StepMetrics vs Plausible
StepMetrics adds analytics your coding agent can query, funnels and revenue on the free plan, returning visitors by source, uptime monitoring, and bot filtering that never marks a visit as a bot for its network alone.
Where they differ
| StepMetrics | Plausible | |
|---|---|---|
| Ask questions from your editor | Built in. An MCP server with twenty-eight read-only tools, included on every plan. | No official MCP server. Community-built servers connect through its Stats API. |
| Free plan | 200,000 events a month and 2 sites, with no card. | No free plan. A 30-day free trial, with no card. |
| Paid plans | Pro is $19 a month for 1,000,000 events and 100 sites. Scale is $99 for 10,000,000 events and 1,000 sites. | From $9 a month for up to 10,000 pageviews on 1 site, rising through Growth and Business. |
| Funnels | On every plan, including Free. | On Business and above. |
| Revenue | Any event can carry exact revenue, on every plan. | Ecommerce revenue attribution on Business and above. |
| Bot filtering | A visit is marked a bot only for something it did or declared. A data-center network alone never convicts a visit, so real readers on a VPN stay counted. Visits it cannot verify are shown apart from proven humans, and filtered visits are kept with their reason. | Excludes about 40,800 data-center IP ranges outright. Its docs note that some VPN visitors are filtered as a tradeoff. |
| Uptime monitoring | A monitor for every site, with outage emails, on every plan. | Not part of the product. |
| Your own AI agents | Runs, model calls, tokens and cost, on the same event meter. | Not part of the product. |
| Cookies | One first-party cookie on your site, holding a random id, plus a device fingerprint that recognises a visitor without the cookie, so returning visitors can be counted. Add data-cookieless or data-no-fingerprint to the tag to run without either. | None. |
| Data retention | 400 days by default. | 3 years on Starter and Growth, 5 years on Business. |
| Source code | Hosted service; the code is not public. | Open source. |
Trying it alongside Plausible
The tag is one line and the free plan covers 200,000 events a month, so you can run both on the same site for a week without paying for either decision. Compare the visitor counts, then look at the visits StepMetrics could not verify as human. That view is where the two tools disagree, and it shows you exactly which traffic the difference is made of.
How agents read your analytics ยท How bot filtering works
Plausible details checked on 24 September 2026 against its pricing, documentation and bot filtering pages.
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