Plausible alternative

Both are cookieless and neither needs a consent banner. The difference is what you do with the data, and whether you ever open a dashboard to get it.

What Plausible does well

Plausible is a good product built by a team that has been at it far longer than we have. It is open source, you can self-host it, and its dashboard is genuinely well designed. It is cookieless and needs no consent banner, so on privacy the two products land in the same place.

If you like opening a dashboard, Plausible is better at being one than we will ever be, because we are not trying to be one. That is a real answer, not a polite one.

The actual difference

Plausible is a dashboard product with an API attached. Staats has no dashboard at all: your coding agent is the interface, over the Model Context Protocol.

Worth saying plainly that you can already point an agent at Plausible. Several community MCP servers exist for it, and one is maintained by Sentry. If all you want is to query your Plausible numbers from Claude Code or Cursor, install one of those. It works.

What those servers cannot do is hold state, because they wrap an API built for a dashboard to read. Staats stores the context:

It remembers your project. Staats stores what each site is for, what your funnel steps mean, and what every event tracks, so a question three weeks later does not start from a blank slate.

It knows what you shipped. Your agent tags each deploy with its commit and the routes it touched, then compares traffic before and after that exact change, and tells you when the difference is too small to trust.

It speaks before you ask. Unusual days, first-time referrers and pages whose share jumped are surfaced on their own, rather than waiting for you to go looking.

What you give up

The dashboard. There is no visual interface. If you enjoy a weekly scroll through your traffic graph, you will miss it.

Self-hosting. Plausible can run on your own infrastructure. Staats is hosted only.

Open source. Plausible's code is public and ours is not.

Maturity. They are established and we are not. If you need a vendor with years behind it, that is a legitimate reason to stay.

If you are already on Plausible

You are the easiest case, because you have already decided you want cookieless analytics without a consent banner. The only question left is whether you want to keep going to a dashboard to read it. Both tags can run at once, so install Staats alongside and compare for a few weeks.

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