Plausible
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Min RAM
- ~2 GB
Supermetry and Plausible
A dated look at Plausible and Supermetry, built from one feature matrix. Both lists below come from it, including the parts where Plausible is ahead.
What you run
Supermetry
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- RAM
- ~90 MB idle, target below 50 MB
Plausible figures are the minimums in the matrix. Supermetry's is idle usage from the core feature notes, still being measured, so it is not a like-for-like benchmark.
Where each one is ahead
Plausible is ahead
- Script under 1 KB gzip
- SSO / OIDC Plausible: (enterprise) Supermetry: Deferred
Supermetry is ahead
- Sessions explorer and session timeline
- Events and properties explorer
- Responsive polished dashboard controls and hierarchy Not verified for Plausible
- Annotations on the chart
- Retention (cohort) report
- Web Vitals
- Session replay
- Heatmaps
- User profiles and identify
- Saved cohorts and power users
- Custom dashboards Not verified for Plausible
- "View full report" dialog for breakdown cards Not verified for Plausible
- Short links and tracking pixels Not verified for Plausible
- Pixel analytics projects and open GitHub counters Not verified for Plausible
- Install recipes with copy buttons and a verify check Not verified for Plausible
- Consent mode, manual pageviews, beforeSend hook
- Interface languages Not verified for Plausible
- Audit log Not verified for Plausible
- Notification history, retries and editable message templates Not verified for Plausible
- Webhooks, Slack, Discord
- API: sessions, raw events, properties, suggestions
- MCP server for AI assistants Not verified for Plausible
- No ClickHouse
- Single binary
- Data retention / purge Not verified for Plausible
- Automatic rollup backfill after upgrades
- Release binaries, systemd unit, install docs
- Safe installer dry-run and compatibility checks Not verified for Plausible
- Backup and restore command
- Fast local, full CI, and API-session end-to-end test lanes Not verified for Plausible
Still open on the Supermetry side: AI insights; Mobile SDKs. See the roadmap.
Both list 51 of the same features. Question marks mean we could not verify the claim from public documentation.
Side by side
| Feature | Plausible | Supermetry |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics | ||
| Visitors, pageviews, bounce rate, visit duration | Listed | Listed |
| Realtime view | Listed | Listed(live feed, per-minute chart) |
| Compare with the previous period | Listed | Listed(previous period, previous year) |
| Periods incl. 28d, 91d, 6mo | Listed | Listed |
| Time on page and exit rate | Listed | Listed |
| Filters on any dimension | Listed | Listed(Add-filter picker with value suggestions) |
| Sessions explorer and session timeline | Not listed | Listed |
| Events and properties explorer | Not listed | Listed |
| Page, source, country, browser, OS and device breakdowns | Listed | Listed |
| UTM breakdowns | Listed | Listed(raw utm_source stored separately from the blended source) |
| Entry and exit pages | Listed | Listed |
| Region and city | Listed | Listed(Location breakdowns plus the dashboard Where card) |
| Weekday × local-hour traffic grid | Listed | Listed(site-timezone visitors and pageviews within raw retention) |
| Dashboard geography and weekly rhythm cards | Listed | Listed(linked map/list, country details, locale-aware 168-cell rhythm) |
| Cross-organization sites overview with recent traffic | Listed | Listed(cards/table, search, sorting, periods, live and install status) |
| Responsive polished dashboard controls and hierarchy | Not verified | Listed(styled range picker, mobile filter sheet, accessible empty states) |
| Custom events and props | Listed | Listed |
| Goals | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Listed(not in CE) | Listed |
| Revenue goals | Listed(paid) | Listed |
| Saved segments | Listed | Listed |
| Annotations on the chart | Not listed | Listed |
| Retention (cohort) report | Not listed | Listed(cross-day with profiles; same-day for anonymous) |
| User journeys / path flow | Listed(paid) | Listed |
| Web Vitals | Not listed | Listed(full script: LCP, CLS, INP, FCP, TTFB) |
| Session replay | Not listed | Listed(responsive contain-fit player and independent detail scrolling) |
| Heatmaps | Not listed | Listed(aggregated clicks + scroll map, opt-in) |
| User profiles and identify | Not listed | Listed(opt-in per site) |
| Saved cohorts and power users | Not listed | Listed(identified mode with profiles; condition builder, size and sample on demand, cohort as dashboard filter, top profiles by sessions or events) |
| Revenue report: orders, average order value, revenue per visitor, repeat purchases, breakdowns and attribution | Listed(paid) | Listed(by country, region, source, campaign, page or product; first-click, last-click or event attribution with a 1 to 90 day lookback; customers table in identified mode; CSV) |
| Search Console queries and pages | Listed | Listed(Google OAuth, sealed tokens, daily sync, disconnect deletes tokens and data; needs SUPERMETRY_GSC_CLIENT_ID and SUPERMETRY_GSC_CLIENT_SECRET) |
