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Cloudflare Web Analytics vs Skald comparison

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

Catalog capabilities may require a paid plan, add-on or hosted edition. “Not listed” means unverified here, not unavailable. Confirm the exact edition, usage limits and privacy settings.

Starting prices use different billing periods and usage units. Compare the same traffic, events, retention and seats.

Which platform fits your needs?

Choose Cloudflare Web Analytics if

Site owners who need free, low-complexity traffic and real-user performance metrics rather than event funnels, replay, or product analytics

Capabilities listed only for Cloudflare Web Analytics in this selection

Privacy-first Cookieless Audience insights

Important considerations: It focuses on aggregate traffic and performance metrics. It does not replace event-based product analytics, conversion funnels, session replay, heatmaps, or user-level journeys, and a Cloudflare account is required.

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

Self-hosted Data export

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.

Shared capabilities

Free plan Web analytics

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Attribute Cloudflare Web Analytics Skald
Overview A free, privacy-first web analytics and real-user monitoring service that measures visits, pageviews, page-load performance, and Core Web Vitals without cookies, local storage, fingerprinting, or data sampling.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 Free; non-proxied sites are limited to 10 tracked sites, while proxied Cloudflare sites have no Web Analytics site limitFree 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 Vendor-hosted cloudSelf-hosted and hosted options
Best for Site owners who need free, low-complexity traffic and real-user performance metrics rather than event funnels, replay, or product analyticsSite owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic.
Operator Cloudflare, Inc.
Independent public company		Space-O Technologies
Independent private company
Company base San Francisco, United States · United StatesAhmedabad, Gujarat, India · Other region
Organization scale 5,156 employees · operator, as of 31 Dec 2025at least 140 team members · operator, as of 26 Oct 2026
Recent direction operational reliability
Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability.		platform integration
Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration.
Key features
  • Visits and pageviews
  • Page-load timing
  • Core Web Vitals
  • URL, browser, OS, country, and element filters
  • 100% pageview measurement without sampling
  • Cookieless JavaScript beacon
  • Automatic setup for proxied Cloudflare sites
  • Support for non-proxied sites
  • Server-log traffic classification
  • Optional in-page tracking
  • Search Console and Bing reports
  • Optional AI-answer monitoring with a daily cost cap
Important considerations It focuses on aggregate traffic and performance metrics. It does not replace event-based product analytics, conversion funnels, session replay, heatmaps, or user-level journeys, and a Cloudflare account is required.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 Cloudflare dashboard, Cloudflare Pages, Google Tag ManagerGoogle Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools
Fact check We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09. 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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AttributeCloudflare Web AnalyticsSkald
Audience insights Listed Not listed
Cookieless Listed Not listed
Data export Not listed Listed
Free plan Listed Listed
Privacy-first Listed Not listed
Self-hosted Not listed Listed
Web analytics Listed Listed
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