Plausible vs ViewStats Comparison 2026
Both cover analytics. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Privacy-first analytics without cookies
YouTube analytics from MrBeast's own team
At a glance
- Plausible starts cheaper, at $9.
- Only ViewStats has a free tier.
Side by side
Plausible | ViewStats | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $9 | From $49.99 |
| Pricing model (they differ) | Free trial, then paid | Free plan, paid tiers |
| Free tier (they differ) | No | Yes |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Not stated |
| Free trial | 30 days | Not stated |
| API | Yes | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
| Their cut | None | Not stated |
| Runs on | Web |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Plausible
Privacy-first analytics without cookies
Plausible answers what a Google Analytics dashboard takes four clicks to answer, on one page, without cookies or a consent banner. The script is a fraction of the size, which shows up in a page speed score. There are no user-level reports at all, so anybody who needs to follow one visitor around is in the wrong tool.
Our note
Not running a consent banner is a saving the price does not show. No cookies means no banner and no consent records to keep, and on a small site that is worth more than the gap between $9 a month and free analytics.
ViewStats
YouTube analytics from MrBeast's own team
ViewStats came out of MrBeast's own team and sells the tooling they built to answer one question: which videos are doing better than they should be. Outlier detection is the headline feature, alongside thumbnail and title comparison against your niche. There is a free site and a browser extension that overlays numbers while you watch. Pro is where the competitor tracking and the idea tools sit.
Our note
Try the extension before paying for anything, because it is free and it answers the question most people arrive with. vidIQ and TubeBuddy cover similar ground more cheaply; what ViewStats has that they do not is the outlier framing, and whether that is worth $50 a month depends on how often you publish.
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