Plausible costs $9–19/mo — and unlike a tool you buy once, that bill never stops. Over three years that's roughly $324 for software doing a job your own hardware could just as easily do.
Where the subscription actually goes
$9–19/month, tiered by traffic is the sticker price. It compounds: cancel and you typically lose access to your own history, and most plans ratchet the price up as you add usage, seats or storage — the bill rarely stays flat for long.
Statfox: the pay-once alternative
Statfox does the same core job for $49, once. Self-hosted, cookie-free web analytics — unlimited sites & traffic, one clean dashboard.
| 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.
Is the subscription ever still worth it?
If you need Plausible's specific ecosystem, integrations or managed infrastructure and that's genuinely load-bearing for you, the subscription earns its keep — that's a real trade-off, not a trick. Statfox is for everyone else: people paying every month for a job that runs fine on hardware they already own.
Try Statfox — $49, once
Self-hosted, cookie-free web analytics — unlimited sites & traffic, one clean dashboard.