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Choose Offen Fair Web Analytics ifTeams that value visitor access to their own analytics data and accept measuring only people who opt in.
Important considerations: Uses first-party cookies after opt-in; it is not cookieless. Data expires after six months. Public releases last recorded here are from May 2024; assess maintenance and security before adoption.
Choose Skald ifSite owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic.
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 | Offen Fair Web Analytics | Skald |
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| Overview | A self-hosted analytics project built around explicit visitor consent and end-to-end encrypted usage data. Visitors can inspect and delete their own data; operators get aggregate traffic reports. | 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 Apache-2.0-licensed software; hosting and operational work are separate costs. | 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 | Teams that value visitor access to their own analytics data and accept measuring only people who opt in. | Site owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic. |
| Operator | Offen project Independent project | Space-O Technologies Independent private company |
| Company base | Berlin, Germany · European Union | 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 | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. | platform integration Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration. |
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| Important considerations | Uses first-party cookies after opt-in; it is not cookieless. Data expires after six months. Public releases last recorded here are from May 2024; assess maintenance and security before adoption. | 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 | JavaScript, Docker | 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. |
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 | Offen Fair Web Analytics | Skald |
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| Data export | Not listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Listed | Not listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Open source | Listed | Not listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Not listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Listed |