Lucky Orange 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 Lucky Orange if

SMBs and e-commerce teams needing qualitative and real-time visitor insights

Capabilities listed only for Lucky Orange in this selection

Real-time data E-commerce tracking Event tracking Behavior analytics Funnels Revenue tracking Audience insights User segments User feedback Surveys Session recordings Heatmaps Goals Integrations Custom reports AI insights

Important considerations: There is no permanent free plan; pricing scales with monthly sessions, while longer storage and Discovery AI can cost extra.

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	Lucky Orange	Skald
Overview	A real-time behavior analytics suite offering session recordings, dynamic heatmaps, conversion funnels, live chat, and surveys—all features included in every plan.	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	7-day free trial; Build costs $39/month or $32/month billed yearly; Grow, Expand, Scale, and custom Enterprise tiers raise session limits	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	SMBs and e-commerce teams needing qualitative and real-time visitor insights	Site owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic.
Operator	Lucky Orange, LLC Independent private company	Space-O Technologies Independent private company
Company base	Overland Park, 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	AI-assisted analysis Recent official evidence shows a focus on AI-assisted analysis.	platform integration Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration.
Key features	Session replay Dynamic heatmaps Conversion funnels Page and form analytics Live chat Surveys and announcements Live visitor view Custom segmentation Discovery AI add-on	Server-log traffic classification Optional in-page tracking Search Console and Bing reports Optional AI-answer monitoring with a daily cost cap
Important considerations	There is no permanent free plan; pricing scales with monthly sessions, while longer storage and Discovery AI can cost extra.	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	Shopify, WordPress, HubSpot, Zapier, BigCommerce	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	Lucky Orange	Skald
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
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
Real-time data	Listed	Not listed
Revenue tracking	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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