Nodium and Plausible
Plausible and Nodium both count visitors without cookies and keep the page simple. Nodium adds a read of your own forms, says what it noticed in plain-English insights, and checks your pages every week. Here's where they differ.
Facts checked on October 23, 2026, each against its source. Every number links to where it came from.
Side by side
| What | Nodium | Plausible | Better at this |
|---|---|---|---|
| One busier site | $9 a month for one site with 10,000 pageviews a month, or $15 for 5 sites and 100,000, with every feature on this page on every plan.1 | Up to 100,000 pageviews a month: Starter is $19 for one site, Growth $29 and Business $39.2 More sites need Growth, and some features need Business.3 | About even |
| Several sites | 5 sites on Business at $15 a month, sharing 100,000 pageviews; up to 50 sites on High Traffic.1 | Growth covers up to 3 sites and Business up to 102, with one pageview allowance across them3. | About even |
| Counting without cookies | No cookies and nothing stored on the device. A visitor is a daily key made from the IP address, the browser and your site, and the IP address is never stored.4 | A daily hash of a salt, the site, the IP address and the browser, with the salt deleted every 24 hours. No cookies or local storage, and raw IP addresses are never stored.5 | About even |
| Form analysis | Reads each form on your own site field by field, never what anyone types: who saw it, who started it, who sent it (where your site shows a send), the field where people stop and the fields the form marked wrong. Nothing to set up.6 | Detects submissions of your own forms and records them as one goal, which count toward the pageviews you pay for.7 We didn't find form starts, fields or drop-off on that page. | Nodium |
| Insights in plain English | “What we noticed”: insights from written rules, each with how it was counted. No AI.8 | We didn't find this on Plausible's pages. | Nodium |
| Search, speed and accessibility checks | Weekly search, speed and accessibility checks, with a fix list.9 | We didn't find this on Plausible's pages. | Nodium |
| Email reports | A Monday email with the week's figures, notes and fixes.10 | Weekly on Mondays or monthly, with your stats in the email.11 | Nodium |
When to pick Nodium
Pick Nodium if your site is there to get people to call, email or send a form. It counts visitors as privately as Plausible, then tells you how many people saw, started and sent each of your forms, where they stop, and what on your pages is worth fixing this week.
Sources
- Nodium: Pricing, opened October 18, 2026
- Plausible: Pricing (the plans at 10k and 100k monthly pageviews), opened October 18, 2026
- Plausible docs: Pricing and subscription plans, opened October 20, 2026
- Nodium Docs: Privacy on your site, opened October 18, 2026
- Plausible: Data policy, opened October 18, 2026
- Nodium Docs: What the script reads, opened October 23, 2026
- Plausible docs: Form submissions tracking, opened October 23, 2026
- Nodium Docs: What we noticed, opened October 18, 2026
- Nodium Docs: Weekly site checks, opened October 18, 2026
- Nodium Docs: The weekly report, opened October 18, 2026
- Plausible docs: Email reports, opened October 20, 2026
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