
Monthly cost
$14+ / mo
$14+/mo 100k pageviews
Popularity
3/5
LLM knowledge
3/5
Difficulty
Easy
#low-cost
What Fathom is good at
Strengths
- +No cookies
- +Fast script
- +Simple dashboard
Tradeoffs
- −Paid only
- −Fewer features than GA
Coding-agent prompt
Drop into Claude / Cursor to get idiomatic Fathom code.
You're working with Fathom. Privacy-first analytics with a simple UI. Best practices: - Lean on: no cookies - Lean on: fast script - Lean on: simple dashboard Things to watch for: - Watch out for: paid only - Watch out for: fewer features than ga General guidance: - Canonical docs: https://usefathom.com — check here before inventing APIs. - Keep secrets in environment variables, never commit them. - Write TypeScript where the ecosystem supports it; add types to every exported function. - Add tests for the critical paths before declaring the task done. - Read-the-docs is usually faster than guessing — cite the docs page in code comments when you apply a non-obvious pattern.
Beginner's guide to Fathom
In one line: Privacy-first analytics with a clean dashboard.
Like Plausible — simple, fast, GDPR-friendly. Pick whichever you prefer.
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