Plausible alternative
A Plausible alternative with revenue, uptime and errors
BugOtter is privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics like Plausible, with three things Plausible doesn't do: revenue read straight from your payment provider, uptime checks with status pages, and error tracking. It's built for founders with several apps. If you want open source, EU hosting or one cheap site, Plausible is still the pick.
- $10less a month for 5 sites
- +3jobs: revenue, uptime, errors
- 0cookies by default, like Plausible
The short version
Same calm, cookieless analytics
No cookie banner, goals, funnels and Search Console. Bring your Plausible history with its CSV export.Plus the money and the uptime
Real payments from Stripe, Polar, Lemon Squeezy or Creem, uptime from three regions and error tracking, for every app.Plausible wins on a few things
Open source, EU hosting, unlimited history and one cheap site. When to pick Plausible.
At a glance
| Feature | Plausible | BugOtter |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics | ||
| Cookieless by default | Yes | Yes |
| Goals and custom events | YesAll plans | YesAll plans |
| Funnels | PartlyBusiness plan | YesAll plans |
| Search Console | Yes | YesWith revenue per landing page |
| Import history | YesGoogle Analytics, CSV | YesPlausible and Umami exports |
| Beyond analytics | ||
| Revenue | PartlyRevenue goals you send from your code (Business) | YesRead from Stripe, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, Creem |
| MRR, churn, failed payments | No | Yes |
| Uptime, SSL and domain checks | No | Yes |
| Public status pages | No | Yes |
| Error tracking with source maps | No | Yes |
| Working with it | ||
| Stats API | PartlyBusiness plan | YesAll plans |
| MCP for coding agents | Check their docs | Yes |
| Team members | YesUp to 10 on Business | NoNot yet |
| Data retention | No retention limit | 6 months to 2 years of daily totals |
| Open source, self-hostable | YesCommunity Edition, AGPL | No |
| Where data is stored | EU | United States (US East) |
Checked Nov 4, 2026 on their own pages: plausible.io pricing, Plausible docs: subscription plans, Plausible docs: ecommerce revenue tracking, Plausible docs: Search Console, Plausible Community Edition, plausible.io/features. Prices are in USD as their pages showed them, and they can change. We re-check every quarter.
What Plausible does well
Plausible made cookieless analytics normal. It's a calm, single-page dashboard that people actually read, and it has been around long enough to be the safe choice. A few things it does better than most, including us:
- Open source you can run yourself. The Community Edition is free and AGPL-licensed. Funnels, ecommerce revenue goals and a few other features stay cloud-only.
- Hosted in the EU. Plausible says visitor data is processed on servers owned by European companies and never leaves the EU. If your lawyer asks for that sentence, Plausible has it.
- Your history, kept. The pricing page lists “no retention limit” on every plan, and there's a Google Analytics import to bring old years over.
- Careful bot filtering. User agents, referrer spam and about 40,800 data-center IP ranges, plus “Shields” to block a country, host, IP or page yourself.
- Built for sharing. Team members, saved segments, annotations, email and Slack reports, and on Business a Looker Studio connector.
Where BugOtter is different
Revenue comes from your payment provider, not from events
Plausible's revenue goals are events your code sends with an amount. Their own docs warn that payment webhooks can't be tied back to the visit that led to them.
BugOtter goes the other way. It reads your real payments, subscriptions and refunds from Stripe, Polar, Lemon Squeezy or Creem with a read-only key, then links each one to the visit it came from.
- Stripe Payment Links need nothing extra. For your own checkout you pass the visit id as metadata.
- Lemon Squeezy revenue shows up too, but can't be linked to sources yet: its API doesn't expose checkout data.
- So you see MRR, churn and failed payments next to traffic, and revenue per source counts refunds and renewals, not just the first click on “buy”.
- Revenue per channel, from real payments: social brought $175 this week.
- Errors per channel: referral visitors hit an error 1.4% of the time.
- It says so when one channel hits errors far more than the rest, with a link to the error.
It watches the app, not only the visitors
The same account checks each app every minute from three regions, tracks SSL and domain expiry, and gives every app a status page. The same script that counts visits also catches browser errors, and your server can send errors through any Sentry SDK.
When traffic drops, you can see right there whether the site was down or a deploy broke checkout.
Bots, measured the way a founder needs
Like Plausible, BugOtter drops declared bots, headless browsers, data-center traffic and referrer spam. It also drops events that weren't sent from your own pages, and visitors opening dozens of pages a minute. Each app shows how many it kept out and why.
Everything on every plan
Funnels, the Stats API, Search Console and the MCP server are on every plan. Plausible keeps funnels, revenue goals and its Stats API for Business.
