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PostDeploy as a Fathom Analytics alternative

Fathom sells analytics alone, from $15 a month, with no free plan and a seven-day trial. PostDeploy is $29 a month and covers analytics plus uptime checks, cron heartbeats and error tracking, after 14 free days with no card. One package, four jobs. Switch to PostDeploy.

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Fathom Analytics against PostDeploy

Their entry plan, line by line, against the package that also runs your error tracking and analytics.

Entry price
Fathom Analytics
$15 a month, 100,000 pageviews
PostDeploy
$29 a month after the trial
Cookieless, no consent banner
Fathom Analytics
Yes
PostDeploy
Yes
Uptime and API monitors
Fathom Analytics
Not offered
PostDeploy
100 in the package
Cron job monitoring
Fathom Analytics
Not offered
PostDeploy
200 in the package
Error tracking
Fathom Analytics
Not offered
PostDeploy
50,000 events a month in the package

Pricing, tier by tier

Fathom's slider starts at $15 a month for 100,000 pageviews and reads $45 at 500,000. Custom events count against the same pageview number, so instrumenting more of your app moves the slider. Fathom's pricing FAQ confirms there is no free plan, only a seven-day trial.

PostDeploy is $29 a month for 500,000 analytics events across 10 projects, and carries 100 uptime monitors, 200 cron jobs and 50,000 error events too, after 14 free days with no card.

A team doing 500,000 pageviews reads $45 on that meter, for analytics. PostDeploy is $29 a month: 500,000 analytics events, 100 uptime monitors, 200 cron jobs, 50,000 error events and 5 seats across 10 projects.

A pageview meter bills your best week

A pageview meter makes your best week your most expensive one. The launch lands, the post does numbers, the bill follows. Custom events push the same number up, so the team that tracks its signups pays for the diligence.

PostDeploy prices per organisation instead: one flat package, and reaching an allowance never adds a line to the invoice.

The analytics covers pageviews, top pages, referrers and named custom events, without cookies or a banner. The rest of the package is what a pageview meter never sells you: checks for when the site stops answering, an incident the moment a job reports a failure, and the error feed for the same project.

Move off Fathom Analytics

Each step happens once. Your agent recreates the checks through MCP, and the 14-day trial covers the move.

  1. 1 Swap the script tag: remove Fathom's snippet and add the PostDeploy analytics script per project.
  2. 2 Re-wire custom events per event name. On both tools custom events count against the same allowance as pageviews.
  3. 3 Point the rest of the project at the same login: uptime checks for the URLs and one curl line per scheduled job.

Questions

Does Fathom Analytics have a free plan?

No. Fathom's pricing FAQ states there is no free option; plans start at $15 a month after a 7-day trial. PostDeploy gives you 14 free days with no card, then $29 a month.

Is PostDeploy analytics cookieless like Fathom?

Yes. No cookies, no raw IP stored, no persistent visitor identifier, so analytics needs no consent banner.

What does PostDeploy add over Fathom for the price?

Uptime and API checks, cron heartbeat monitoring and error tracking in the same package and the same projects. Fathom sells analytics only.

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