PostDeploy as a Plausible alternative
Plausible answers one question: what happened on the site. PostDeploy answers that and three more, is the site up, did the cron job run, what broke, for close to the same monthly price.
What Plausible sells
Plausible sells lightweight, privacy-first, cookieless web analytics with a simple dashboard and EU hosting, as an alternative to Google Analytics.
Side by side, before you commit
Their published free tier against what you get on PostDeploy, because that is where the decision starts.
| Plausible | PostDeploy | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | EUR 9 a month, 10,000 pageviews, one site | $5 a month after the trial |
| Sites or projects on the entry plan | 1 | 10 during the trial, 3 on Indie |
| Cookieless, no consent banner | Yes | Yes |
| Uptime and API monitors | Not offered | 20 on Indie |
| Cron job monitoring | Not offered | 20 on Indie |
| Error tracking | Not offered | 10,000 events a month free |
Why people look for a Plausible alternative
Analytics is one bill of several. Plausible's entry plan costs most of an PostDeploy Indie subscription and covers analytics for one site.
The entry plan includes one site. Each project you ship needs an upgrade or another plan.
You still need uptime checks, cron monitoring and error tracking somewhere else, each with its own login and invoice.
There is no free plan, only a 30-day trial.
What Plausible does well
Plausible is the deeper dedicated analytics product: funnels, ecommerce revenue attribution, Google Analytics import and saved segments, none of which PostDeploy has.
Where PostDeploy is different
Coverage per dollar. Indie is $5 a month and covers analytics plus uptime checks, cron heartbeats and error tracking for 3 projects. Plausible's entry plan covers analytics for one site.
A 30-day free trial, then a flat entry price. The trial runs at Pro size; Indie keeps 100,000 analytics events a month for $5.
One login for the whole project: the pageview graph, the uptime history and the error feed describe the same project.
Privacy without a banner, same as Plausible: no cookies, no raw IP stored, and a visitor hash whose salt rotates daily.
What switching gets you
Try PostDeploy if
- Your analytics bill covers one site and you ship more than one project.
- You are about to add an uptime monitor or a cron watchdog as a second subscription.
- You want one flat bill for the whole project instead of one per tool.
- You want visitor numbers without a trial clock while a side project finds its feet.
What moving actually costs
- 1 Swap the script tag: remove Plausible's snippet and add the PostDeploy analytics script per project.
- 2 Custom events need re-wiring per event name. Funnels and revenue attribution have no PostDeploy equivalent, so reporting built on them needs a rethink before the move.
- 3 Historical stats do not transfer. Keep the old dashboard available during the overlap if you need continuity.
- 4 Then point the rest of the project at the same login: uptime checks for the URLs and one curl line per scheduled job.
Questions
Is PostDeploy analytics cookieless like Plausible?
Yes. No cookies, no raw IP stored, no persistent visitor identifier. The visitor hash uses a salt that rotates daily and is not reversible across days.
How many analytics events does PostDeploy Indie include?
100,000 a month, alongside 20 uptime monitors, 20 cron jobs and 10,000 error events, with no credit card.
Does PostDeploy import my Plausible history?
No. Stats start from the day the script goes in. Run both during the overlap if you need continuity.
Other comparisons
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