Analytics · replacement recipe

Go from Plausible Analytics to Umami

The job: Basic website and conversion analytics (Pageviews, Referrers, Named events, Simple conversion report). Pick where you are today and where you want to land; the move below follows your pick.

From · what you pay for now
Plausible Analytics
Plausible Starter · $9/mo
Year one+$58modeled
To · your pickBest fit
Umami
Free plan · $0 a month
Change where you land

The money

$9/mo today $0/mo

Plausible Starter

Year one, net+$58
Pays back in5.6 months

Modeled from public list prices, with your time at $50 an hour. Show the math

Does it do the job? 4 of 4 covered

  • Pageviews
  • Referrers
  • Named events
  • Simple conversion report

The work

Setup
About 1 h
Upkeep
None
Watch out
1 website, no teams, 6-month data retention, no email reports, no API access.

Make the move in four steps

  1. Export from Plausible Analytics

    The site's collected stats. Format: CSV

    Export steps

  2. Set up Umami

    1 website, up to 100K events/month; pageviews, referrers, custom events, goals and funnels

    Details

  3. Switch links and integrations

    Point links, embeds and integrations at Umami, then send a test through every one.

  4. Cancel Plausible Analytics

    Turn off renewal before your renewal date, once the new setup works. Access runs until: The end of the paid billing period; after that the dashboard is locked….

    How to cancel Plausible Analytics
Open UmamiHow to cancel Plausible Analytics
Modeled, not measured. Savings use public prices and planning assumptions: the bill you stop paying, minus the new tool, your upkeep time and your setup time at $50/hour, over the first 12 months. Paths marked Tested by Stackcut were run end to end by us on our own products. They're our tests, not customer results. Check the must-haves in each recipe before you switch.

The whole recipe: 4 ways out, best first

What you use

  • Pageviews
  • Referrers
  • Named events
  • Simple conversion report

Not covered

  • Full retention/cohort engine
  • Experiment platform
  • Identity resolution parity
  • Session replay

Check before switching

  • Actual event volume known
  • Free tiers compared
  • Required funnels supported
  • Privacy/retention requirements reviewed

Agents: get_recipe("basic-web-analytics") on the Stackcut MCP server.

4 ways out, best first

Switch vendorUmami Cloud Hobby (free)Saves $58 in year one
$9/mo today → $0/mo · setup 1 h · then $108/yr · payback 5.6 mo
1 website, up to 100K events/month; pageviews, referrers, custom events, goals and funnels
Covers 100% of the core features
Plausible Starter $9/month (10k pageviews, billed monthly). Umami Cloud Hobby is $0 up to 100K events/month for 1 website with 6-month retention and no team members; Pro is $20/month.
License: Inspect current repository license and hosted-plan features.
How we got this
You pay now: Plausible Starterflat price$9/mo
New cost: Umami Cloud Hobby (free)free plan$0/mo
Difference each month$9 − $0+$9/mo
Over 12 months+$9 × 12+$108
Setup, once1 h × $50/h−$50
Year one+$108 − $50+$58
  • Not counting your time (1 h in year one): saves $108 in year one.

Year one = 12 × (what you pay now − the new cost − upkeep) − setup, with your time at $50/hour. Prices are public list prices; hours are Stackcut’s planning estimates. Price it for your team

Sources: plausible.ioumami.is
Open sourceUmamiSavings not modeled yet
Covers 100% of the core features
License: Inspect current repository license and hosted-plan features.
Sources: umami.is
Agent skillPostHog AI pluginPriced by usage
Free to install; needs PostHog Cloud (usage-based; starts at $0) (Read 2026-09-25: 'Starts at: $0'.)
Product-analytics analysis (funnels, experiments, replays, flags) by your agent on PostHog, instead of paid seats in Mixpanel or Amplitude.
Covers 50% of the core features (not: Pageviews, Referrers)
Assumes you already pay for an agent that runs skills (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Gemini CLI); that agent's cost isn't counted. Needs PostHog Cloud (usage-based; starts at $0): priced by usage, so this way isn't priced here. Setup (1 h) and upkeep (0.5 h a month) are Stackcut's estimates; not tested by Stackcut.
License: MIT
Install: claude plugin marketplace add PostHog/ai-plugin && claude plugin install posthog@posthog
Sources: github.comraw.githubusercontent.complausible.io
Replace with AIReplace with AI: basic website and conversion analyticsSavings not modeled yet
Deploy a maintained tracker or build a few reports on an existing event pipeline; do not rebuild general event infrastructure.
Covers 100% of the core features
Sources: mixpanel.comamplitude.complausible.io

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