Fathom Analytics vs Seline (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Seline grades higher than Fathom Analytics: 2.6 against 2.4 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Oct 18, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Fathom Analytics grades higher on ease of use. Seline grades higher on the free plan and features. They get the same grade on value for money and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Fathom Analytics
Cookie-free, privacy-first website analytics priced by pageviews
Seline
Cookieless web analytics with visitor journeys and an AI chat
Which one is for you
Pick Fathom Analytics if
- Fits if you're an agency sending traffic reports to many clients
- Works for bloggers and small businesses who want stats without a cookie banner
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want to try it without handing over a card, as the 7-day trial needs one and renews itself
- Tight if you track lots of custom events, as they eat into your pageview allowance across all sites
- Not for you if you want to host your analytics yourself, which Fathom doesn't offer
- Too light for anyone who wants recordings, funnels or visitor-level data
- Pricey if traffic grows: $60 a month at 1M pageviews, $200 at 10M, and $10 a month per extra pack of 50 sites
Pick Seline if
- Fits if you want one plan with every feature and a pay-by-events price
- Works for small sites that don't want cookies
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if you want free, since there's only a 7-day trial
- Watch out: pricing is per website, though you can link one site to another
- Watch out: pageviews and custom events share one monthly limit
- Pricey if you want setup help, at $99 extra on top of a plan
- Watch out: no mobile or desktop app is listed
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAFathom AnalyticsFair | 2.6GPASelineGood | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | B$12.50 a month billed yearly ($15 monthly) covers up to 100k pageviews, which fits a 10,000-visitor site, across 50 sites. That's inside the cheapest quarter of what this category charges, with every feature on every plan. | B$9 a month for 10,000 events billed monthly, inside the $13 cheaper-quarter line, and $99 at 1,000,000. |
| Free plan and trial | DNo free plan. The 7-day trial needs a card and the plan renews by itself, though Fathom emails you before billing starts. A week is short to judge traffic stats. | C7-day trial with no card needed. No free plan. |
| Features | CPages, referrers, countries, campaigns, events with revenue, Search Console terms and client email reports. It does the page counting job fully, but it's a smaller job than the suites: no recordings, funnels or visitor-level data on record. | BDashboard, journeys, funnels, revenue, AI chat, an API and ad-blocker bypass, all on the one plan. |
| Ease of use | BNo rating on record, but there's nothing to set up beyond a small script, or a plugin for WordPress, Ghost and the like. Everything is on one page. | CNo rating read. A script to install and goals to define. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb only, no desktop or phone app. It works with WordPress, Ghost, Webflow, Next.js and Nuxt, pulls in Search Console and old Google Analytics data, and has an API. | BWeb only, with a public API and an MCP server. |
| Best for | cookie-free stats across lots of client sites | simple cookieless site analytics |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Fathom Analytics and Seline. How we grade
Price against what you get
Fathom Analytics starts at $12.50 a month and scores 2.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Seline starts at $9 a month and scores 2.7.
They score the same, and Seline starts $3.50 a month lower. Of the other website and product analytics tools on the chart, 1 scores higher than Fathom Analytics for less, and none scores higher than Seline for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Seline also covers dashboards.
At a glance
| Fathom Analytics | Seline | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free trial |
| Starts at | $12.50 per month for up to 100k pageviews, billed yearly ($15 billed monthly) | $9 per month for 10,000 events, billed monthly |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 7-day free trial, card required; Fathom emails you before billing starts | 7-day free trial, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Fathom Analytics | Seline Analytics |
| Price read from | usefathom.com | seline.com |
| Checked | Oct 18, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Fathom Analytics
- There is no free plan: the 7-day trial needs a card, then the plan renews automatically.
- Custom events count against the monthly pageview allowance, shared across all your sites.
- Fathom is hosted only and cannot be self-hosted.
- Extra sites beyond those included cost $10 a month or $100 a year per pack of 50.
Seline
- There is no free plan, only a 7-day trial; the vendor says it is funded by subscribers alone.
- Pricing is per website, though one site can be linked to another Pro subscription to share its event limit.
- Pageviews and custom events share one monthly limit, with the price rising as the limit does.
- Done-for-you setup is an extra $99, and a Pro plan is still required afterwards.
Key features
Fathom Analytics
- No cookies or consent banner
- Counts visits without cookies and anonymizes data with hashes and salts, so the vendor says no analytics consent banner is needed. EU visitor data stays in the EU.
- Single-page dashboard
- Pages, referrers, countries, devices and UTM campaigns on one page, in real time, with saved filtered views and milestones marked on the chart.
- Events and revenue
- Tracks sign-ups, form submissions and purchases as events, with a value and currency so sales totals show beside counts.
- Client reports and sharing
- Weekly or monthly email reports covering one or several sites, and dashboards shared publicly or behind a password.
- Google Analytics and Search Console
- Imports historical GA4 data and shows Search Console terms, clicks, impressions and positions beside your traffic.
Seline
- Real-time dashboard
- Referrers, UTMs, pages, countries and devices on one page that updates as visitors arrive.
- Journeys and funnels
- Follow a visitor from the referring link through each page and custom event, and build conversion funnels.
- Profiles and revenue analytics
- Identify users with one call to build per-user profiles; revenue analytics is part of the single plan.
- AI chat and MCP
- Seline AI can query your data, answer questions, create funnels and export CSVs, in the app or through an MCP interface.
- Cookieless tracking
- The roughly 2 KB script sets no cookies; the vendor says no consent banner is needed and the service is GDPR compliant.
- Public API and ad-blocker bypass
- A public API is included, along with an ad-blocker bypass and bot detection, with forever data retention.
Plans
Fathom Analytics
Fathom Analytics$12.50
per month for up to 100k pageviews, billed yearly ($15 billed monthly)
Every feature, 50 sites, events and revenue, email reports, API. Rises with pageviews: $60 a month at 1M and $200 at 10M, billed monthly.
High trafficCustom
High-traffic plans above 25M monthly pageviews, quoted on request. The 25M tier itself is $470 a month, billed monthly.
Seline
Pro$9
per month for up to 10,000 events, billed monthly
The only plan; every feature included. $14 at 25,000 events, $24 at 100,000, $99 at 1,000,000. Yearly billing gives 2 months free.
Ways to pay less
Fathom Analytics
- Annual discount
2 months free with yearly billing
Yearly billing costs 10 times the monthly rate: $150 a year instead of $15 a month at 100,000 pageviews, and $600 instead of $60 a month at 1M.
Seline
- Annual discount
2 months free on yearly billing
The pricing page marks the Yearly option as 2 months free compared with paying monthly.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Fathom Analytics or Seline?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Seline is cheaper to start with: $9 a month, against $12.50 a month for Fathom Analytics. Fathom Analytics starts at $12.50 per month for up to 100k pageviews, billed yearly ($15 billed monthly), and Seline starts at $9 per month for 10,000 events, billed monthly.
Which has a free plan, Fathom Analytics or Seline?
As of Nov 13, 2026, neither Fathom Analytics nor Seline has a free plan. Both have a free trial.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.