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Fathom gives you a simple, cookieless traffic dashboard that it hosts and keeps compliant. You can attach a revenue value to events on every plan. ownlytics connects your payment provider and credits each payment, renewal and refund to the visit that produced it.
| ownlytics | Fathom | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Self-hosted: one-time payment of $49, lifetime updates. Hosted: $9/month for 50,000 events or $19/month for 250,000. | Subscription from $15/month for 100k pageviews and 50+ sites; $25 for 200k, $45 for 500k, $60 for 1M, and up. Custom events count toward pageviews. Yearly gives two months free. |
| Hosting | Self-hosted on your own  Cloudflare account (Cloudflare Workers + D1), installed with one command. Or hosted by us at ownlytics.xyz/app . | Hosted only. EU visitor data is processed in the EU. |
| Revenue |  Stripe,  Polar,  Dodo Payments and  Creem, connected with a key. Past sales import; renewals and refunds follow by webhook. | Events can carry a value and currency, on all plans. No payment-provider integration listed. |
| Cookies | Your choice per site: first-party cookies, cookieless, or cookieless until consent. | Cookieless, no banner. Fathom states GDPR, ePrivacy, PECR and CCPA compliance. |
| Sites | Unlimited websites on every option. Self-hosted has no event limit; hosted plans include 50,000 or 250,000 events a month. | 50+ sites on every plan. |
| Trying it | Live demo on the home page. Self-hosted: no trial, all sales final. Hosted: monthly, cancel anytime. | 7-day trial with a card. No free plan. |
Why sellers pick ownlytics
- Revenue without wiring events. Connect Stripe, Polar, Dodo or Creem per website; payment links are tagged automatically.
- The cost doesn't grow with traffic from us. Unlimited websites and events. Cloudflare's free plan fits most sites; past about 20,000 pageviews a day it's $5/month to Cloudflare. What fits on the free plan.
- Sale pings in
Telegram with the source, plus spike alerts while a post is taking off. - Lifetime value by first source and funnels that end at the payment.
When Fathom is the better choice
- You want a mature hosted service with nothing to install. ownlytics Hosted does that too.
- Cookieless by default and a vendor that states compliance with GDPR, ePrivacy, PECR and CCPA matter more than revenue attribution.
- Your site doesn't sell anything, or not through Stripe, Polar, Dodo or Creem.
- You want shared dashboards and email reports out of the box.
Competitor details as of October 2026, from their public pages: usefathom.com pricing, features. Prices and plans change; check the source before you decide. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we'll fix it.
Ask your AI agent, too
Every ownlytics install has a built-in MCP server. One command connects Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf or VS Code, and your agent answers "which post made me money?" from your own data. The same numbers are in your terminal and behind read-only API keys.
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user ownlytics https://ownlytics.xyz/api/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer dbk_YOUR_KEY"