KindaCan Grok Bot build Plausible?
It gets most of the way, but you stay in the loop · and here's exactly where.
- Price
- $9/mo
- You'd save
- $108/yr
- Who runs it
- The bot
- Category
- Analytics
Plausible is open source, so the sensible move isn't building a clone - it's having the bot self-host the real one, which it can do. But be honest about what you're trading. The reason Plausible's numbers are trustworthy is that they maintain the bot-filtering list, the referrer spam list and the UA parsing, continuously, as the web changes. Self-hosted, you get the same code and a snapshot of that curation, drifting from the day you deploy. Your pageview count will slowly become a different number from the true one, and you won't notice.
The prompt
Written for a bot that already has a browser, a terminal and your logins · paste it in whole.
Don't write an analytics engine. Plausible is open source - run it for me. You have a computer and a browser. Stand up self-hosted Plausible Community Edition and keep it running. - Set up a small VPS under my account (walk me through the signup · wait for me at the payment step) and run the official docker-compose there: Postgres plus ClickHouse, managed over SSH from your terminal. ClickHouse is not optional and not swappable for Postgres - that's the whole reason it's fast. - Behind my domain with TLS. Serve the tracking script from that same domain so ad blockers treat it as first-party. - Add the snippet to my site and show me a live pageview before you call it done. - Configure outbound mail so the weekly report actually sends. Ongoing: - Nightly backup of both Postgres and ClickHouse, from the server to my Google Drive. Monthly, restore to scratch and prove it works. - Watch disk. ClickHouse will grow faster than you expect. Message me at 70%. - Check monthly for releases, show me the changelog, wait for my go-ahead. - Once a quarter, compare a week of your numbers against my server access logs and tell me how far apart they are. Drift is the failure mode here and I want to see it.
The bot will need to sign into: google-drive
What you lose
- continuously maintained bot and referrer-spam filtering
- EU-hosted data handling somebody else is accountable for
- a script served from a CDN that's faster than your box
- supporting a small independent company doing the right thing
The numbers
Starter is $9/mo for 10k monthly pageviews, Growth $14. No free plan, a 30-day trial. Self-hosting the community edition is free under AGPL.
plausible.io/pricingChecked against the live page on 2026-08-23
Why we think that
The load-bearing claim behind this verdict, and where it comes from.