dashi vs plausible.
a plausible alternative that follows the money.
plausible is simple, cookieless, EU-hosted and open source, and it's the better pick when privacy decides. dashi is for founders who sell through stripe and want to see which channel, page and keyword each sale came from, with sales and refunds read straight from stripe, live on a 3D globe.
free for now while dashi is in early access. no card needed. plausible facts checked
plausible is great.
here's when.
pick plausible if…
- you want no cookies and no consent banner. plausible uses no cookies or persistent identifiers; dashi sets a first-party visitor cookie.
- your data has to stay in the EU. plausible is built and hosted on european-owned infrastructure.
- you want open source or to self-host. plausible's community edition is free and AGPL-licensed.
- every kilobyte counts. plausible's script is 2.5 KB; dashi's is under 7 KB gzipped.
- you're leaving google analytics and want your history. plausible imports it.
pick dashi if…
- you sell through stripe. dashi reads sales and refunds with a read-only key and credits each sale to the visit that started it. in plausible, revenue is a business-plan feature, and you send the amount with an event.
- you want to know which google keywords make money. dashi estimates revenue for each search console keyword.
- you like watching it live. every visitor lands as a pin with their city, device, referrer and current page.
- you'll leave it open all day: music, live weather, globe skins, and sales that go cha-ching.
- you'd like to start free with every site included. dashi is free in early access; plausible starts at $9/month after a 30-day trial.
dashi vs plausible,
row by row.
| feature | dashi | plausible |
|---|---|---|
| price | stronger here: free for now (early access), no card | from $9/month (10k pageviews); 30-day free trial, no card |
| revenue | stronger here: sales and refunds read from stripe with a restricted key | custom events you send with an amount, on the business plan ($19/month and up) |
| revenue broken down by | channel, referrer, campaign, page, country, google keyword | source, campaign, entry page, country, device |
| google search console | stronger here: keywords, with estimated revenue per keyword | search queries in the dashboard |
| live view | stronger here: a live feed, each visitor's details, and a pin on the 3D globe | a real-time dashboard, updated every 30 seconds |
| funnels | included | on the business plan |
| AI traffic | AI assistants as a referral channel, plus 61 AI crawlers tracked apart | visits sent by AI tools like chatgpt, perplexity and claude |
| bots | kept out of visitor counts | built-in bot filtering |
| cookies | a first-party visitor cookie | stronger here: none |
| hosting and code | hosted service, not open source | stronger here: EU-hosted cloud, or self-host the open-source (AGPL) edition |
| script size | under 7 KB gzipped | stronger here: 2.5 KB |
| google analytics import | not yet | stronger here: yes |
| sites | stronger here: every site, together on one globe | 1 on starter, 3 on growth, 10 on business |
| music, weather, globe skins | stronger here: built in: lofi or any youtube link, live weather, seven skins | not found on their site |
dashi is stronger on that row, plausible is, in our honest read. — means we couldn't find it on Plausible's public site. Plausible facts checked oct 27, 2026; sources below.
revenue, live visitors
and the vibe. on one globe.
revenue straight from stripe.
no amounts to send.
connect stripe once with a read-only key. each sale shows up with its amount, plan, city, device, referrer and campaign, and refunds come off on their own.
see which channel
actually pays.
visitors and revenue side by side for every channel, referrer, campaign and google keyword. spend your time where the money is.
know each visitor.
as they arrive.
tap anyone on the globe to see their city, device, referrer, the page they're on, how long they've stayed and how often they come back.
questions
does dashi use cookies?
yes, one first-party visitor cookie (plus localStorage), so returning visits and stripe sales line up. it isn't cookieless. whether you need a consent banner depends on your site and where your visitors are.
can I bring my plausible history?
not yet. dashi doesn't import data from other tools, so you can run both side by side while dashi's history builds up.
how does dashi attribute stripe revenue?
paste a stripe restricted key (rk_…) and dashi reads your sales and refunds. to tie each sale to a channel, add the dashi visitor id to your checkout session's metadata. dashi writes the prompt for you to paste into cursor, lovable or bolt. each sale is credited to the buyer's first visit.
what does dashi cost?
nothing for now, while dashi is in early access. no card needed.
watch your revenue
land.
paste one script, connect stripe, leave it open. free for now while dashi is in early access. no card needed.
more comparisons
sources, checked oct 27, 2026
- Plausible homepage: features and pricing
- Plausible docs: ecommerce revenue tracking
- Plausible: self-hosted Community Edition
- Plausible: script size
- Plausible docs: Search Console integration
Plausible is a trademark of its owner, named here only to compare. dashi isn't affiliated with Plausible.