The price anchor
| Statfox | Plausible | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $0 — no subscription | $9–19/mo |
| Annual | $0 after purchase | $108 |
| 5-year total | $129 | $540 |
| 10-year total | $129 | $1,080 |
Subscription figures from the vendor's published pricing ($9–19/mo, ~$108/yr); the Statfox column is the full price, paid once.
Break-even analysis
Under 7 months of a Plausible Growth plan pays for Statfox — then analytics on every site you'll ever build is free.
- After 1 year: Statfox has cost you $129 total — Plausible has cost $108.
- After 3 years: Statfox is still $129 — the subscription is at $324.
- After 5 years: Statfox is still $129 — the subscription is at $540.
What you get for $129 once
- < 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.
- No renewal, ever. The license does not expire and there is no per-seat meter — $129 is the whole price.
Pricing questions
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/web-analytics-mvp, always. $129 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.
What doesn't it do vs GA4?
Honestly: no funnels, no e-commerce revenue attribution, no Google Ads integration, no BigQuery export. Statfox covers the numbers most site owners actually check — traffic, sources, pages, countries, UTMs, custom events. If you live in GA4's advertising reports, keep GA4.
Statfox — $129, one time
Or get Statfox plus every other app in the suite: the OneTimeSuite bundle is currently $97, one time.