Minecraft plugin analytics tools, compared
Which tool fits depends on the question. Counting servers, understanding how your plugin is used, or finding lag on one server are three different jobs.
| Tool | Best for | What it does | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| PluginAnalytics | Plugin developers who want product answers | Servers and players, events, funnels, retention, errors, logs, performance, listing views → installs, update notices and in-game reports. Private. Spigot, Paper, Purpur, Folia. | Free, then €9 / €19 a month |
| bStats | Developers who want a free public count | Server and player counts with custom pie, line and bar charts, on public pages. Many platforms. Open source. | Free |
| FastStats | Developers on many platforms, including mods | Private dashboards, custom metrics, retention, error tracking and download analytics for Paper, Spigot, Velocity, Fabric, Hytale and Minestom. | Free closed beta |
| FancyAnalytics | Early adopters | Metrics and events for servers and plugins from FancyInnovations; its docs say it's still in development and may change. | See their site |
| Plan (Player Analytics) | Server owners, not plugin developers | A plugin a server owner installs to analyse their own players: sessions, playtime, activity. | Free, open source |
| spark | Server owners chasing lag | An on-demand profiler for one server at a time. Great for finding lag on a server; it doesn't aggregate across the servers running your plugin. | Free, open source |
Comparison checked in October 2026 against each tool's own website. Something out of date? Tell us at hello@pluginanalytics.dev.
For plugin developers
bStats is the long-standing default for a public server count. FastStats and PluginAnalytics are the newer, private options: FastStats spans more platforms (including mods and Hytale), PluginAnalytics goes deeper into product questions for Bukkit-based plugins (funnels, performance, listing conversion, update notices and in-game reports). Side by side: PluginAnalytics vs bStats and PluginAnalytics vs FastStats.
For server owners
Plan analyses a server's own players, and spark profiles a server to find what lags. They're installed by the server owner and answer questions about that one server, not about a plugin across thousands of servers. Plugin developers often use spark while debugging, next to an analytics tool: see PluginAnalytics vs spark.
How to choose
- Just need a public number? bStats.
- Need to know what's used, what breaks and what converts, for a Spigot or Paper plugin? PluginAnalytics.
- Ship a Fabric mod, a Velocity plugin or a Hytale mod? FastStats or bStats.
- Run a server and want to understand its players or its lag? Plan and spark.
See how your plugin is used
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