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The Plausible Analytics alternative for founders who want revenue, not just visits

Plausible is a lightweight, open-source analytics tool that doesn't use cookies. Trakily is built around money: it reads payments from your provider and shows which channels bring paying customers, and you can import your Plausible history.

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The short version

Two good tools, built for different jobs

Both are solid choices. Here's who each one suits best, as of Oct 2026.

Choose
Trakily if…
  • You want revenue per channel from your payment provider without sending revenue events
  • You want revenue attribution on the entry plan, not only on a higher tier
  • You want to open a paying customer and see every visit before they bought
  • You're fine with a first-party cookie (or want the option of a cookieless script)
Choose
Plausible Analytics if…
  • You want analytics without any cookies and no cookie banner for it
  • You want open-source software you can self-host for free (Community Edition)
  • You want your analytics data hosted in the EU
  • You need a Looker Studio connector
Full breakdown

Trakily vs Plausible Analytics, feature by feature

What each tool does today, checked against Plausible Analytics's own documentation as of Oct 2026.

Supported With caveats Not available Detail
01Revenue & attribution
Revenue by channel, page and campaign
TrakilyYes: On every plan. Payments are matched to the visit that brought the buyer
Plausible AnalyticsPartly: Business plan and up, from revenue values you attach to goal events[2][1]
Payment provider sync
TrakilyYes: Stripe, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle, Dodo Payments and Razorpay with an API key
Plausible AnalyticsPartly: Revenue comes from events your site sends; plugins cover WooCommerce and Shopify[2]
Individual customer journeys
TrakilyYes: Every visit before a payment, on the Growth plan and up
Plausible AnalyticsPartly: Aggregate user journeys on the Business plan[1]
02Reports
Realtime
TrakilyYes: Live visitors, plus alerts when someone pays
Plausible AnalyticsYes: Realtime dashboard[3]
Goals and funnels
TrakilyYes: Goals on every plan, funnels on Growth and up
Plausible AnalyticsYes: Goals on every plan; funnels of 2 to 8 steps on Business[4][1]
Search Console data
TrakilyYes: Queries and clicks next to your traffic
Plausible AnalyticsYes: Search Console integration[5]
Stats API
TrakilyYes: Stats API on the Scale plan
Plausible AnalyticsYes: Stats API on the Business plan and up[6][1]
03Privacy & data
Cookies
TrakilyNote: First-party cookies on your domain, or an optional cookieless script
Plausible AnalyticsNote: No cookies; visitors are counted with a daily-rotated hash[7]
Data retention
TrakilyNote: 1, 3 or 5 years depending on plan
Plausible AnalyticsNote: 3 years on Starter and Growth, 5 years on Business[1]
Open source and self-hosting
TrakilyNo: Hosted only, not self-hostable
Plausible AnalyticsYes: Community Edition under AGPLv3, free to self-host (without funnels or revenue goals)[8]
04Setup & pricing
Install
TrakilyYes: One script tag, about 3.5 KB gzipped
Plausible AnalyticsYes: One snippet in your site's <head>[9]
Bring your old data
TrakilyYes: Import your Plausible export, and your GA4 history
Plausible AnalyticsYes: GA4 import[10]
Free trial
TrakilyNote: 14 days, no card required
Plausible AnalyticsNote: 30 days, no card required[1]
Price
TrakilyNote: From $9/month, revenue attribution included
Plausible AnalyticsNote: From $9/month; revenue and funnels from $19/month (Business)[1]

Plausible Analytics details last checked on October 7, 2026 against the official pages below. Features and prices change; check their site for the latest. Plausible Analytics is a trademark of its owner, and Trakily isn't affiliated with it.

  1. [1] Plausible pricing
  2. [2] Ecommerce revenue tracking
  3. [3] Realtime dashboard
  4. [4] Funnel analysis
  5. [5] Search Console integration
  6. [6] Stats API
  7. [7] Data policy
  8. [8] Community Edition
  9. [9] Add the tracking script
  10. [10] Import from Google Analytics

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Pricing

What you'd actually pay

Plausible Analytics prices as published on their site, Oct 2026.

Trakily
From$9/month
14-day free trial, no card required. 2 months free on yearly.
Starter10k monthly events · 1 website$9/mo
Growth100k monthly events · 10 websites$19/mo
Scale1M monthly events · Unlimited websites$49/mo

Revenue attribution and payment sync on every plan.

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Plausible Analytics
$9/mo
Starter, at 10k monthly pageviews. 30-day free trial.
Starter1 site · 3 years retention$9/mo
Growth3 sites · 3 team members$14/mo
Business10 sites · funnels, revenue, Stats API$19/mo
EnterpriseSSO, raw data exportCustom

Prices shown at 10k monthly pageviews; both tools save 2 months on yearly billing. Plausible's revenue goals and funnels start on Business. Trakily includes revenue attribution on every plan.

Source: Plausible pricing
Why founders switch

What Trakily does differently

Where the two tools differ most for founders who sell online.

+ Polar
Google$1,240
ChatGPT$880
X$360

Revenue from your provider, not from events

Paste an API key from Stripe, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle, Dodo Payments or Razorpay. Payments, refunds and subscriptions are matched to the visitor who made them, with no revenue events to send.

Found you on GoogleMon
Read /pricingMon
Came back from ChatGPTThu
Lena paid · Growth plan$190

See what convinced each customer

Open any paying customer and follow every visit before they bought, from the first click to the checkout.

Visitors
12.4k
Revenue
$4,280
Conv.
3.1%

Still one simple screen

If you like Plausible's single dashboard, Trakily will feel familiar: visitors and revenue on one chart, with channels, pages and countries underneath.

ChatGPT$880
Claude$410
Perplexity$260
Gemini$120

Know which AI assistants send buyers

Visits from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini are grouped into their own channel, with the revenue they bring. AI crawlers get a card of their own.

Switching

Switching takes 2 minutes

Keep Plausible Analytics running while you try Trakily. Nothing to remove until you're sure.

<script defer
  data-website-id="…"
  src="https://trakily.com/js/script.js"></script>
1

Paste one script

Add the snippet to your site's <head>. Works with Next.js, WordPress, Webflow, Framer, Shopify and anything else that serves HTML.

Payments synced
2

Connect payments

Paste an API key from Stripe, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Paddle, Dodo Payments or Razorpay. Past payments sync too.

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Import your Plausible Analytics history

In Plausible, open Site settings → Imports & Exports and export your data as CSV. Upload the ZIP in Trakily and your history comes along: visitors, sources, pages, countries, devices and custom events. Imported days stop where Trakily's own data starts, so nothing is counted twice.

FAQ

Trakily vs Plausible Analytics, answered

What people ask before they switch.

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If you sell online and want to know which channels bring paying customers, yes: Trakily reads payments from your provider on every plan. If your priority is no cookies at all, open source or self-hosting, Plausible is the better fit.

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