Pirsch 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 Pirsch Analytics if

Privacy-conscious site owners, SaaS teams, and agencies that need compact traffic and conversion analytics without session replay

Capabilities listed only for Pirsch Analytics in this selection

Privacy-first Open source Cookieless GDPR compliant Real-time data E-commerce tracking Event tracking Behavior analytics Funnels Revenue tracking User segments A/B testing Goals Data ownership Integrations Custom reports Enterprise SEO research

Important considerations: There is no permanent cloud free plan. Self-hosting is an Enterprise license rather than the standard open-source deployment path, and pageviews, events, and session extensions count toward usage.

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	Pirsch Analytics	Skald
Overview	A privacy-friendly web analytics service with cookieless visitor measurement, events, goals, session analysis, funnels, revenue metrics, Search Console data, A/B testing, APIs, and an Enterprise self-hosting option.	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	30-day trial; Standard starts at $6/month and Plus at $12/month for 10,000 monthly pageviews; Enterprise and self-hosted deployment use custom pricing	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-conscious site owners, SaaS teams, and agencies that need compact traffic and conversion analytics without session replay	Site owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic.
Operator	Emvi Software GmbH Independent private company	Space-O Technologies Independent private company
Company base	Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany · European Union	Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · Other region
Organization scale	1 employees · operator, as of 30 Dec 2025	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 Events and conversion goals Session analysis Funnels and segmentation E-commerce revenue metrics A/B testing Google Search Console plugin Imports from major analytics tools REST API, SDKs, and webhooks Enterprise on-premise deployment	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 cloud free plan. Self-hosting is an Enterprise license rather than the standard open-source deployment path, and pageviews, events, and session extensions count toward usage.	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	Google Search Console, WordPress, REST API, Webhooks, JavaScript and server SDKs	Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools
Fact check	We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-09.	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	Pirsch Analytics	Skald
A/B testing	Listed	Not listed
Behavior analytics	Listed	Not listed
Cookieless	Listed	Not listed
Custom reports	Listed	Not listed
Data export	Listed	Listed
Data ownership	Listed	Not listed
E-commerce tracking	Listed	Not listed
Enterprise	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
Revenue tracking	Listed	Not listed
Self-hosted	Listed	Listed
SEO research	Listed	Not listed
User segments	Listed	Not listed
Web analytics	Listed	Listed

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