PostDeploy as a Fathom Analytics alternative
Fathom answers what happened on the site, from $15 a month with no free plan. PostDeploy Indie is $5 a month and covers analytics plus uptime checks, cron heartbeats and error tracking, with a 30-day trial at Pro size first.
What Fathom Analytics sells
Fathom Analytics sells privacy-first, cookieless website analytics with one simple dashboard, as a Google Analytics alternative, priced by monthly pageviews.
Side by side, before you commit
Their published free tier against what you get on PostDeploy, because that is where the decision starts.
| Fathom Analytics | PostDeploy | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $15 a month, 100,000 pageviews | $5 a month after the trial |
| Sites or projects | 50 sites on every plan | 3 on Indie |
| Cookieless, no consent banner | Yes | Yes |
| Uptime and API monitors | Not offered | 20 on Indie |
| Cron job monitoring | Not offered | 20 on Indie |
| Error tracking | Not offered | 10,000 events a month free |
Why people look for a Fathom Analytics alternative
There is no free plan; Fathom's own pricing FAQ says so. The smallest plan is $15 a month after a 7-day trial.
Analytics is the only pillar. Uptime, cron monitoring and error tracking still need their own tools and invoices.
$15 a month buys analytics alone. A few dollars more buys the same project uptime checks, cron heartbeats and error tracking too.
What Fathom Analytics does well
Fathom includes 50 sites and keeps your analytics history forever on every plan, well past the PostDeploy project counts and retention windows.
Where PostDeploy is different
A 30-day free trial with no credit card. It runs at Pro size, and Indie keeps 100,000 analytics events a month afterwards.
Coverage per dollar. Indie is $5 a month and adds uptime checks, cron heartbeats and error tracking to the analytics, on the same projects.
One login for the whole project: visitor numbers, uptime history and the error feed describe the same project.
Privacy without a banner, same as Fathom: no cookies, no raw IP stored, and a visitor hash whose salt rotates daily.
What switching gets you
Try PostDeploy if
- You want analytics for a side project without starting a paid plan on day one.
- You are about to add an uptime monitor or a cron watchdog as a second subscription.
- You want one flat bill for the whole project instead of one per tool.
What moving actually costs
- 1 Swap the script tag: remove Fathom's snippet and add the PostDeploy analytics script per project.
- 2 Custom events need re-wiring per event name. On both tools custom events count against the same event allowance as pageviews.
- 3 Historical stats do not transfer. Keep the old dashboard available during the overlap if you need continuity.
- 4 Then 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 Indie includes 100,000 analytics events 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 on the same plan and the same projects. Fathom is analytics only.
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