The Plausible alternative that also sees your AI traffic.
Plausible is an excellent analytics tool: simple, cookieless, affordable. But no classic analytics shows what the AIs do on your site. Snorklee measures the full AI funnel — pages crawled by AI robots, fetched live to answer, visitors sent by AI chats — on top of sovereign analytics. Passively measured, never guessed. 7-day free trial.
The same cookieless foundation. And what changes.
Factual, neutral comparison — verified in July 2026, per Plausible's published pricing.
| Criterion | Snorklee | Plausible |
|---|---|---|
| No cookies, no banner | ✓ by design | ✓ by design |
| AI summaries + natural-language questions | ✓ Snorklee AI, included | — |
| AI traffic (crawlers + visits from chats) | ✓ AI crawlers, live fetches, visits from chats | referrers only |
| Live fetches during AI answers (ChatGPT-User, Perplexity-User…) | ✓ detected the moment an AI fetches your pages to answer | — |
| Pages crawled by AIs vs pages visited | ✓ cross-referenced page by page — crawled-but-never-visited included | — |
| Search Console and Bing built in | ✓ queries, clicks and positions next to your traffic | — |
| Weekly AI-written client reports (co-branded) | ✓ included, sent to your clients | basic email reports |
| occurrence floor on crossings | ✓ owner included | — |
| Unique visitor counting | ✓ no list — statistical counter, no identifier kept | daily pseudonym stored in the database (salt deleted after 24 h) |
| Hosting and company | France (Paris) · French company | EU (Germany) · Estonian company |
| Interface | 6 languages (FR · EN · DE · IT · ES · NL) | mostly English |
| Documented compliance + DPA | ✓ 5 frameworks, DPA signable online | DPA available |
| Price (checked July 2026) | From €19/month ex. VAT (Snorklee One), analytics + AI funnel included — 7-day trial | from €9/month (10k pageviews), per their published pricing — analytics only |
In 2026, the choice is no longer “which analytics”.
It is: seeing — or not seeing — the AI share of your acquisition. Analytics alone — Plausible like any other — distinguishes neither the AI robots reading your pages, nor the pages an AI fetches to answer, nor the visitors coming from AI chats. Snorklee brings the two halves together: Plausible-grade sovereign analytics and your site's full AI funnel, measured in one place.
The honest math: Plausible (from €9/month) measures your human visits — and nothing of AI traffic. Snorklee One: from €19/month ex. VAT, analytics and the full AI funnel in one dashboard.
Competitor prices checked in July 2026 on their public pages — pricing may change.
What Snorklee adds — and no analytics alone does.
Crawled by AIs
Every AI robot pass (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot…) is identified and counted, page by page. You see who reads your content and how often — frequently far more than your human visitors.
Fetched live
Pages an AI fetches while handling a user's request are detected the moment it happens — the closest signal to the answer actually given. Cross-referenced with your visits: you see the pages crawled but never visited.
Visited — humans from AI chats
Visitors clicking through from ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini are counted separately, cookie-free — where GA4 files 60–70% of them under “Direct”. And the AI writes a co-branded weekly report for your clients — all sovereign, hosted in France.
Migrating from Plausible to Snorklee
You keep the same cookieless foundation — and you add measurement of your AI traffic: crawlers, live fetches, visits from chats. The switch takes a few minutes and breaks nothing.
- Create an account and add your site — the trial is free for 7 days.
- Replace the Plausible snippet with Snorklee’s: one line in the page head (or the WordPress plugin).
- Check data arriving in real time, keep both tools for a few days, then remove the old script.
Your history: Snorklee does not import your Plausible data — it starts a fresh measurement at install. Your history stays available in Plausible as long as you keep an account there; export it from Plausible to archive it.
And when Plausible remains the right choice.
We prefer an honest comparison: if you want pure analytics at the best price, or to self-host it on your own servers, Plausible is an excellent option, with a mature community. Snorklee is a different choice: a managed service with zero maintenance, your site's AI funnel measured passively, and a French counterpart with a signed DPA.