Quick answer
Yes — Statfox is a one-time-purchase alternative to Plausible. It costs $129 once, while Plausible runs $9–19/mo — about $108 per year, every year. Self-hosted, cookie-free web analytics — unlimited sites & traffic, one clean dashboard. It is for people who want the job done on their own hardware without a renewal date — not for teams that live inside Plausible's ecosystem.
The verdict
Switch to Statfox if you are an individual or small team paying Plausible $9–19/mo for work your own machine can do. Under 7 months of a Plausible Growth plan pays for Statfox — then analytics on every site you'll ever build is free.
Stay with Plausible if your workflow depends on its integrations, you need enterprise features (SSO, admin controls, SLAs), or your team is large enough that per-seat collaboration tooling is worth the bill. Statfox does not try to replicate those.
Head to head
| Statfox | Plausible | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $129 once | $9–19/month, tiered by traffic |
| Cost over 3 years | $129 | ~$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 |
| 5-year cost | $129 | $540 |
Where Plausible still wins
- Ecosystem and integrations. Established tools accumulate years of third-party integrations, templates and add-ons. If your workflow is wired into Plausible's ecosystem, switching means rebuilding that plumbing — a real cost.
- Team and enterprise features. Shared workspaces, granular permissions, SSO, audit logs and a vendor to call when something breaks — that is what the higher subscription tiers actually buy, and a pay-once app does not come with it.
- Familiarity and hiring. Plausible is the name people already know. Onboarding a team onto a tool nobody has used before takes time the subscription never charges for.
Where Statfox wins
- Price, permanently. $129 once versus $108/yr for as long as you use it. There is no renewal, no seat count and no tier gate.
- < 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 math
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.
Common 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.
Try Statfox — $129, one time
Or get Statfox plus every other app in the suite: the OneTimeSuite bundle is currently $97, one time.