# Rybbit vs Plausible

Both are privacy-first, but Rybbit offers session replay, funnels, and user journeys that Plausible doesn't.

## Why consider Rybbit over Plausible?

Plausible is a well-respected privacy-first analytics tool known for its clean dashboard and lightweight script. It's a great choice for websites that want simple traffic metrics without cookies or consent banners. But Plausible is intentionally limited to basic web analytics: no session replay, no funnel analysis, no user journey visualization, and no error tracking.

Rybbit shares Plausible's commitment to privacy and simplicity but goes significantly further. You get advanced analytics features including session replay, funnel analysis, user journey visualization with Sankey diagrams, Web Vitals monitoring, and error tracking. Beyond visit counts, you can see how people navigate your site, where they drop off, and what errors they encounter.

Both platforms are open source and self-hostable, and both run on ClickHouse; Rybbit's stack is TypeScript, Plausible's is Elixir. Rybbit uses events-based pricing that includes all interaction types, while Plausible charges by pageviews only. If you like Plausible's privacy-first approach but need deeper analytics to grow your product, Rybbit gives you that depth without giving up simplicity.

## Which is right for you?

### Choose Rybbit if...

- You need advanced features like session replay and funnels
- You want user journey visualization (Sankey diagrams)
- You need error tracking and Web Vitals monitoring
- You want events-based pricing instead of pageview-based
- You need organization support with team roles
- You want a daily rotating salt option for extra privacy

### Choose Plausible if...

- You want the simplest possible analytics dashboard
- You prefer a more established product with a longer track record
- You only need basic pageview and source tracking
- You want unlimited data retention on all plans
- You prefer Elixir/Phoenix over TypeScript for self-hosting

## Feature by feature

| Capability |  | Plausible |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Analytics Features** | | |
| Real-time analytics | | |
| Custom events | With attributes | Basic |
| Funnels | All plans | Business plan only |
| User journeys (Sankey) | | |
| Conversion goals | | |
| Saved segments | | |
| UTM tracking | | |
| Public dashboards | | |
| **Advanced Features** | | |
| Session Replay | | |
| User profiles | | |
| Web Vitals monitoring | | |
| Error tracking | | |
| Real-time globe view | | |
| Autocapture | | |
| **Privacy & Open Source** | | |
| Cookie-free tracking | | |
| No personal data collection | | |
| Daily rotating salt | | |
| Open source | | |
| Self-hostable | | |
| **Technical & Pricing** | | |
| Script size | 18KB | ~5KB |
| Bypasses ad blockers | | |
| API access | | |
| Starting price | $19/mo | $9/mo |

## Pricing comparison

### Rybbit

$19/mo

- 7-day free trial, card charged after the trial
- Session replay available on Pro plan
- Funnels, user journeys, and error tracking included
- Unlimited team members and websites

### Plausible

$9/mo

- 30-day free trial available
- Starts at 10k monthly pageviews
- All features included on every plan
- Self-hosted Community Edition is free

### Switching from Plausible to Rybbit

This is one migration where you don't start from zero: Rybbit has a built-in data importer for Plausible, so your historical traffic comes with you instead of living in an old dashboard forever.

1. Add the Rybbit tracking script alongside Plausible's. Both are lightweight, and running them in parallel for a while costs nothing but a few kilobytes.
2. Import your Plausible history with the [data importer](/content/docs/index.html), so year-over-year comparisons keep working from day one.
3. Recreate your goals as Rybbit goals and custom events; the setup is similarly simple.
4. Compare a few weeks of live numbers; they should track closely, since both tools are cookieless. Then remove the Plausible script.

### When Plausible is the better choice

If a traffic dashboard is genuinely all you want, Plausible is an excellent one, arguably the best at being exactly that. It has the longest track record in the category, an EU-owned and EU-hosted cloud, a famously tiny script (Plausible advertises it as 54× smaller than Google Analytics; Rybbit's is around 18KB), and a 30-day trial with no card required versus Rybbit's 7 days. Choosing it means deliberately not having session replay, funnels, or error tracking, and for plenty of content sites and blogs, that's the right call.