# Plausible

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/plausible-analytics/

14 people recommended Plausible in Hacker News comments, 1 had mixed feelings and 7 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 9 of 12 months, in 14 threads. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** Cookie-free, privacy-focused web analytics with clean dashboards that need no cookie banner. Main caveat: it covers only web analytics, lacks mobile SDKs, and can be a bit expensive.

Summary written by Claude from 25 comments. It was written before the November 2026 recount, and 21 of those comments still count.

## Why people recommend it

- Cookie-free, no consent banner needed (3 comments in the sample): "Analytics can be done without banner requiring tracking, e.g. https://plausible.io/" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46667878)) "great, mission-driven, open-soutce non-profit providing cookie-free web analytics" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093993)) "plausible can be configured to require 0 consent" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49063505))
- Open source, works reliably (2 comments in the sample): "it works great and is opensource" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46399053)) "still works flawlessly till date" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46975276))

## What people warn about

- Heavy resources, many containers (3 comments in the sample): "Things like plausible or umami (analytics) require at least 2 gigs of ram" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364964)) "clickhouse requires like 4 different containers and idles using 4+ GB" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48968828)) "Plausible is a total mess of heavy-idling containers and ClickHouse" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135687))

## Other product analytics platforms people recommend

- [PostHog](https://hackerapproved.com/p/posthog/): 34 recommend, 7 mixed, 81 criticize
- [Umami](https://hackerapproved.com/p/umami/): 14 recommend, 1 mixed, 4 criticize
- [Matomo](https://hackerapproved.com/p/matomo/): 5 recommend, 2 mixed, 4 criticize

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://plausible.io/)

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Plausible", https://hackerapproved.com/p/plausible-analytics/ (14 recommend, 1 mixed, 7 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.