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Dataflare vs Plausible
Plausible is simple, privacy-friendly web analytics, hosted in the EU. Dataflare is open-source analytics that runs in your own Cloudflare account.
The short answer
Plausible is a lovely, focused product: one page of web stats, hosted in the EU, with nothing to run. Choose Dataflare if you've outgrown web stats and need product analytics (funnels, retention, people), session replay or experiments, or if you'd rather keep the data in your own Cloudflare account than pay a subscription.
Side by side
| Feature | Dataflare | Plausible |
|---|---|---|
| Where your data lives | Your own Cloudflare account (D1 and R2) | Plausible Cloud (EU), or your own servers (Community Edition) |
| Source code | Open source, MIT | Open source (AGPL-3.0, Community Edition) |
| What you pay | Your Cloudflare bill: $0 on Workers Free for small sites, $5/month Workers Paid above that | From $9/month for 10k monthly pageviews; 30-day free trial |
| Cookieless mode | Yes | Yes, always |
| Web analytics | Yes, with Core Web Vitals and errors | Yes |
| Funnels and retention | Yes: trends, funnels, retention, cohorts | Funnels on Business plans and above |
| Session replay | Yes, with a text transcript for agents | No |
| Feature flags and A/B tests | Yes: flags in your Worker, Bayesian experiment results | No |
| Raw SQL on your events | Yes, read-only SQL in the dashboard, CLI and MCP | No (Stats API) |
Checked November 2026. Sources: Plausible pricing, Plausible Community Edition. Spotted something out of date? Open an issue.
Choose Plausible if you want
- Nothing to deploy or maintain on the hosted plans.
- A single, very simple dashboard.
- EU-owned infrastructure, a mature product and a long track record.
Choose Dataflare if you want
- Product analytics on any event: trends, funnels, retention, cohorts and people.
- Session replay, feature flags and A/B tests.
- No subscription: you pay Cloudflare's list prices, often $0.
- Raw SQL on every event, and an MCP server so your agent can query it.
Moving from Plausible to Dataflare
- Run
npx dataflare-cli initand add the script tag alongside Plausible. plausible("Signup", { props: { plan } })becomesglass.capture("signup_completed", { plan }).- Use cookieless mode (
data-persistence="cookieless") if you want the same no-cookie behaviour as Plausible.