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Fathom vs Umami - Comparison 2025

Fathom vs. Umami

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Reviewed by Camin McCluskey

Stackfix Co-Founder & CTO

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In comparing these privacy-focused analytics tools, Umami emerges as the more versatile option with its blend of web and product analytics features, while Fathom excels in simplicity and ease of use.

Umami is better suited to growing businesses needing deeper user behavior insights through features like cohort analysis and user journey mapping, along with its superior interface design. Fathom, on the other hand, is ideal for small businesses and teams prioritizing quick implementation and straightforward web analytics with excellent documentation support. Both tools offer similar core web analytics capabilities, but their distinct approaches cater to different business needs and technical requirements.

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Advantages of Fathom

Fathom has better customer support documentation than Umami
Compared to Umami's basic documentation, Fathom offers more detailed and well-organized developer documentation with robust search functionality, making it easier for teams to find solutions and implement the tool effectively.
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Advantages of Umami

Umami has superior look and feel compared to Fathom
While both tools are well-designed, Umami's clean and modern aesthetic stands out above Fathom's darker interface. During testing, we found Umami's interface to be particularly snappy and responsive, making it more pleasant for teams who spend significant time analyzing data.
Umami offers more advanced analytics features than Fathom
Unlike Fathom's basic web analytics, Umami provides additional product analytics capabilities including cohort retention analysis and user journey mapping. This makes it more valuable for teams needing deeper insights into user behavior patterns.

Fathom is best for

  • Businesses with basic web analytics needs seeking a privacy-focused, lightweight Google Analytics alternative
  • Who need a clean, modern interface that's quick to master
  • And/or who need robust privacy compliance with GDPR and SOC 2 Type II certification

Umami is best for

  • Businesses with basic analytics needs seeking a clean, simple hybrid web/product analytics solution
  • Who need basic product analytics capabilities like cohort analysis and user journey mapping
  • And/or who need a tool that's quick to implement with minimal setup complexity

Fathom is less good for

  • Businesses with complex product analytics requirements needing features like heatmaps, session replays, or funnel analysis
  • Who need extensive dashboard customization and reporting capabilities beyond basic web analytics
  • And/or who need advanced data warehouse integrations like BigQuery or Snowflake

Umami is less good for

  • Businesses with complex product analytics needs requiring automatic event capture and advanced behavioral tracking
  • Who need extensive data warehouse integrations and third-party tool connectivity
  • And/or who need enterprise-grade security certifications and persistent cross-session user tracking

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Pricing, features & ratings

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Fathom

Starting at

$15

Billed monthly

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Umami

Starting at

$0

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Stackfix Verdict
Functionality
3

Functionality

3/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Fathom is a lightweight web analytics tool. It covers all the essentials for this time of product including real time page view and visitor data, referral source tracking and basic traffic segmentation. However, you'll not find any powerful product analytics functionality like heatmaps or session recordings. Additionally, its self-hosted variant lacks even more features than the cloud hosted option.</span></p>
5

Functionality

5/10

<p>As simple web analytics tools go, we were pleasantly surprised by Umami's range of functionality. Not only does it offer the fundamentals of web analytics - page views, referral source tracking and visitor segmentation data - but it also offers some product analytics too such as cohort retention data and user journey mapping.</p>
Ease of Use
8

Ease of Use

8/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Given its limited feature set and beautiful design, Fathom is particularly easy to use. It would take an average SMB employee less than 20 minutes to master its use.</span></p>
8

Ease of Use

8/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Given its limited feature set and beautiful design, Umami is particularly easy to use. It would take an average SMB employee less than 20 minutes to master its use.</span></p>
Look and feel
7

Look and feel

7/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Fathom is a well designed analytics tool. Its aesthetic is clean and modern, albeit a bit dark. Additionally, when tested we found page load time to be snappy and responsive (&lt;1s).</span></p>
8

Look and feel

8/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Umami is a very well design analytics tool. Its aesthetic is clean and modern. Additionally, when tested we found page load time to be snappy and responsive (&lt;1s).</span></p>
Customisability
3

Customisability

3/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Beyond custom events, Fathom offers limited scope for customization. We would like to have seen more options to tweak the dashboard itself and change how data is visualized.</span></p>
4

Customisability

4/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Beyond custom events and some product analytics report creation, Umami offers limited scope for customization. We would like to have seen more options to tweak the main dashboard itself and change how data is visualized.</span></p>
Ease of Setup
5

Ease of Setup

5/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Like most web analytics products, Plausible was also very simple to implement - requiring only a simple script. Additionally, it offers a self-serve free trial. However, we did find the lack of any free tier frustrating, meaning you'll need to completely delete your account if you don't want to pay.</span></p>
7

Ease of Setup

7/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Like most web analytics products, Umami was also very simple to implement - requiring only a simple script. Additionally, it offers a self-serve free trial. Given the lack of complex functionality, there's little to set up in terms of additional customization either.</span></p>
Customer Support
7

Customer Support

7/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Fathoms developer documentation is well laid out, easy to digest and detailed. It also offers very strong search functionality too.</span></p>
6

Customer Support

6/10

<p>Umami offers fairly robust developer documentation that is simple and easy to digest. We appreciate the clarity of its layout. However, we would have appreciated better documentation search being implemented.</p>
Integratability
4

Integratability

4/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Fathom offers a robust and well documented API through which you can interact with data programatically. However, it offers little to no integrations beyond this.</span></p>
3

Integratability

3/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Umami offers a fairly robust API through which you can interact with data programatically. However, it offers little to no integrations beyond this.</span></p>
Ease of Migration
6

Ease of Migration

6/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Fathom offers self-serve export functionality for key datapoints via its web app. Additionally, its API is robust and allows business to access datapoints programatically.</span></p>
6

Ease of Migration

6/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Umami offers self-serve export functionality for key datapoints via its web app. Additionally, its API is robust and allows business to access datapoints programatically.</span></p>
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