Statfox and Plausible solve the same problem from opposite directions: one is source-available software you can own outright for $49, the other is a subscription at $9–19/mo run entirely on someone else's servers.
Head to head
| 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 |
What Statfox does well
- < 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.
What Plausible still does better
There's a real reason Plausible costs what it does: a bigger team, broader integrations and dedicated support behind it. If that ecosystem is genuinely what you need, it's worth paying for.
Which one should you pick
If your workflow depends on Plausible's specific integrations or you'd rather not run anything yourself, stay put — that's a legitimate call. If you're comfortable owning the tool and want to stop paying $9–19/mo for a job your own hardware can do, Statfox pays for itself and then some: under 3 months of a Plausible Growth plan pays for Statfox — then analytics on every site you'll ever build is free.
Try Statfox — $49, once
Self-hosted, cookie-free web analytics — unlimited sites & traffic, one clean dashboard.