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Plausible 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 Plausible Analytics if

Publishers, SaaS teams, and privacy-first site owners who want simple reporting without consent-banner complexity

Capabilities listed only for Plausible Analytics in this selection

Privacy-first Open source Cookieless GDPR compliant CCPA compliant Real-time data Event tracking Goals Funnels Integrations Audience insights User segments

Important considerations: Starter is limited to one site; funnels, revenue tracking, custom properties, and API access require the Business tier.

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 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 Data export

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Attribute Plausible Analytics Skald
Overview A privacy-first and open-source analytics platform focused on simple reporting, cookieless tracking, funnels, Search Console insights, and recent additions like scroll-depth tracking and AI-referral monitoring.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 Cloud plans start at $9/month (Starter), $14/month (Growth), and $19/month (Business); Enterprise is custom and Community Edition is self-hostedFree 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 optionsSelf-hosted and hosted options
Best for Publishers, SaaS teams, and privacy-first site owners who want simple reporting without consent-banner complexitySite owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic.
Operator Plausible Insights OÜ
Independent private company		Space-O Technologies
Independent private company
Company base Tartu, Estonia · European UnionAhmedabad, Gujarat, India · Other region
Organization scale 10 team members · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026at 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 tracking
  • Real-time analytics
  • Scroll depth tracking
  • Funnels
  • Search Console integration
  • Self-hosted option
  • Open source
  • Server-log traffic classification
  • Optional in-page tracking
  • Search Console and Bing reports
  • Optional AI-answer monitoring with a daily cost cap
Important considerations Starter is limited to one site; funnels, revenue tracking, custom properties, and API access require the Business tier.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 WordPress, Shopify, ZapierGoogle 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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AttributePlausible AnalyticsSkald
Audience insights Listed Not listed
CCPA compliant Listed Not listed
Cookieless Listed Not listed
Data export Listed 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
Self-hosted Listed Listed
User segments Listed Not listed
Web analytics Not listed Listed
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