| Custom dashboards | Not verified | Listed(saved per-site layouts of nine widget kinds, switcher, editor with reorder and resize, per-dashboard period and filters, default dashboard) |
| "View full report" dialog for breakdown cards | Not verified | Listed(search, sort, keyboard operable; export to CSV or JSON with column choice) |
| Short links and tracking pixels | Not verified | Listed(default UTM tags, expiry, click limits, QR code, per-link stats) |
| Pixel analytics projects and open GitHub counters | Not verified | Listed(aggregate-only GIF pixels, branded SVG badges, snippets and a dedicated dashboard; open counters are opt-in) |
| AI insights | Not listed | In progressDeferred |
| Tracking | ||
| Script under 1 KB gzip | Listed | Partly |
| No cookies | Listed | Listed |
| SPA pageviews | Listed | Listed |
| Scroll depth and engagement time | Listed | Listed |
| Automatic outbound-link, file-download and 404 tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Click tracking from HTML attributes | Listed | Listed(data-supermetry-event) |
| Server-side events API, with examples | Listed | Listed |
| Bot filtering; IP, path and country exclusion | Listed | Listed |
| Per-site tracker settings (served script) | Listed | Listed(outbound, downloads, forms, 404, hash routing, clicks, Web Vitals, heatmaps) |
| Install recipes with copy buttons and a verify check | Not verified | Listed(HTML, React, Next.js, Vue, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Astro, Remix, Angular, WordPress, Shopify, Tag Manager, curl, Node.js, Python, Go) |
| Install status from accepted-event last seen | Listed | Listed(Waiting, Receiving within 24h, Quiet with last seen) |
| Hash-based routing, form submissions | Listed | Listed(per-site setting) |
| Do Not Track / GPC, visitor opt-out | Listed(opt-out) | Listed(respected by default; supermetry.optOut()) |
| Consent mode, manual pageviews, beforeSend hook | Not listed | Listed |
| npm tracker package | Listed | Listed |
| Mobile SDKs | Not listed | In progressDeferred |
| Team, sharing and API | ||
| Teams / orgs with roles | Listed | Listed |
| Per-site access | Listed | Listed |
| Two-factor auth (TOTP) | Listed | Listed |
| Instance admin console and a two-factor policy | Listed(enterprise) | Listed(users, organizations, sites, settings and security; policy for nobody, instance admins, owners and admins, or everyone with a grace period and audited exemptions) |
| Interface languages | Not verified | Listed(English, plus machine-assisted Spanish and German; pseudo-locale for layout tests; some text is not translated yet) |
| Account self-service: edit name, change email or password, delete account | Listed | Listed |
| Invite-only signup by default | Listed(`DISABLE_REGISTRATION`) | Listed(SUPERMETRY_SIGNUP=open to allow) |
| Audit log | Not verified | Listed |
| Configurable public share links (sections, locked scope, date, theme, opt-in embeds) | Listed | Listed |
| Notification history, retries and editable message templates | Not verified | Listed |
| Email reports | Listed | Listed |
| Alerts: traffic spike or drop, goal hit | Listed(email, traffic spike) | Listed |
| Webhooks, Slack, Discord | Not listed | Listed |
| CSV export | Listed | Listed(every report, streamed) |
| Full export; import from Plausible, Umami, GA4, Mixpanel, Amplitude | Listed | Listed(file imports with dry-run preview, per-day de-duplication and undo; identifiers and IPs are never stored) |
| Stats API: summary | Listed | Listed |
| Stats API: timeseries, breakdowns, realtime | Listed | Listed |
| API: sessions, raw events, properties, suggestions | Not listed | Listed |
| API key management through the API, scoped keys | Listed(scopes) | Listed(keys:manage, no escalation) |
| API reference in the app + typed client | Listed(docs) | Listed |
| Sites / goals / funnels API | Listed(not in CE) | Listed |
| MCP server for AI assistants | Not verified | Listed |
| SSO / OIDC | Listed(enterprise) | In progressDeferred |
| Self-hosting | ||
| No ClickHouse | Not listed | Listed |
| Single binary | Not listed | Listed |
| Database | PG + ClickHouse | PG only |
| Minimum RAM | Listed(~2 GB) | In progress |
| Protected metrics endpoint | Listed | Listed(SUPERMETRY_METRICS_TOKEN or localhost only) |
| Data retention / purge | Not verified | Listed(per site, partition drop) |
| Automatic rollup backfill after upgrades | Not listed | Listed(progress on Data health) |
| Docker image | Listed | Listed |
| Release binaries, systemd unit, install docs | Not listed | Listed |
| Safe installer dry-run and compatibility checks | Not verified | Listed(supermetry install --dry-run, PostgreSQL 14+) |
| Backup and restore command | Not listed | Listed(supermetry backup, supermetry restore) |
| Fast local, full CI, and API-session end-to-end test lanes | Not verified | Listed |
| License | Listed(AGPL-3.0) | Listed(Apache-2.0) |
Source: Supermetry's own feature matrix, last updated 2026-10-14, from public documentation. Plausible may have changed since; check plausible.io and tell us about corrections.
Moving to Supermetry
Supermetry imports daily aggregates from Plausible exports. Raw events are not imported. Follow the Plausible guide or read the migration overview.
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