Crazy Egg vs Skald comparison

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

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

Which platform fits your needs?

Choose Crazy Egg if

Marketers, CRO teams, and site owners who want heatmaps, replay, feedback, and testing in one service

Capabilities listed only for Crazy Egg in this selection

Real-time data E-commerce tracking Event tracking Behavior analytics Funnels Error tracking Audience insights User segments Session recordings Heatmaps User feedback Surveys A/B testing Goals Integrations Custom reports AI insights Personalization Enterprise

Important considerations: No permanent free plan. Tracked pageviews, heatmap reports, recording quotas and retention differ by tier. Starter stores recordings for six months; higher plans list two years. Larger custom Enterprise plans are also available.

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 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.

Shared capabilities

Data export

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Attribute	Crazy Egg	Skald
Overview	A website optimization suite combining web analytics, live activity, heatmaps, session recordings, error tracking, funnels, surveys, A/B testing, conversion tools, and AI-assisted analysis.	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	Starter $29/month: 5,000 tracked pageviews and 50 recordings; Plus $99, Pro $249 and Enterprise $599/month. All prices require annual billing; a free trial is available.	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	Vendor-hosted cloud	Self-hosted and hosted options
Best for	Marketers, CRO teams, and site owners who want heatmaps, replay, feedback, and testing in one service	Site owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic.
Operator	Crazy Egg, Inc. Independent private company	Space-O Technologies Independent private company
Company base	Redwood City, United States · United States	Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · Other region
Organization scale	No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed.	at least 140 team members · operator, as of 26 Oct 2026
Recent direction	experimentation and optimization Recent official evidence shows a focus on experimentation and optimization.	platform integration Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration.
Key features	Web analytics and live activity Heatmap reports Session recordings Error tracking Conversion funnels A/B testing Surveys AI analysis GA4 integration Unlimited domains and team members	Server-log traffic classification Optional in-page tracking Search Console and Bing reports Optional AI-answer monitoring with a daily cost cap
Important considerations	No permanent free plan. Tracked pageviews, heatmap reports, recording quotas and retention differ by tier. Starter stores recordings for six months; higher plans list two years. Larger custom Enterprise plans are also available.	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	Google Analytics 4, Shopify, WordPress, Google Tag Manager	Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools
Fact check	We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30.	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	Crazy Egg	Skald
A/B testing	Listed	Not listed
AI insights	Listed	Not listed
Audience insights	Listed	Not listed
Behavior analytics	Listed	Not listed
Custom reports	Listed	Not listed
Data export	Listed	Listed
E-commerce tracking	Listed	Not listed
Enterprise	Listed	Not listed
Error tracking	Listed	Not listed
Event tracking	Listed	Not listed
Free plan	Not listed	Listed
Funnels	Listed	Not listed
Goals	Listed	Not listed
Heatmaps	Listed	Not listed
Integrations	Listed	Not listed
Personalization	Listed	Not listed
Real-time data	Listed	Not listed
Self-hosted	Not listed	Listed
Session recordings	Listed	Not listed
Surveys	Listed	Not listed
User feedback	Listed	Not listed
User segments	Listed	Not listed
Web analytics	Not listed	Listed

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