. Revenue can be recorded by sending revenue values with custom events from your own code; it does not list payment-provider integrations.
Plausible vs Grosslytics at a glance
| Capability | Plausible | Grosslytics |
|---|---|---|
| Tracker size (Brotli) | 1.1 KB | 1.5 KB |
| Price | From $9/mo (Starter, 10k pageviews, 1 site); 30-day free trial | $0 self-hosted; hosted $5/mo and $29 lifetime plans |
| Revenue | Revenue values sent with custom events | Payment webhooks credit each sale to a channel |
| Payment providers | No integrations listed | Stripe, Razorpay, Polar, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy |
| Attribution models | Not offered | First touch, last touch, linear |
| Gateway fees | Not mentioned on plausible.io | Deducted automatically per gateway |
| Buyer journeys | Not offered | Every visit and page before each sale |
| Cookies | No cookies | No cookies; a random visitor ID in localStorage |
| Open source | Yes | No |
| Hosting | Hosted in the EU | Your own Cloudflare account |
Plausible details are from their public website, checked 2026-11-07. Tracker sizes were measured by compressing each script with Brotli. Sources: plausible.io (features and pricing), plausible.io/js/script.js (measured).
Choose Plausible if
- You only need traffic analytics, not revenue
- You need open-source software or EU hosting
- You want Google Analytics import and a long track record
Choose Grosslytics if
- You sell through Stripe, Razorpay, Polar, Paddle or Lemon Squeezy
- You want each sale credited to the post or search that found the buyer
- You want revenue per visitor and profit per channel
- You want to self-host for free
Plausible pricing vs Grosslytics pricing
Plausible Starter is $9/month for up to 10,000 pageviews and one site, with a 30-day free trial and no retention limit. Growth starts at $14/month, and price rises with traffic.
Grosslytics self-hosted is $0 on your own Cloudflare account, with no pageview or site limit from us. Hosted plans are offered from /start.
Revenue goals vs revenue attribution
In Plausible, you send a revenue amount with a custom event, usually from your checkout success page. That tells you a sale happened on that visit. It does not hear about renewals, refunds or fees, and a buyer who comes back days later from another channel is credited to that last visit only.
Grosslytics listens to your payment provider instead. Each signed webhook is matched to the visitor ID carried through checkout, so first-touch, last-touch and linear credit, renewals, full Stripe refunds and gateway fees are all handled without event code.
Privacy
Both tools are cookie-free. Plausible identifies visits with a daily-rotating hash and stores nothing in the browser. Grosslytics stores a random visitor ID in localStorage, which is what lets it connect a purchase days later to the first visit. That trade-off buys revenue attribution; check whether your visitors’ jurisdiction needs a notice or consent for it.