Overview
The short version
Plausible: Plausible is a privacy-oriented web analytics product with a single-page dashboard, cookieless tracking and a small script. It focuses on traffic reporting, goals and a few conversion tools rather than product analytics. Pricing is a subscription that scales with monthly pageviews.
OnyxMetric: a paid web and product analytics platform with cookieless tracking, session replay on the Pro tier, funnels, retention, goals, events, Web Vitals, error tracking, feature flags and experiments, Google Search Console data and an MCP server for AI assistants. Pricing is per site per month: Base $99, Plus $199, Pro $299.
Plausible fits best when: Publishers and small sites that want a simple, readable traffic dashboard and little else.
Feature comparison
| Feature | OnyxMetric | Plausible |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Per site per month: Base $99, Plus $199, Pro $299. Yearly is 10x monthly. | Subscription scaled by monthly pageviews. |
| Cookieless by default | No cookies, no consent banner for analytics. | |
| Session replay | Included on the Pro tier. | |
| Funnels | ||
| Retention | ||
| Feature flags and experiments | ||
| Web Vitals | ||
| Error tracking |
Plausible details reflect public information at time of writing and may have changed. Confirm on the Plausible site. A dash means partial or optional. Rows with no verified data for a product are omitted.
Which one should you pick?
Choose Plausible if
- You want the simplest possible report and do not need replay or error tracking.
- Your needs stop at traffic sources, top pages, goals and basic funnels.
- Pageview-based pricing fits a small or low-traffic site.
Choose OnyxMetric if
- Session replay (Pro), retention, Web Vitals and error tracking in the same product.
- Feature flags and experiments for teams shipping product changes.
- An MCP server so AI assistants can query your analytics directly.
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