Fathom is a respected, privacy-first analytics product — cookieless, exact, and easy on the eye. analyticshq shares those foundations and adds open source, full data ownership in your own PostgreSQL, and a country-only geo line that never moves.

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analyticshq vs Fathom

Two cookieless tools. One you can host yourself.

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Fathom vs analyticshq

Point for point.

Source Closed-source SaaS Open source, and you can read every line.

Where your data lives Fathom’s infrastructure, reports handed back to you Your own PostgreSQL — you hold the raw events, not just charts.

Geography City-level location Country-only, on purpose — a stricter privacy line.

Cookies and consent Cookieless, no banner Cookieless, no banner — same footing here.

Revenue tracking Per-event value with currency Goals and events today; per-event revenue on the roadmap.

Hosting and EU Managed SaaS with EU Isolation for EU visitors Self-host anywhere, or run it in the region you choose.

Ecosystem Polished single-dashboard product Native to the Stacks toolchain and your own stack.

Where analyticshq goes further.

Own the data, not just the dashboard

Fathom is a well-built closed SaaS — you get clean reports, but the raw events live on their servers. analyticshq writes every event to a PostgreSQL database you control, so the underlying data is yours to query, export, or keep.

Country-only, held on principle

Fathom resolves visitors to city level. analyticshq deliberately stops at country, from your CDN edge headers, keeping the aggregate-only line as strict as it goes.

Open and self-hostable

Read the source, run it on your own infrastructure, and audit exactly what is collected. Fathom’s EU Isolation and per-event revenue are genuinely strong; analyticshq trades that polish for openness and full data ownership.

Open

Source you can read and self-host, versus a closed SaaS.

Country-only

Geo stops at country by design — stricter than city-level.

Your DB

Raw events land in your PostgreSQL, not a vendor’s.

Cookieless, exact, and yours to host.

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