Open 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 Open Analytics if

Privacy-focused product, marketing, and development teams that want open web analytics with revenue attribution and AI-agent access

Capabilities listed only for Open Analytics in this selection

Privacy-first Open source Cookieless GDPR compliant Real-time data E-commerce tracking Event tracking Behavior analytics Funnels Revenue tracking Audience insights Goals Data ownership Integrations AI insights Retention analytics

Important considerations: The hosted service has no free plan. Self-hosting needs Linux, Docker, four DNS records, about 4 GB of RAM, and 25 GB of disk; published images are amd64. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control traffic is intentionally not recorded.

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

Free plan

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

Self-hosted Data export Web analytics

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Attribute	Open Analytics	Skald
Overview	An open-source, privacy-first web analytics platform available as a hosted cloud service or self-hosted AGPL-3.0 software, with cookieless traffic reporting, realtime data, funnels, visitor journeys, retention, revenue attribution, Web Vitals, exports, AI analysis, and MCP access.	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	AGPL-3.0 self-hosting has no license fee. Hosted monthly plans: Starter $9 for 50,000 events and 1 site; Growth $19 for 500,000 events and 5 sites; Pro $49 for 5 million events and 10 sites. No hosted free plan.	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 and hosted options	Self-hosted and hosted options
Best for	Privacy-focused product, marketing, and development teams that want open web analytics with revenue attribution and AI-agent access	Site owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic.
Operator	AGHAZADA LLC Independent private company	Space-O Technologies Independent private company
Company base	New Mexico, 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	marketing attribution Recent official evidence shows a focus on marketing attribution.	platform integration Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration.
Key features	Cookieless web analytics Hosted cloud or AGPL self-hosting Realtime dashboard and live globe Custom events and funnels Visitor journeys and retention Stripe revenue attribution Campaign and UTM reporting Core Web Vitals Public dashboards and embeds Data import and export AI assistant, MCP server, and CLI	Server-log traffic classification Optional in-page tracking Search Console and Bing reports Optional AI-answer monitoring with a daily cost cap
Important considerations	The hosted service has no free plan. Self-hosting needs Linux, Docker, four DNS records, about 4 GB of RAM, and 25 GB of disk; published images are amd64. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control traffic is intentionally not recorded.	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	Stripe, Plausible, Fathom	Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools
Fact check	We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-27.	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	Open Analytics	Skald
AI insights	Listed	Not listed
Audience insights	Listed	Not listed
Behavior analytics	Listed	Not listed
Cookieless	Listed	Not listed
Data export	Listed	Listed
Data ownership	Listed	Not listed
E-commerce tracking	Listed	Not listed
Event tracking	Listed	Not listed
Free plan	Not listed	Listed
Funnels	Listed	Not listed
GDPR compliant	Listed	Not listed
Goals	Listed	Not listed
Integrations	Listed	Not listed
Open source	Listed	Not listed
Privacy-first	Listed	Not listed
Real-time data	Listed	Not listed
Retention analytics	Listed	Not listed
Revenue tracking	Listed	Not listed
Self-hosted	Listed	Listed
Web analytics	Listed	Listed

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