Two privacy-first tools. One keeps your data in your database.
Plausible is a respected, cookieless analytics tool, and on the basics the two are close: no cookies, no consent banner, exact counts. The difference is where your data lives and how far the privacy line is drawn.
Plausible vs analyticshq
Point for point.
Where analyticshq goes further.
Plausible does plenty analyticshq does not: funnels, Search Console, a Looker connector, spike alerts. If those are what you need, it is an excellent choice. Here is where analyticshq leads instead.
Your data, in your own database
Plausible is a great cookieless tool, but on Plausible Cloud your analytics live on their servers. analyticshq writes every event to a PostgreSQL table you own and can query directly. No separate store to trust.
You decide how precise
Plausible resolves visitor location to city level, for everyone. analyticshq resolves country by default and lets a site owner opt in to state and province, or city, if they need it: a decision you make per site and one that stays off until you make it. Cities with only a handful of visitors are reported together as Other.
Part of your stack, not another service
analyticshq runs inside the Stacks toolchain, on the same Postgres, queue, and deploy you already operate. There is no extra analytics service to run alongside your app.