Beam vs Beam Analytics (beamanalytics.io)

Where Beam Analytics Was Genuinely Better

The free tier. beamanalytics.io gave away 100,000 pageviews per month at no cost — double Beam's 50,000. If you picked beamanalytics.io because the free ceiling was high enough that you never needed to pay, moving to Beam means either staying under a lower free limit or paying $5/month for the Pro plan. That is a real downgrade for a subset of users, and it is worth saying plainly rather than burying.

It also had a head start on brand recognition in the privacy analytics niche, and a community of users who were happy with it. The product was not abandoned for lack of quality — the team chose to wind it down.

Where Beam Has the Edge

The decisive one is that Beam is still here. beamanalytics.io stopped collecting on September 1, 2026, so every day the old script stays in your templates is a day of traffic recorded nowhere at all. If you have not swapped it out yet, that gap is already running.

Beyond that, Beam covers the same cookieless, no-consent-banner ground and adds the analysis layer: goals and conversion tracking, traffic channel classification, rule-based insight summaries, weekly digest emails, anomaly alerts, a REST API, and an optional public dashboard you can share. The whole stack runs on Cloudflare's edge network, so there is no server to operate and the script stays under 2 KB.

Pricing is flat and predictable: free for one site up to 50K pageviews per month, or $5/month for unlimited sites and 500K pageviews per month.

What Beam Does Not Replace

Beam cannot import beamanalytics.io's export format. CSV import supports Plausible and Fathom daily traffic exports today, so a beamanalytics.io export you saved before the shutdown stays an archived file rather than becoming history in the Beam dashboard. If you still have that file, get in touch — a sample export is what it would take to build an importer for it. Beam also has no session replay, no funnel analysis, no custom script domain to dodge ad blockers, and no enterprise SSO or team management — it is built for indie makers and small teams.

If any of those are hard requirements, evaluate Plausible, Fathom, Umami, or Rybbit before you commit. The shutdown migration options guide compares all of them side by side.

Which Should You Choose?

There is no live choice to make between these two. If beamanalytics.io is still in your templates it is collecting nothing, so the only question is what replaces it. Whether its dashboard is still reachable for a late export is worth checking directly — but do not wait on that to install a replacement, because until you do, no tool is recording your traffic.

Choose Beam if you liked the beamanalytics.io approach — cookieless, lightweight, no consent banner, simple traffic metrics — and want the closest available landing spot with a bit more analysis on top. The step-by-step migration guide takes about 15 minutes end to end.