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Pulse vs Plausible

Plausible is a mature, open-source, cookieless analytics tool from an EU company (Estonia) — the most established name in this category.

PulsevsPlausible
Starting price
Pulse
Free Personal tier; paid plans — see pricing
Plausible
From $9/mo (10k pageviews)
Cookies
Pulse
None
Plausible
None
Consent banner (EU)
Pulse
Not needed
Plausible
Not needed
Open source
Pulse
Frontend + client open (AGPL)
Plausible
Yes — self-hostable
Data residency
Pulse
Switzerland / EU
Plausible
EU (Hetzner, Germany)
Company jurisdiction
Pulse
Belgium (EU)
Plausible
EU (Estonia)

Plausible and Pulse are close peers — both cookieless, both banner-free, both open and EU-based. Plausible has the longer track record and can be self-hosted; Pulse’s distinct edge is a Belgian company with data hosted in Switzerland. See Pulse pricing. Prices for Plausible were checked against their public pricing page on 2026-07-21 and can change — confirm the current figure with the vendor.

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01 · Why teams pick Pulse

How Pulse compares to Plausible

This is the fairest fight on the list: Plausible pioneered cookieless, banner-free, open-source EU analytics and does it well. Pulse shares that entire foundation. Where they differ is jurisdiction and residency detail — Pulse is operated by Ciphera BV in Belgium with data hosted in Switzerland, and ships as part of a wider EU privacy platform. If you are choosing between two good tools, pick on product feel and the specifics of who holds your data.

An EU company, under EU law

Pulse is operated by Ciphera BV, a Belgian company. Your analytics provider — and your GDPR and NIS2 jurisdiction — sits inside the EU, not offshore.

About Ciphera

Swiss data residency

Every byte of visitor data lives on infrastructure hosted in Switzerland — no transfer to the US, and no dependence on US-jurisdiction cloud providers.

EU web analytics

No cookies, no consent banner

Pulse sets no cookies and does not fingerprint visitors, so it is exempt from ePrivacy consent — no banner, and it counts every visitor, not just the ones who opt in.

How cookieless works

Open client, verifiable code

The dashboard and tracking script are open (AGPL) on GitHub, so you can read exactly what runs instead of taking our word for it.

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02 · The honest case

When Plausible is the better choice

Plausible is an excellent product and, for many teams, the safer default.

  • You want the most established privacy-analytics brand, with the longest track record and the largest community and plugin ecosystem.
  • You need to self-host the analytics engine on your own infrastructure — Plausible ships a supported self-hosted edition today.
  • You prefer Plausible’s dashboard and feature set after trying both.

If none of the above is a dealbreaker, Pulse gives you cookieless, banner-free analytics from an EU company with Swiss/EU data residency — and you can check it yourself on the live demo.

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Start free on the Personal tier — one script tag, no cookies, no consent banner. Or open the live demo first and see Pulse running.

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Cookie-free · Open-source client · No personal data stored