Pricing side by side
The same two cases on both: one small site, and five sites with about 50k pageviews a month.
| Option | Part | Cost | Why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plausible Starter1 site, 10k pageviews | Analytics | $9 | Starter, 10k pageviews. One site |
| Plausible Starter1 site, 10k pageviews | Total | $9/mo | |
| BugOtter StarterUp to 3 apps, 20k pageviews | Analytics, revenue, uptime, errors | $12 | |
| BugOtter StarterUp to 3 apps, 20k pageviews | Total | $12/mo | |
| Plausible Business5 sites, 100k tier | Analytics | $39 | Business, 100k pageviews. Up to 10 sites, 100k pageviews a month |
| Plausible Business5 sites, 100k tier | Total | $39/mo | |
| BugOtter BuilderUp to 10 apps, 200k pageviews | Analytics, revenue, uptime, errors | $29 | |
| BugOtter BuilderUp to 10 apps, 200k pageviews | Total | $29/mo |
For 5 sites you keep $10 a month, with uptime, revenue and errors included. For one site, Plausible is $3 cheaper.
| Feature | Plausible | BugOtter |
|---|---|---|
| Billed yearly | 2 months free ($390/yr for Business 100k) | 2 months free ($290/yr for Builder) |
| Free trial | 30 days, no card | 14 days, no card |
| What the limits count | Pageviews per plan tier | A pool shared by all your apps. Apps you put to sleep (say, no visitors in 30 days) don't count |
For one site and analytics alone, Plausible is cheaper. Once you have a few apps, or you'd pay separately for uptime and errors anyway, BugOtter costs less in total.
Checked Nov 4, 2026 on their own pages: plausible.io pricing. Prices are in USD as their pages showed them, and they can change. We re-check every quarter.
Moving from Plausible
Five steps. Your old charts come with you.
Export your history
In Plausible: Site settings → Imports & Exports → Export to CSV. Keep the zip as it is.Swap the script
Remove Plausible's script tag and add BugOtter's (below). Or let the CLI add the tag and your keys.In your project:npx bugotter initRename your goals
Where your code callsplausible("Signup"), call BugOtter instead (below). Outbound links, file downloads, form submissions and 404s are counted without any code.Move your proxy, if you had one
BugOtter needs three paths on your domain: the script,/api/collectand/api/errors. The Traffic tab gives you the exact rewrites for Next.js,vercel.jsonor Netlify, with your proxy key filled in.Import, then connect revenue
Drop the Plausible zip on the app's Analytics page, check the preview, import. Then connect Stripe, Polar, Lemon Squeezy or Creem on Revenue and remove your old revenue goal events.
<script defer src="https://bugotter.com/bo.js" data-app="YOUR_APP_ID"></script>window.bo?.track("signup");
window.bo?.track("signup", { plan: "pro" });Should you switch?
Questions
Is BugOtter a good Plausible alternative?
If you want more than analytics, yes. BugOtter counts visitors without cookies like Plausible does, and adds revenue read from Stripe, Polar, Lemon Squeezy or Creem, uptime checks with status pages, and error tracking, for every app on one plan. If you only need analytics for one site, or you need self-hosting or EU-only hosting, Plausible is the better fit.
Can I import my Plausible history into BugOtter?
Yes. Export your site from Plausible as CSV (Site settings, Imports & Exports) and drop the zip on the app's Analytics page in BugOtter. The file is read in your browser and only daily totals are sent: visitors, pageviews, visits, bounces and time, by page, source, country, device and browser. Custom goals aren't imported.
Does BugOtter need a cookie banner?
Not by default. The script sets no cookies and keeps the visit id in session storage for one visit. If you want revenue linked to sources across longer journeys, you can opt in to a first-party cookie with data-attribution="cookie"; then check what your local rules ask of you.
Can I import from Google Analytics?
Not yet. BugOtter imports Plausible and Umami exports today. Plausible itself has a Google Analytics import, so one path is GA to Plausible to BugOtter, if you still have a Plausible trial.
Does BugOtter have funnels, goals and Search Console like Plausible?
Yes to all three. Goals with properties via bo.track, funnels on the Analytics page, and a read-only Search Console connection that also shows the revenue each search landing page brought. Plausible puts funnels on its Business plan; on BugOtter every plan has them.
How long does BugOtter keep my analytics?
Daily totals for 6 months on Starter, 1 year on Builder, 2 years on Pro. Raw events, the ones you filter and click through, are kept for 90 days on every plan. Plausible's pricing lists no retention limit, which is a real advantage if you want ten years of charts.
Keep the calm dashboard. Add the money and the uptime.
14 days of everything, no card needed. Plans from $10 a month, billed yearly.