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Plausible Community Edition

v1.0.0
Load

Up to 1 million pageviews a month across a dozen sites, goals and custom events, a team of up to 10 on the dashboards, a year of stats kept.

Options

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Recommended resources

App requirements + system baseline + safety headroom. Nothing else is added, and nothing is rounded to a machine size.

vCPU 4.92, RAM 8.1 GiB, Disk 28.52 GiB

vCPU4.92
RAM8.1GiB
Disk28.52GiB
Breakdown
LineFromvCPURAM (GiB)Disk (GiB)Sources
Plausible Community EditionPlausible (web app and event ingestion) · Medium load11.521234
Plausible Community EditionPostgreSQL · Medium load116.5567891011312
Plausible Community EditionClickHouse (analytics events) · Medium load238113141516
System baselineOperating system, Container runtime (Docker Engine, containerd), System logs (journald), plus logs for 3 containers0.11.258.3171819202122
Safety headroomvCPU 20%, RAM 20%, disk 15% of apps + baseline0.821.353.722318242125
Recommended total4.928.128.52
Sources
  1. community-edition repository: README.md at v3.2.1 (CPU with SSE 4.2 or NEON; at least 2 GB RAM for ClickHouse and Plausible; SECRET_KEY_BASE ≥ 64 bytes; first user at BASE_URL) (Plausible Community Edition, read 14 Oct 2026)
  2. GHCR manifest of ghcr.io/plausible/community-edition:v3.2.1 (linux/amd64): 64,805,743 B compressed in its layers; built 2026-05-15 from plausible/analytics e4f5a87, user 999 (Plausible Community Edition, read 14 Oct 2026)
  3. plausible/analytics repository: config/runtime.exs at v3.2.1 (HTTP_PORT 8000; SECRET_KEY_BASE ≥ 32 bytes; TOTP key derived from it; DISABLE_REGISTRATION invite_only; no Repo pool_size) (Plausible Community Edition, read 14 Oct 2026)
  4. community-edition repository: compose.yml at v3.2.1 (postgres:16-alpine; clickhouse-server:24.12-alpine, 4 XML mounts, nofile 262144; plausible: db createdb, db migrate, run; TMPDIR) (Plausible Community Edition, read 14 Oct 2026)
  5. PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 19.4 Resource Consumption (Plausible Community Edition, read 10 Oct 2026)
  6. PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 19.3 Connections and Authentication (Plausible Community Edition, read 10 Oct 2026)
  7. PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 19.10 Vacuuming (autovacuum settings) (Plausible Community Edition, read 10 Oct 2026)
  8. PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 19.5 Write Ahead Log (max_wal_size) (Plausible Community Edition, read 10 Oct 2026)
  9. PostgreSQL 18 documentation: 51.2 How Connections Are Established (Plausible Community Edition, read 10 Oct 2026)
  10. Docker Official Image postgres: documentation (docker-library/docs) (Plausible Community Edition, read 10 Oct 2026)
  11. Docker Hub: library/postgres tag 18.6 (compressed image sizes) (Plausible Community Edition, read 10 Oct 2026)
  12. Ecto Docs: Ecto.Repo (pool_size defaults to 10) (Plausible Community Edition, read 14 Oct 2026)
  13. ClickHouse Docs: Using less than 16GB of RAM (32 GB recommended; 2 GB needs tuning: 500 MB mark cache, 1 thread; disable asynchronous_metric_log, metric_log, text_log, trace_log) (Plausible Community Edition, read 14 Oct 2026)
  14. Docker Hub: clickhouse/clickhouse-server tag 24.12.6.70-alpine (linux/amd64 154,945,233 B compressed; same digest as 24.12-alpine) (Plausible Community Edition, read 14 Oct 2026)
  15. community-edition repository: clickhouse/default-profile-low-resources-overrides.xml at v3.2.1 (max_threads 1, max_block_size 8192, max_download_threads 1, parallel parsing and formatting off) (Plausible Community Edition, read 14 Oct 2026)
  16. plausible/analytics repository: CHANGELOG.md at v3.2.1 (v3.0.0 engagement events and /api/health soft-deprecation; v3.1.0 full site exports; v2.1.0 removals; v2.0.0 IP_BLOCKLIST removed) (Plausible Community Edition, read 14 Oct 2026)
  17. Ubuntu Server: System requirements (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  18. Google Kubernetes Engine: About GKE node sizing (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  19. ANAROQ measurement: dockerd and containerd at rest (Ubuntu 24.04, Docker 29.8.2) (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  20. Docker Community Forums: Docker resource usage & overhead (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  21. journald.conf(5), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  22. Docker Docs: Local file logging driver (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  23. AWS Compute Optimizer: Rightsizing recommendation preferences (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  24. Kubernetes: Node-pressure Eviction (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
  25. mke2fs(8), Ubuntu Manpages (Sizing policy, read 10 Oct 2026)
Basis
Catalog release
2026.10.10
Sizing policy
2026.10.0
Profile Plausible Community Edition
1.0.0

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