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What Fathom really costs at your usage

Fathom priced at YOUR usage from verified pricing pages — no free tier — paid from day one. See the free-tier ceiling, the per-unit overage, and exactly when it starts costing real money.

Prices verified 2026-07-17 against official pricing pages · fit weights are our estimates (see methodology) · share the URL to share your configuration

As of Jul 2026, with 5,000,000 tracked events/month, a $50 budget for this slot, Fathom ranks first for these inputs at 27% fit and a StackSays-estimated $140.00/month. Fit weights are our estimates; prices trace to official pages. Change any input below and the verdict recomputes.

Your situation

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Events or pageviews / month (thousands)500 = 500,000; pageview-billed vendors (Plausible/Fathom) count pageviews, event-billed ones count every eventBudget for this slot ($/mo)what you'd accept paying for the analytics platform layerTeam size1 = solo; bundled platforms save glue time for small teams

Clear pick for your inputs

Fathomfit 27% · est $140.00/mo

Pageview-billed flat tiers with forever data retention; no free tier ever, on principle

Fathomfit 27%

$140.00/mo

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The decision, in plain words

For a solo builder at 5,000,000 tracked events/month and a $50.00/mo budget for the analytics platform slot, Fathom leads at 27% fit and $140.00/mo. The two rules doing the work: ecosystem maturity (established — our estimate from ecosystem age, docs and hiring pool); batteries included (Analytics platform only — you assemble the rest separately).

Honest weak spot of the pick: ~$140/mo is 280% of your $50/mo budget — over it.

Generated from the calculation above — every number traces to the sourced data; nothing here is written by an AI making things up.

Why Fathom scores 27%

Budget fit (weight 30, our estimate) — ~$140/mo is 280% of your $50/mo budget — over it-30

Batteries included (weight 12, our estimate) — Analytics platform only — you assemble the rest separately+0

Exit cost (weight 4, our estimate) — Proprietary SaaS — historical analytics rarely survive a migration-1.6

Ecosystem maturity (weight 8, our estimate) — established — our estimate from ecosystem age, docs and hiring pool+8

Free-tier runway (weight 10, our estimate) — No free tier — paying from day one-6

Total (lines sum exactly)-29.6

Possible range −64…+64 (sum of active rule weights) · fit % = (total + max) / (2 × max)(-29.6 + 64) / 128 = 27%

How the $140.00/mo estimate is calculated

5M base$140.00

Monthly total (lines sum exactly)$140.00

What could change this verdict

No single input change within the tested range changes the winner.

Cost risk

Estimated now (StackSays estimate, not your final bill)$140.00/mo · 5M

Free-tier statusNo free tier — paid from the first unit

Official prices verified 2026-07-17; calculation is deterministic code over those prices.

At a glance

Tool	Free tier	Paid entry	Verified
Fathom	No free tier	100K $15/mo	2026-07-17

Where did you land?anonymous, one click

Data sources

Tool	Source	Verified
Fathom	Fathom pricing (all brackets read live)	2026-07-17

A monitor re-checks these pages for changes; when a vendor moves a price, the date updates and every verdict recomputes.

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