Litemetrics vs Plausible
Plausible and Litemetrics both ship lightweight, cookieless, open-source analytics. The difference is the audience. Plausible is a first-party analytics tool you use to measure your own site. Litemetrics is an embedded analytics SDK you ship inside your SaaS so each of your customers gets their own dashboard.
The one-line distinction
- Plausible: "I want to see how my marketing site is doing."
- Litemetrics: "I want my SaaS customers to see analytics inside my product."
Side by side
| Capability | Plausible | Litemetrics |
|---|---|---|
| Open source / MIT | AGPL | MIT |
| Self-hostable | Yes (community edition) | Yes (Docker / Railway / npm) |
| Cookie-free | Yes | Yes |
| Tracker bundle size | ~1 KB | ~3.5 KB |
| Embeddable React dashboard | No (iframe only) | Yes (native React components, themeable) |
| Multi-tenant out of the box | Per-site only | Per-customer site_id isolation built in |
| White-label theming | No | 10 presets + CSS variables |
| Database options | ClickHouse + Postgres (required together) | ClickHouse, Postgres, or MongoDB (pick one) |
| Hosted pricing | From $9/mo (10k events) | Self-host only (free, MIT) |
When Plausible is the right pick
If the goal is to replace Google Analytics for your own marketing site, blog, or docs, Plausible is excellent. The hosted product is polished, the cookieless story is mature, and the dashboard looks great out of the box. You do not need to build anything; you embed a script and read the dashboard.
When Litemetrics is the right pick
Litemetrics shines when analytics is part of your product, not just a tool you use internally. Specific signals:
- You build a SaaS where customers want to see analytics on their own data (an e-commerce builder, a link-in-bio tool, a CMS, a form builder).
- You want a dashboard that looks like part of your app, not a third-party iframe.
- You need multi-tenant isolation by default, with per-customer
siteIdrather than one site per Plausible account. - You want to ship analytics under your brand without building charts and tables yourself.
Migration notes
If you have been using Plausible to track your own product marketing, keep it; Litemetrics does not displace it. Most teams run both: Plausible for the marketing site, Litemetrics inside the product where the customer-facing dashboard lives.
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