Plausible charges $9–19/month, tiered by your traffic, forever. Google Analytics is "free" — paid for with your visitors' data and your consent banner. Statfox is a lightweight analytics server you run yourself: one <2KB script tag, one dashboard for every site you own, no cookies, no consent banner, no data leaving your server.
If you've searched for a Plausible alternative, Statfox is the pay-once option worth putting at the top of the list: Statfox is $49, one time, and covers the same core job Plausible charges $9–19/mo for.
What makes Statfox the pick for 2026
- < 2KB tracking snippet — One deferred script tag. Cookie-free and GDPR-friendly — no consent banner needed.
- Uniques without cookies — Daily-rotating salted hash of IP + user agent. Raw IPs are never stored; yesterday's salt is deleted so hashes can't be linked across days.
- Unlimited sites — Track every client site from one dashboard — no per-site pricing, no traffic tiers.
- The numbers that matter — Visitors, pageviews, bounce rate, visit duration — each compared to the previous period.
- Full breakdowns — Top pages, grouped referrers (Google, HN, Reddit, X…), countries, devices, browsers, OS, and UTM source/medium/campaign.
Statfox vs Plausible, at a glance
| Statfox | Plausible | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $49 once | $9–19/month, tiered by traffic |
| Cost over 3 years | $49 | ~$324–684 |
| Sites included | Unlimited | Tiered |
| Traffic limits | None — it's your hardware | 10k–100k pageviews/mo per tier |
| Cookies / consent banner | None needed | None needed |
| Data ownership | Your server, your SQLite file | Their cloud (or complex self-host) |
| Client share links | Yes, tokenized | Yes |
| Source code | MIT, yours | Open source (AGPL), hosted paid |
Under 3 months of a Plausible Growth plan pays for Statfox — then analytics on every site you'll ever build is free.
Common questions
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/web-analytics-mvp, always. $49 buys the packaged version, 1-click setup and updates.
Is it really GDPR-friendly without a banner?
Yes — no cookies, no localStorage, no fingerprinting. Uniqueness is a daily-rotating salted hash computed in memory; raw IPs are never written to disk and old salts are deleted, so a visitor hash is meaningless after 24 hours.
Do I need a server?
For public sites, yes — the collect endpoint must be reachable from your visitors' browsers, so budget a $5 VPS. That still costs less per year than most Plausible tiers, and it can host half this suite at once.
The bottom line
Statfox won't out-feature Plausible on every axis — no subscription tool with a bigger team and a bigger roadmap loses on everything. But for the core job, $49 once against $9–19/mo forever is a trade most people should at least look at. Statfox is part of OneTimeSuite, a catalog of pay-once apps that replace subscription SaaS.
Try Statfox — $49, once
Self-hosted, cookie-free web analytics — unlimited sites & traffic, one clean dashboard.