Piwik PRO 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 Piwik PRO if

Regulated businesses and public organizations that need privacy controls, consent management, and detailed first-party analytics

Capabilities listed only for Piwik PRO in this selection

Privacy-first Cookieless GDPR compliant CCPA compliant Real-time data E-commerce tracking App analytics Event tracking Behavior analytics Funnels Revenue tracking Audience insights User segments Heatmaps Goals Data ownership Integrations Custom reports Retention analytics Cross-device tracking Enterprise

Important considerations: Piwik PRO is vendor-hosted in public or private cloud rather than a do-it-yourself self-hosted product. Session logs and heatmaps are available, but it is not a session-replay platform.

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	Piwik PRO	Skald
Overview	A privacy-first analytics and data activation suite for regulated organizations, combining web and mobile analytics, tag management, consent management, customer journeys, ecommerce reporting, and real-time audience activation.	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	Business starts at €36/month for up to 2M monthly actions and 20 domains; Enterprise starts at €366/month billed annually	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	Regulated businesses and public organizations that need privacy controls, consent management, and detailed first-party analytics	Site owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic.
Operator	Piwik PRO SA Subsidiary of Cookie Information Group	Space-O Technologies Independent private company
Company base	Wrocław, Poland · European Union	Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · Other region
Organization scale	about 200 team members · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026	at least 140 team members · operator, as of 26 Oct 2026
Recent direction	platform integration Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration.	platform integration Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration.
Key features	Web and mobile analytics Tag Manager Consent Management Platform Data activation Ecommerce and journey analytics Custom reports and dashboards Heatmaps and clickmaps Anonymous tracking Raw-data API and exports	Server-log traffic classification Optional in-page tracking Search Console and Bing reports Optional AI-answer monitoring with a daily cost cap
Important considerations	Piwik PRO is vendor-hosted in public or private cloud rather than a do-it-yourself self-hosted product. Session logs and heatmaps are available, but it is not a session-replay platform.	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 Ads, Google Search Console, Looker Studio, Power BI, Consent platforms	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	Piwik PRO	Skald
App analytics	Listed	Not listed
Audience insights	Listed	Not listed
Behavior analytics	Listed	Not listed
CCPA compliant	Listed	Not listed
Cookieless	Listed	Not listed
Cross-device tracking	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
Heatmaps	Listed	Not listed
Integrations	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	Not listed	Listed
User segments	Listed	Not listed
Web analytics	Not listed	Listed

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