If you want a clear view of your traffic and don’t sell anything online, Plausible does that job very well.
At a glance
| Detail | DataPenny | Plausible |
|---|---|---|
| Starts from | Payments and visits | Visits |
| Revenue | Connect your provider with a key | Revenue goals you send, on the Business plan |
| Hosted price | Planned, with a small free tier | From $9 a month for 10,000 pageviews |
| Self-hosted | On your Cloudflare, no server | On your own server |
| Cookies | Your choice per site | None |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | Open source |
When Plausible is the better pick
- You mainly care about traffic, and don’t take payments online.
- You want a hosted product from a long-running company today.
- You want no cookies at all, and don’t need revenue by source.
When DataPenny is the better pick
- You want each sale credited to a post, search or link without sending revenue events yourself.
- You want renewals, refunds and lifetime value by source.
- You don’t want to run a server.
Moving your history
DataPenny imports a Plausible export, so your charts show the months before you switched. See Import from Plausible.
Prices and features checked November 2026. DataPenny isn’t affiliated with Plausible.