Thanks for the feedback! Could you please share what you mean by bait and switch?
We're fully open source, we have a completely free as in beer self-hosted solution and we've only done two price changes since we announced the original prices in May 2019 (and none of these have affected any existing subscribers as they're kept on prices they signed up with).
Price reviews are really necessary for us to do as we're self funded and we've grown our product, our infrastructure and our team a lot since the original prices so providing our service at May 2019 prices would not be sustainable today.
Thanks for your feedback! We've only had 3 different prices since May 2019 when we launched and you can see them on GitHub as the code goes there:
2019: $6/month for up to 10k pageviews/month with a 33% discount on annual billing
2021: $6/month for up to 10k pageviews/month with a 2 months for free discount on annual billing
2022: $9/month for up to 10k pageviews/month with a 2 months for free discount on annual billing
Any price change doesn't affect active subscribers. They are grandfathered to the plan they signed up with.
We're solely funded by the fees our subscribers pay us so we regularly review our prices as we improve the infrastructure, product and grow the team to keep it all priced sustainably.
exactly! our first "viral" moment was on HN too and we only got a few direct signups that day but we would never have made it to this point without being on the top of HN that time
thanks for sharing! there's this saying in marketing that you should ignore anyone who's not much bigger than you so that's how we think about it. we focus on the tools with a large audience and ignore the rest as few people in our target audience would have heard about them. people tell us all the time how they didn't even know alternatives to GA existed before they found us and that tells a lot about the state of the market for millions of sites that use GA
good point, thanks! we had to shorten the top menu on mobile devices to fit all the important stuff so you only see "X filters" rather than the full filter as on the desktop
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year.
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year.
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year.
For our self-hosted version, you can install it with any cloud provider and in any country you wish. Even in the USA.
All site data plausible.io stores on behalf of the customers is hosted in Germany on servers owned by Hetzner, a European-owned company. Previously it was hosted by Digital Ocean in Germany but the move to Hetzner was made last year.
For our self-hosted version, you can install it with any cloud provider and in any country you wish. Even in the USA. That's the testing one we had on our site as we're testing the latest release of our self-hosted version on our own website. This has nothing to do with what our customers place on their sites.
We're fully open source, we have a completely free as in beer self-hosted solution and we've only done two price changes since we announced the original prices in May 2019 (and none of these have affected any existing subscribers as they're kept on prices they signed up with).
Price reviews are really necessary for us to do as we're self funded and we've grown our product, our infrastructure and our team a lot since the original prices so providing our service at May 2019 prices would not be sustainable today.