NvisionData vs Plausible
Plausible Analytics — cookieless dashboard for content sites. Plausible site
Plausible's product is excellent at one thing: a single dashboard that loads in 200ms, that you can put on a TV, that survives ad-blockers reasonably well, and that no privacy lawyer will complain about. Cookieless by design, EU-hosted, open source, ~1KB script. For a marketing site or a blog, it is the right answer.
It is a counter, not an analytics platform. No funnel beyond the basic, no cohort analysis, no event properties beyond a flat key:value, no warehouse export at low tiers, no activation to ad platforms, no SDKs for mobile, no experiments. It deliberately stops where the interesting product questions begin.
| Dimension | NvisionData | Plausible |
|---|---|---|
| Use case | Web + mobile + activation + experiments | Web dashboard only |
| Cookieless | Yes, with stitching | Yes, no stitching across sessions/devices |
| Funnels | Multi-step with attribution model selection | Goal-based, single step |
| Cohort / retention | Yes, via warehouse | Not in product |
| Custom events | Unbounded properties + tracking-plan governance | Goal name + flat props (limited) |
| Mobile SDKs | Swift + Kotlin with offline buffer | None (web-only) |
| Warehouse export | BYO CH/BQ/Snowflake, raw rows | CSV download / Stats API only |
| Ad-platform activation | 6 connectors with consent + DSAR | None |
| Experiments / A/B | Built-in, pure-TS stats (z-test, χ², Wilson CI) | None |
| Pricing entry | Free 100k/mo → $29 Pro | $9 → $19 → tiered by pageviews |
You run a content site, a docs portal, or a marketing page. You want to know pageviews, top sources, top pages, and conversion to a goal. You do not have a product team, you do not run paid acquisition at scale, and you genuinely want the dashboard to be one tab a non-technical stakeholder can read. Plausible nails this. Do not pay us to be a counter when their counter is better designed than ours; come back when "what is the activation rate of users who saw feature X in week 2 of cohort Y" becomes a real question.
We ship under FSL-1.1-ALv2, which auto-converts to Apache-2.0 after 2 years per release (Sentry's license). You can self-host today for $999/mo with a Helm chart; the source is readable. Plausible's AGPL is more permissive on day one — fair point — but the practical difference for a buyer is small.
For pageviews, yes. The price flip happens the moment you need a second product surface (mobile, activation, experiments). At that point Plausible says "use a different tool" and you are paying two vendors anyway.
True; ours is ~12KB gzipped because it carries the 4-bit consent vector + retry queue + offline buffer. If your site is purely a content site, that delta matters. If you are tracking checkout flows on an e-commerce app where the rest of the page is 4MB of React, it does not.
Same tracking plan, your warehouse, consent-gated activation.