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Fathom Analytics

Privacy-focused web analytics; self-hosting means the older MIT-licensed Fathom Lite.

Web Analytics

Fathom Analytics is privacy-first website analytics: pageviews, referrers, campaigns, events and revenue without cookies or personal data, positioned as a Google Analytics alternative. The vendor's current product is hosted only — its features FAQ answers the question 'Can I host the data locally?' with 'No. Fathom is a hosted product' — so running it yourself means operating Fathom Lite, the original open-source version from the same team, which uses cookies, keeps the older dashboard and is now maintained with bug fixes rather than new features. Hosted plans are flat monthly prices by pageview tier starting at 15 USD per month for up to 100,000 pageviews, and every plan includes at least 50 sites.

Key features

Fathom Lite (self-hosted)Free self-hosted
LicenceOpen source · MITDeploymentSelf-hosted
Limits, notes & source

Fathom Lite (self-hosted)

Limits
Runs on your own servers with the older Lite dashboard. It uses cookies, and has no API, no custom events, ecommerce or UTM tracking, no device, browser or country metrics, no EU isolation or custom domains, and no email reports, CSV export or Google Analytics import. Support is the GitHub issue tracker only.
Notes
No fee is charged for Lite; you pay only for your own server. The vendor describes it as a self-hosted solution you install and manage yourself and states that with Lite you are on your own. The repository README calls it a previous, open-source version of the paid hosted product and says no new features are being added, only bug fixes; the last tagged release is v1.3.1 from January 2023.
Source
usefathom.com/pricing/lite ↗

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Fathom Lite is MIT licensed, so the self-hosted edition costs nothing to run. Source
  • Hosted plans publish a flat monthly price per pageview tier, from 15 to 470 USD. Source
  • Every hosted plan includes at least 50 sites; extra packs of 50 cost 10 USD per month. Source

Trade-offs

  • There is no self-hosted edition of the current product: the vendor states it is hosted only. Source
  • Lite is maintenance-only with no new features; its last tagged release was January 2023. Source
  • Lite uses cookies and omits the API, events, ecommerce, UTM, email reports and GA import. Source

Fathom Analytics replaces

Products this app is built to take over from, with the vendor's own evidence.

Moving your content across: Documented per product: what you do on the side you are leaving, what this app does with the result, and what does not survive the trip. Every step links to the page that documents it.

  • Google AnalyticsA vendor page is titled 'Fathom Analytics: Privacy-First Google Analytics Alternative'.Source
    • CaveatFathom's importer takes GA4 properties only: Google deleted Universal Analytics data on 1 July 2024 and the docs state there is no way to import it.Source
    • CaveatThe importer belongs to the hosted product — Fathom's own comparison table marks GA import as ✗ for self-hosted Fathom Lite and ✓ for Fathom (hosted).Source
  • Google Analytics 4 (GA4)The vendor states its GA importer brings GA4 data into Fathom; the importer ships with the hosted plans, not with Fathom Lite.Source
    • ImportSite settings → Imports → New import → Google Analytics (GA4), sign in with Google, pick the property, map it to your domain, choose a timeframe and start the import.Source
    • CaveatLarge imports fail: the docs say a single run with millions of pageviews times out, so it must be split into 1–2 year chunks, and a finished import can take up to 48 hours.Source
    • CaveatThe importer ships with the hosted plans only — Fathom's own table marks GA import as ✗ on self-hosted Fathom Lite.Source

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