Plausible Analytics
Plausible Analytics is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Analytics category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in Elixir. It is a self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics. It has 29,664 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 29,664
- Forks
- 1,921
- Open issues
- 27
- Commits, last 12 months
- 617
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v3.2.1May 15, 2026
- Created
- Dec 4, 2018
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 617 commits in 12 months.
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 617 |
| Latest release | v3.2.1 (May 15, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 3 |
| Releases, all time | 44 |
| Open issues | 27 |
| Open pull requests | 30 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Dec 4, 2018 |
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About Plausible Analytics
Simple, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/plausible/analytics.
Topics
- analytics
- privacy
- elixir
- phoenix
- postgresql
- tailwindcss
- clickhouse
- plausible-analytics
- google-analytics
- web-analytics
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Is Plausible Analytics free and open source?
Yes. Plausible Analytics is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Plausible Analytics with Docker?
Plausible Analytics does not list an official Docker image. It installs natively (Elixir), so follow the install steps in its README or look for a community-maintained container.
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Is Plausible Analytics actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Plausible Analytics was on Oct 26, 2026 with 617 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v3.2.1, published May 15, 2026. It had 27 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.