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Temps vs Plausible

First-party analytics, plus the rest of the platform.

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Monthly cost at a glance

Temps
Plausible
Entry
$0 self-hosted
$9/mo
Growth
$0
$14/mo
Business
$0
$19/mo
Free tier
Unlimited self-hosted
None
Infrastructure
Free on your own VPS
$0 hosted,
$curl -fsSL https://temps.sh/deploy.sh | bash

The short answer

Is Temps better than Plausible? It depends on what you need. Here is what each one is, and what Plausible has that Temps doesn't.

What they share
Both keep analytics first-party with no third-party trackers. Plausible is cookieless (it hashes the IP with a daily salt), while Temps sets two first-party cookies (_temps_visitor_id and _temps_sid), so consent requirements can differ.
Where they diverge
Plausible is a focused web analytics product at $9/month for 10K pageviews and $19/month for 100K, with no free tier beyond a 30-day trial. Temps self-hosts free with unlimited sites and adds error tracking, session replay and uptime monitoring, which Plausible does not do.
What Plausible has that Temps doesn't
A more mature and more polished analytics product, and a script of about 1.3KB gzipped — Temps' is larger because it also carries replay and error capture.

Scored, dimension by dimension

  • Cookies and consent

    Plausible

    Temps

    Two first-party cookies

    Plausible

    Cookieless (daily-salted IP hash)

  • Analytics depth and polish

    Plausible

    Temps

    Solid, younger product

    Plausible

    Focused, mature, best-in-class

  • Tracking script size

    Plausible

    Temps

    Larger — replay and errors included

    Plausible

    About 1.3KB gzipped

  • Cost

    Temps

    Temps

    $0 self-hosted, unlimited sites

    Plausible

    $9–19/mo by pageviews and sites

  • Errors, replay and uptime

    Temps

    Temps

    Included

    Plausible

    Not offered — separate vendors

Why teams switch from Plausible

Plausible does one thing extremely well: lightweight, cookieless web analytics with a script of about 1.3KB gzipped. Temps' analytics are not more sophisticated, and unlike Plausible they set two first-party cookies. The difference is that they come with deployments, session replay, error tracking and uptime monitoring rather than as a $9–19/month subscription of their own.

No pageview tiers
Plausible's hosted pricing is banded by monthly pageviews, starting at $9/month for 10,000. Self-hosted Temps analytics are not metered, so traffic growth does not move you up a plan.
Session replay included
Plausible is deliberately analytics-only and does not offer session replay. Temps includes rrweb-based replay, which is the usual second subscription beside a privacy-first analytics tool.
Different routes to the same privacy stance
Plausible is genuinely cookieless — it identifies visitors by hashing the IP, which is the stronger position and the reason it needs no consent banner. Temps' proxy sets two first-party HttpOnly cookies (_temps_visitor_id and _temps_sid) and its SDK uses localStorage, so it is first-party and self-hosted but not cookieless; check your own consent obligations rather than assuming they carry over. What Temps does add is that the data never leaves your infrastructure.
One binary for the whole stack
Deployments, analytics, session replay, error tracking and uptime monitoring in a single Rust binary, with managed Postgres on the same server, rather than an analytics service you run beside everything else.

Feature comparison

What each platform includes out of the box, and what needs a separate subscription.

  • Cookieless analytics

    Temps

    No
    Two first-party cookies + localStorage

    Plausible

    Yes
    Genuinely cookieless (daily-salted IP hash)

