Plausible, in its own terms
Plausible Community Edition is released under the AGPLv3 and is free to self-host, with a paid managed cloud alongside it. It reports aggregate statistics rather than individual users, sets no cookies, and needs no consent banner. The community edition receives updates roughly twice a year and does not include the premium features of the cloud product, such as funnels and ecommerce tracking.
Checked against plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics in august 2026. Products change; verify anything you are deciding on.
Where they actually differ
| Falorb | Plausible | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence | MIT | AGPLv3 (Community Edition) |
| Self-hosting | The primary path, and free | Free, alongside a paid cloud |
| Unit of analysis | The person, across every property | Aggregate statistics per site |
| Cookies | None required; cookieless mode available | None |
| Funnels | Included when self-hosted | A premium cloud feature |
| Portfolio view | Every property on the first screen | One site at a time |
| Hosted option | Managed hosting on request | Plausible Cloud, published pricing |
Which one you should actually use
- You run one site, or a handful you are happy to look at separately.
- You actively do not want person-level data in your analytics, as a policy rather than a limitation.
- You want a hosted plan with published pricing and human support, today.
- You want the most mature, most widely deployed option in this category.
- You run several sites and want one visitor count across all of them.
- You need to answer which of your products a particular person has used.
- You want funnels, retention and revenue attribution without a paid tier.
- You want an assistant to query your analytics directly over MCP.
The Falorb side, in the real interface
vs Plausible: the usual questions
Is Falorb a drop-in replacement for Plausible?
No, and it is not trying to be. Plausible is deliberately aggregate-only, which is a design principle rather than a missing feature. Falorb keeps a person-level record, which is more data about your visitors, not less. If aggregate-only is why you chose Plausible, that reason still holds.
Which licence matters more?
Falorb is MIT and Plausible Community Edition is AGPLv3. Both let you self-host freely. The difference shows up if you modify the code and offer it to others over a network: the AGPL requires you to publish those changes, MIT does not.
Still deciding?
The fastest way to decide is to run it
Clone the repository, bring the stack up with Docker Compose and paste one script tag. Ten minutes, and no account anywhere.