yourapp.comTraffic first, or money first
Plausible shows visitors, sources and goals in a clean dashboard without cookies. Revenue is a value you attach to custom events yourself, and it's a Business plan feature. ownlytics connects to your payment provider and matches every payment, renewal and refund to the visit that brought the buyer.
| ownlytics | Plausible | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Self-hosted: one-time payment of $49, lifetime updates. Hosted: $9/month for 50,000 events or $19/month for 250,000. | Subscription. Starter $9/month (1 site), Growth $14/month (3 sites), Business $19/month (10 sites), Enterprise custom. These are entry prices; they rise with monthly pageviews. Yearly gives two months free. |
| Hosting | Self-hosted on your own  Cloudflare account (Cloudflare Workers + D1), installed with one command. Or hosted by us at ownlytics.xyz/app . | Plausible Cloud, made and hosted in the EU. A self-hosted Community Edition (AGPLv3) is free but leaves out funnels and ecommerce revenue goals, among others. |
| Revenue |  Stripe,  Polar,  Dodo Payments and  Creem, connected with a key. Past sales import; renewals and refunds follow by webhook. | Revenue goals on the Business plan: send a value with a custom event (CSS class, JavaScript or Events API). No direct payment-provider connection. |
| Cookies | Your choice per site: first-party cookies, cookieless, or cookieless until consent. | No cookies and no persistent identifiers, so no consent banner. |
| Sites | Unlimited websites on every option. Self-hosted has no event limit; hosted plans include 50,000 or 250,000 events a month. | Depends on plan: 1, 3 or 10 sites. |
| Trying it | Live demo on the home page. Self-hosted: no trial, all sales final. Hosted: monthly, cancel anytime. | 30-day free trial, no card needed. |
What ownlytics adds
- Payments without event code. Paste a Stripe restricted key, a Polar token, a Dodo API key or a Creem API key. Payment links are tagged automatically; past sales import straight away.
- Subscriptions handled. Renewals inherit the visitor of the first payment, and refunds come off.
- Lifetime value by first source, so you see which channels bring buyers who stay.
- Readable Direct: typed, shared link, checkout return and in-app browsers instead of one mystery bucket.
Privacy is your call per website. Cookieless mode stores nothing in the browser; it links sales to visits from the same day only, while first-party cookies keep attribution across weeks. Privacy modes explained.
When Plausible is the better choice
- You want cookieless analytics with no consent banner and data hosted in the EU by an EU company.
- You only need traffic stats, and revenue isn't the point of the site.
- You want open-source code you can read and self-host (the Community Edition).
- You want a long-established hosted service. ownlytics Hosted (no Cloudflare account needed) is available.
Competitor details as of October 2026, from their public pages: plausible.io pricing, revenue tracking docs, Community Edition. Prices and plans change; check the source before you decide. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we'll fix it.
Ask your AI agent, too
Every ownlytics install has a built-in MCP server. One command connects Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf or VS Code, and your agent answers "which post made me money?" from your own data. The same numbers are in your terminal and behind read-only API keys.
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user ownlytics https://ownlytics.xyz/api/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer dbk_YOUR_KEY"