66analytics vs Skald comparison

Compare pricing, deployment, product fit, integrations, and capabilities side by side.

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Which platform fits your needs?

Choose 66analytics if

Site owners, developers, and agencies that want inexpensive self-hosted analytics or a white-label analytics service

Capabilities listed only for 66analytics in this selection

Privacy-first Cookieless GDPR compliant CCPA compliant Real-time data Event tracking Behavior analytics Goals Audience insights User segments Session recordings Heatmaps Data ownership Integrations Custom reports

Important considerations: This is commercial source-available software, not an OSI open-source project. You operate PHP, MySQL, security, storage, backups, and privacy settings; SaaS resale requires the Extended license.

Choose Skald if

Site owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic.

Capabilities listed only for Skald in this selection

Free plan Web analytics

Important considerations: Source-available, not OSI open source. Optional browser tracking adds in-page signals. AI-answer monitoring uses your provider keys and paid API samples; it does not reproduce what every app user sees. No verified hosted data-region claim.

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Attribute	66analytics	Skald
Overview	Commercial self-hosted web analytics software for PHP and MySQL that combines cookieless traffic reports, goals, visitor profiles, session replay, heatmaps, teams, and optional white-label SaaS controls.	Skald analyses web-server logs to distinguish visitors, AI assistants and crawlers. It is free to self-host under Elastic License 2.0, with paid hosted plans and a 30-day trial.
Pricing	One-time licenses: Regular $49 for personal use and Extended $319 for operating a SaaS; source code, future updates, and six months of support are included	Free self-hosting. Hosted Starter: $9/month or $86/year for 1 site, 1 million requests/month and 3 team members; 30-day free trial. Requests include assets and bots, not just page views. Server costs and optional AI-provider API charges are separate.
Deployment	Self-hosted	Self-hosted and hosted options
Best for	Site owners, developers, and agencies that want inexpensive self-hosted analytics or a white-label analytics service	Site owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic.
Operator	66analytics Independent project	Space-O Technologies Independent private company
Company base	Distributed organization	Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · Other region
Organization scale	1 team members · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026	at least 140 team members · operator, as of 26 Oct 2026
Recent direction	self-hosted expansion Recent official evidence shows a focus on self-hosted expansion.	platform integration Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration.
Key features	Self-hosted PHP and MySQL Cookieless lightweight tracking Real-time analytics Goals and custom events Visitor profiles and sessions Session replay Click and scroll heatmaps Teams and shared reports CSV, JSON, and PDF export White-label SaaS controls	Server-log traffic classification Optional in-page tracking Search Console and Bing reports Optional AI-answer monitoring with a daily cost cap
Important considerations	This is commercial source-available software, not an OSI open-source project. You operate PHP, MySQL, security, storage, backups, and privacy settings; SaaS resale requires the Extended license.	Source-available, not OSI open source. Optional browser tracking adds in-page signals. AI-answer monitoring uses your provider keys and paid API samples; it does not reproduce what every app user sees. No verified hosted data-region claim.
Integrations	REST API, Webhooks, WordPress, Stripe, PayPal	Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools
Fact check	We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08.	We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-10-26.

Capability matrix

This matrix shows capabilities recorded in our catalog. Not listed means we have not confirmed the capability here. Check the linked vendor sources for plan, deployment, and usage limits.

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Attribute	66analytics	Skald
Audience insights	Listed	Not listed
Behavior analytics	Listed	Not listed
CCPA compliant	Listed	Not listed
Cookieless	Listed	Not listed
Custom reports	Listed	Not listed
Data export	Listed	Listed
Data ownership	Listed	Not listed
Event tracking	Listed	Not listed
Free plan	Not listed	Listed
GDPR compliant	Listed	Not listed
Goals	Listed	Not listed
Heatmaps	Listed	Not listed
Integrations	Listed	Not listed
Privacy-first	Listed	Not listed
Real-time data	Listed	Not listed
Self-hosted	Listed	Listed
Session recordings	Listed	Not listed
User segments	Listed	Not listed
Web analytics	Not listed	Listed

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