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Heap vs Plausible

Plausible scores higher on the AgentReady, 48/100 against 42/100. They differ on 7 of the 41 signals. Which ones decides whether an agent can adopt them without a person watching.

What each one is

Heap. Heap is a digital analytics platform that automatically captures every user interaction to help companies understand customers' end-to-end journeys, improve conversion and activation, increase retention, and deliver great user experiences.

Plausible. Plausible Analytics is a simple, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.

Where Heap is ahead

Heap passes fast time to first request, copyable quickstart and official python sdk, and Plausible does not. That is adopt, whether an agent can get a key and make its first successful call without a human in the loop.

Where Plausible is ahead

Plausible passes public docs discoverable, and Heap does not. That is discover, whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists.

It also holds understand: authentication documented. Heap misses it.

And on adopt, no mandatory sales call and agent-compatible signup flow. Heap misses those.

What neither does

Both fail llms.txt published, llms-full.txt / full agent docs, mcp discoverable, structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented, programmatic credential creation, cli available, mcp integration available, structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified. If your agent needs any of those, you will be building it yourself either way.

Score, pillar by pillar

The AgentReady splits into four pillars, scored separately, because a product can be easy to find and still impossible to adopt.

Discover is whether an agent can find the product at all without being told it exists. Plausible leads 73 to 60. Heap misses public docs discoverable, llms.txt published, llms-full.txt / full agent docs, mcp discoverable; Plausible misses llms.txt published, llms-full.txt / full agent docs, mcp discoverable.

Understand. Plausible leads 31 to 23. Heap misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, authentication documented, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented; Plausible misses structured api reference, openapi / spec quality, request examples provided, response examples provided, errors and status codes documented, limits / constraints documented.

Adopt. Plausible leads 52 to 50. Heap misses no mandatory sales call, agent-compatible signup flow, programmatic credential creation, cli available, mcp integration available; Plausible misses programmatic credential creation, fast time to first request, copyable quickstart, official python sdk, cli available, mcp integration available.

Operate. Both sit at 35/100 here. Heap misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified; Plausible misses structured, predictable output, machine-readable errors, retry behavior documented, idempotency support, rate-limit behavior predictable, agent compatibility verified.

Pricing

Heap does not publish a machine-readable starting price and has a free tier. Plausible starts at $9/mo with no free tier.

Signal by signal

Which to pick

Plausible clears more of the signals an agent needs, so it is the safer default for unattended use. Full profiles: Heap and Plausible. Alternatives to each: Heap, Plausible.

An agent can fetch this as data: POST /v1/compare {"slugs": ["heap", "plausible"]}