MOJAQ vs Plausible: two takes on privacy analytics
Both give you cookieless, GDPR-friendly web analytics with no consent banner for the analytics itself. Plausible is the focused, open-source tool you can self-host; MOJAQ is a managed EU suite that puts the same kind of analytics next to your errors, uptime and deploys. Here is the honest version — where each one wins.
EU-hosted in Helsinki · GDPR-native · free during the private beta
At a glance
| MOJAQ | Plausible | |
|---|---|---|
| Analytics model | Cookieless, aggregate; goals & custom events | Cookieless, aggregate; goals & custom events |
| Open source | No — managed service | Yes |
| Self-hosting | Not available (managed EU service) | Yes, community edition |
| Data residency | EU dedicated infra, Helsinki | EU cloud, or your own server |
| Beyond analytics | Errors · Uptime · Logs · Flags · Realtime · Render | Analytics only |
| Track record | New — private beta | Established, years in market |
| Price | Free during the private beta | Paid plans |
Where Plausible is the better choice
If open source matters to you, Plausible wins outright. You can read the code, and the community edition lets you self-host so that raw analytics data never leaves a machine you control. MOJAQ cannot match that, because it is a managed service by design — it keeps your data in the EU with a DPA, but it does not hand you the binary to run yourself.
Plausible is also the safer pick when analytics is genuinely all you need. It has been in the market for years, it has a large and opinionated community, and it does one job with a polished, well-worn feature set. If you already run it and it fits, there is no strong reason in the analytics numbers alone to move.
Where MOJAQ fits better
MOJAQ wins when web analytics is one of several things you are trying to run, not the whole job. Most teams glue analytics to a separate error tracker, a separate uptime monitor and a render or reporting API — four vendors, four bills, four DPAs. MOJAQ puts cookieless analytics in the same account as error tracking, uptime, logs, feature flags, realtime and an HTML-to-PDF render API, so a traffic dip sits next to the deploy that caused it and the errors that followed.
It also wins on managed EU residency without operations. You get dedicated infrastructure in Helsinki and a DPA without provisioning a server, patching it or planning its backups. And during the private beta every tool is unlocked for free, which makes it cheap to try the whole suite next to Plausible before deciding anything.
Moving from Plausible
Run both trackers side by side for a week. Add the MOJAQ cookieless script, define your goals and any custom events, and confirm the pageview and goal numbers line up with what you expect. Because cookie-based and cookieless systems can count visitors and sessions differently, record your cutover date rather than treating unlike metrics as identical, then retire whichever tracker you are replacing once you trust the new numbers.
Questions
Is MOJAQ open-source like Plausible?
No. Plausible has an open-source, self-hostable edition; MOJAQ is a managed EU service. Choose Plausible if auditable source or self-hosting is a hard requirement; choose MOJAQ if you want EU residency plus errors, uptime and more without running infrastructure.
Do both work without a cookie banner?
Both are cookieless and set no analytics cookies or per-visitor profiles, so neither needs an analytics cookie banner. Your lawful basis, privacy notice and any other scripts on the page are still your responsibility.
Can MOJAQ replace Plausible one for one?
For core cookieless pageviews, sessions, goals and custom events, yes. If you depend on a specific Plausible report or its ecosystem, validate that workflow first. MOJAQ's edge is the surrounding suite, not report-for-report parity.
What does MOJAQ cost?
Free during the private beta, with no fixed end date and no card required. Paid plans will be announced in advance.
Analytics, plus the rest of your stack — in the EU
Cookieless analytics next to errors, uptime, flags and realtime. One account in Helsinki. Free while we are in beta.
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