Plausible Analytics alternative: Nordva Launch
Plausible is lightweight web analytics without cookies: sources, pages, locations, devices, goals and custom events, with ecommerce revenue goals, funnels and a Stats API on its Business plan. Revenue is sent from your own site as a custom event with an amount; there is no Stripe connection. This page sets it next to Nordva Launch on the things a developer checks first: price, API, MCP support and scope. Vendor facts were read from plausible.io on 2026-09-24; prices change, so verify before deciding.
| Plausible Analytics | Nordva Launch | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Plausible is lightweight web analytics without cookies: sources, pages, locations, devices, goals and custom events, with ecommerce revenue goals, funnels and a Stats API on its Business plan. Revenue is sent from your own site as a custom event with an amount; there is no Stripe connection. | One API and MCP server for changelog, waitlist, feedback triage, in-app notifications, and read-only Stripe revenue, contacts and attribution. |
| Free tier | No: No free plan on the pricing section. '30-day free trial. No credit card required.' The self-hosted Community Edition is free (AGPLv3) but leaves out funnels, user journeys, ecommerce revenue goals, SSO and the Sites API. | Yes: 2 projects, each with 100 waitlist signups and 25 changelog entries; web analytics up to 10,000 events a month and a Stripe connection; API and MCP included; no card |
| Entry price | $9/month billed monthly for up to 10k monthly pageviews; yearly billing is marked '2 months free' (Starter: one site, 3 years of data retention, goals and custom events, email and Slack reports, Google Analytics import. Ecommerce revenue attribution, funnels and the Stats API start on Business ($19/month at 10k pageviews)). Three self-serve plans priced by monthly pageviews. At 10k: Starter $9, Growth $14 (up to 3 sites and 3 team members), Business $19 (up to 10 sites, 5 years of retention, custom properties, Stats API, ecommerce revenue attribution, funnels). At 100k: $19, $29, $39. At 1M: $69, $104, $139. At 10M: $169, $254, $339. Above 10M and Enterprise: custom. | $19/month (Indie), about 20% off annually |
| Public API | Yes: The Stats API is a Business plan feature (600 requests an hour); the Sites API is on Enterprise. Events can also be sent through the Events API. | Yes: REST, keys scoped to one project (1 to 3 per project by plan), idempotent writes |
| MCP server | No: no MCP server was mentioned on the home page, the pricing section or the Stats API docs | Yes: mcp.nordva.dev, one server for every primitive, on every plan including Free. Works with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code and Windsurf |
| Covers | Changelog: no · Waitlist: no · Feedback: no · In-app notifications: no · Revenue metrics: no · Contacts: no · Attribution: yes | Changelog: yes · Waitlist: yes · Feedback: yes · In-app notifications: yes · Revenue metrics: yes · Contacts: yes · Attribution: yes |
What Plausible Analytics offers
- No cookies and 'no persistent identifiers', so no consent banner is needed; the trade is that a returning visitor is not recognised across days
- Revenue comes from your site: a custom event carrying an amount and currency, filterable by referral source, campaign, entry page, country or device (Business plan)
- No native Stripe connection in the revenue docs; Stripe, PayPal and Paddle are excluded from referral sources
- Open source; the self-hosted Community Edition is free under AGPLv3 without funnels or ecommerce revenue goals
- Made and hosted in the EU
Based in the EU (the site says 'Made and hosted in the EU').
Where Nordva Launch differs
Plausible counts visits without cookies and, on its Business plan, adds up revenue that your own site reports as an event, split by source or campaign. Nordva Launch reads your Stripe account instead (read-only, on every plan including Free) and traces each paying customer to a first visit through the visitor id, identify() or the waitlist email, so revenue comes from Stripe's own records rather than from an event your checkout has to send. Launch keeps raw analytics events for 90 days; Plausible keeps years.
Stay on Plausible Analytics if
You want cookieless analytics with years of history, an EU host or a self-hosted open-source option, and your checkout can send the revenue event itself.
Try the overlap on the free plan.
No card. One key. The MCP server is included on every plan.