  • Privacy-first, no third-party trackers

    Temps

    Yes

    Plausible

    Yes

  • Lightweight tracking script

    Temps

    Yes

    Plausible

    Yes
    About 1.3KB gzipped — smaller than ours

  • Goals and conversions

    Temps

    Yes

    Plausible

    Yes
    Mature and well-designed

  • Session replay

    Temps

    Yes
    rrweb-based

    Plausible

    No
    Not offered by design

  • Error tracking

    Temps

    Yes
    Sentry-compatible DSN

    Plausible

    No

  • Uptime monitoring

    Temps

    Yes
    60s checks

    Plausible

    No

  • Deployments

    Temps

    Yes
    Git-push PaaS

    Plausible

    No
    Not a deployment platform

  • Managed PostgreSQL

    Temps

    Yes

    Plausible

    No

  • Free to run permanently

    Temps

    Yes
    Self-hosted, MIT / Apache 2.0

    Plausible

    Yes
    Self-hosted Community Edition; the hosted product is trial-only

  • Pageview-based pricing

    Temps

    No
    Not metered self-hosted

    Plausible

    Yes

  • Self-hostable

    Temps

    Yes
    MIT / Apache 2.0

    Plausible

    Yes
    Community edition

  • Focused single-purpose product

    Temps

    No

    Plausible

    Yes
    A genuine advantage if analytics is all you need

What it actually costs

If web analytics is genuinely all you need, Plausible at $9/month is inexpensive and excellent, and bundling is not a reason to switch. The case for Temps appears when analytics is one of four tools you are paying for — at which point the comparison is not $9 against nothing, it is one subscription against several.

ScenarioTempsPlausible
Entry$0 self-hosted$9/mo — up to 10k pageviews
Growth$0 (included)$14/mo — up to 3 sites
Business$0 (included)$19/mo — up to 10 sites
Free tierUnlimited self-hostedNone — 30-day trial, no card required
InfrastructureFree on your own VPS$0 hosted, or self-host the community edition

Plausible prices as of October 2026, from its published pricing page. Temps prices from /pricing.

Which one should you choose?

Choose Temps if you…

  • You want analytics, session replay, error tracking and deploys in one tool
  • You do not want pricing banded by monthly pageviews
  • You need session replay, which Plausible does not offer
  • You are already self-hosting your platform and want analytics to live there
  • You want the analytics to come with the platform rather than run as a fifth service

What Plausible does better than Temps

  • Web analytics is all you need — Plausible is focused and does it very well
  • You want the smallest possible tracking script; Plausible's is about 1.3KB gzipped
  • You want a mature, hosted, privacy-first product with no server to run
  • You value a single-purpose tool over a bundled platform
  • $9/month is not a cost you are trying to remove

Migrating from Plausible

Easy difficulty

Replace the Plausible script with @temps-sdk/react-analytics. Pageviews and goals map directly, but the consent position does not carry over: Plausible is cookieless, and Temps sets two first-party cookies, so re-check whether your jurisdiction requires a banner before you assume it does not. Historical data does not transfer — Plausible can export CSV, but there is no import path here, so run both in parallel if the history matters. Expect small discrepancies between any two analytics tools; they count bots and sessions differently.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Plausible cost?

The Starter plan is $9/month for up to 10,000 monthly pageviews, Growth is $14/month for up to 3 sites and Business is $19/month for up to 10 sites. There is a 30-day free trial with no card required, but no permanent free tier on the hosted product.

Is Plausible open source?

Yes. Plausible Community Edition is the free, self-hosted release under the AGPL v3, so you can run it yourself instead of paying for the hosted product.

Is Temps cookieless like Plausible?

No. Plausible sets no cookies and identifies visitors with a hash of the IP, user agent and a salt rotated every 24 hours. Temps' proxy sets two first-party HttpOnly cookies, _temps_visitor_id (365 days) and _temps_sid (30 minutes), and stores the data on your own server. Neither uses third-party trackers, but check your consent obligations for Temps rather than assuming Plausible's carry over.

Does Temps do everything Plausible does?

For pageviews, referrers and goals, broadly yes. Plausible is the more focused and more polished analytics product, with a smaller script. Temps adds session replay, error tracking, uptime monitoring and deployments around it.

Related comparisons

Further reading

Self-Hosted Web Analytics in Temps

What the built-in analytics, session replay and funnels cover, with a Plausible and PostHog comparison.

Analytics Setup: Events, Funnels and Web Vitals

How Temps analytics works, including the two first-party cookies it sets and what they store.

Data ownership and privacy

Where Temps keeps analytics, replay and error data, and what that means for consent.

7 Best Plausible Alternatives for Web Analytics

Privacy-first analytics tools compared on pricing, cookies and self-hosting.

Self-Hosted Sentry and Plausible Alternatives

Replacing an error tracker and an analytics tool with self-hosted options.

Best PostHog alternatives 2026

Plausible, Umami, Matomo, Temps and others, for teams choosing a lighter analytics tool.

How we researched this comparison

Plausible plan prices and trial terms read from Plausible's pricing page; its cookieless method from its data policy; the Community Edition licence from its self-hosting page, all on 2026-10-08. Temps' cookies from the Temps analytics docs and source. No benchmarks were run.

Disclosure: Temps publishes this page and is one of the products being compared. Reviewed by David Viejo, founder of Temps.

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