Plausible Analytics
Simple, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 156 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v3.2.1 (May 2026).
Also an alternative to Google Analytics, Amplitude and Mixpanel.
At a glance
Plausible Analytics quick facts
- Health score
- 88/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 29,721
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v3.2.1, May 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Plausible Analytics is an open source, privacy-first web analytics tool. Lightweight, cookie-free alternative to Google Analytics. Available in managed cloud or self-hosted community edition."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Plausible Analytics scores 88/100, #16 of 33 in Analytics: 156 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v3.2.1, 6 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 29,721 stars add 17.9 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
156 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v3.2.1 released 6 months ago
- Stars 17.9 / 20
30k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 156
- Last 90 days
- 610
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #16 of 33 tools in Analytics by health , between Netron (#15) and PostHog (#17) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Elixir |
| Latest release | v3.2.1 · 6 months ago |
| Stars | 29,721 |
| Open issues | 27 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | plausible/analytics ↗ |
Plausible Analytics vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Plausible Analytics (Analytics), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Umami | 98 | 40k | MIT | yesterday |
| Rybbit | 96 | 13k | AGPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| Countly Community Edition | 95 | 5.9k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Plausible Analytics (this tool) | 88 | 30k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| PostHog | 88 | 41k | MIT | today |
| Matomo | 87 | 22k | GPL-3.0 | today |
Plausible Analytics: common questions
What does Plausible Analytics replace?
Repoly lists Plausible Analytics as an open-source alternative to Google Analytics, Amplitude and Mixpanel. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Plausible Analytics stands against the others.
Is Plausible Analytics still maintained?
Plausible Analytics had 156 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v3.2.1, is from 6 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.