| Overview |
A privacy-focused hosted analytics product that keeps reporting intentionally simple while still supporting event tracking, ecommerce measurement, exports, and fast lightweight scripts. | 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 |
Hosted plans start at $15/month for 100,000 monthly pageviews; no free plan; 7-day free trial | 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 |
Individuals and businesses seeking simple, privacy-focused analytics | Site owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic. |
| Operator |
Conva Ventures Inc.
Independent private company | Space-O Technologies
Independent private company |
| Company base |
Canada · Canada | 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 |
privacy-focused analytics
Recent official evidence shows a focus on privacy-focused analytics. | platform integration
Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration. |
| Key features |
- Cookieless traffic analytics
- Real-time dashboard
- Events and ecommerce
- UTM campaign reporting
- Email reports
- Unlimited exports
- Analytics API
- Forever data retention
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- Server-log traffic classification
- Optional in-page tracking
- Search Console and Bing reports
- Optional AI-answer monitoring with a daily cost cap
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| Important considerations |
No free plan is offered after the 7-day trial; pricing scales with combined pageviews and events. | 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 |
WordPress, Shopify | 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. |
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