OpenReplay 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 OpenReplay if

Engineering and product teams that need self-hosted replay, debugging context, and product analytics

Capabilities listed only for OpenReplay in this selection

Privacy-first Open source GDPR compliant CCPA compliant App analytics Event tracking Behavior analytics Funnels Error tracking Audience insights User segments Session recordings Heatmaps Data ownership Integrations AI insights Enterprise

Important considerations: Cloud Free includes 2 users, 1 project, and 7-day retention. Paid Serverless includes unlimited users and projects with 30-day retention. Self-hosting requires your own infrastructure; Dedicated costs depend on the instance, region, and running time.

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

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

Self-hosted Free plan Data export

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Attribute	OpenReplay	Skald
Overview	An open-source session replay and product analytics platform that can run on your infrastructure, combining replays with errors, network activity, performance data, funnels, journeys, heatmaps, web analytics, and co-browsing.	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	Open-source self-hosting is free. Cloud Free: 1,000 sessions/month; Serverless: $5.95 per 1,000 sessions/month; Dedicated: from $199/month, billed hourly; Enterprise: custom.	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	Engineering and product teams that need self-hosted replay, debugging context, and product analytics	Site owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic.
Operator	Asayer SAS Independent private company	Space-O Technologies Independent private company
Company base	Distributed organization	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	product analytics Recent official evidence shows a focus on product analytics.	platform integration Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration.
Key features	Self-hosted session replay Product and web analytics Error, network, and performance context Funnels and journeys Heatmaps Co-browsing Web and mobile capture Data export MCP server	Server-log traffic classification Optional in-page tracking Search Console and Bing reports Optional AI-answer monitoring with a daily cost cap
Important considerations	Cloud Free includes 2 users, 1 project, and 7-day retention. Paid Serverless includes unlimited users and projects with 30-day retention. Self-hosting requires your own infrastructure; Dedicated costs depend on the instance, region, and running time.	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	GitHub, Jira, Slack, Sentry, Datadog	Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools
Fact check	We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-04.	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	OpenReplay	Skald
AI insights	Listed	Not listed
App analytics	Listed	Not listed
Audience insights	Listed	Not listed
Behavior analytics	Listed	Not listed
CCPA compliant	Listed	Not listed
Data export	Listed	Listed
Data ownership	Listed	Not listed
Enterprise	Listed	Not listed
Error tracking	Listed	Not listed
Event tracking	Listed	Not listed
Free plan	Listed	Listed
Funnels	Listed	Not listed
GDPR compliant	Listed	Not listed
Heatmaps	Listed	Not listed
Integrations	Listed	Not listed
Open source	Listed	Not listed
Privacy-first	Listed	Not listed
Self-hosted	Listed	Listed
Session recordings	Listed	Not listed
User segments	Listed	Not listed
Web analytics	Not listed	Listed

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