🆚 Fathom vs. Plausible

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Web analytics tool
Web analytics tool

About

Fathom is a privacy-first website analytics solution that provides real-time traffic metrics with compliance with GDPR, CCPA, ePrivacy, and PECR, while filtering out bots, scrapers, and spam traffic.

It offers lightweight, cookieless analytics with accurate human visitor data, an intuitive dashboard with real-time metrics, custom event and UTM campaign tracking, unlimited data retention, email reporting and API access, and an open-source self-hosted Lite version.

Plausible is a lightweight, privacy-friendly web analytics service used to measure website traffic and conversions, available as a hosted subscription or a self-hosted open source option.

It provides real-time dashboards, goal and campaign tracking, and ecommerce revenue metrics, uses a script under 1 KB, collects no cookies or personal data, is compliant with GDPR and CCPA, and integrates with Google Search Console.

Headquarters

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Tartu, Estonia

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️Fathom Lite, open source
$15+/month
Free version ✔️Community Edition, self-hosted, open source
Plausible Analytics Cloud
Up to 10K PV/month$9+/month
Up to 100K PV/month$19+/month
Up to 500K PV/month$49+/month
Up to 1M PV/month$69+/month

Categories

Analytics › Rank #34
Analytics › Rank #19

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Plausible web analytics tool is 2.4 times more popular than Fathom.
Total websites

Market share

Analytics

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Plausible is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Fathom is more popular in Thailand and Malta.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Netherlands
Norway
Denmark
Switzerland
Belgium
Italy

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Plausible is more popular than Fathom in all market segments.
Business
Internet Services
Blogs/Wiki
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Software/Hardware
Entertainment
Online Shopping
General News
Travel

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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#1,229
#6,061
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