PostHog 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 PostHog if

Developers and product teams who want analytics, replay, experimentation, and feature delivery in a single toolchain

Capabilities listed only for PostHog in this selection

Open source GDPR compliant Real-time data E-commerce tracking App analytics Event tracking Behavior analytics Funnels Revenue tracking Error tracking Audience insights User segments Session recordings Heatmaps Surveys A/B testing Goals Data ownership Integrations Custom reports AI insights Retention analytics Cohort analysis Enterprise

Important considerations: Each cloud product is metered separately. The free MIT self-hosted deployment is officially unsupported, with no customer support or guarantees. Only free-plan features are available there; paid-plan features are Cloud-only.

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	PostHog	Skald
Overview	A product and web analytics platform for developers that combines usage analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments, surveys, and data tooling in one stack, with both cloud and self-hosted deployment options.	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 product analytics includes 1M events/month free, then starts at $0.00005 per event; other products have separate usage-based free tiers	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	Developers and product teams who want analytics, replay, experimentation, and feature delivery in a single toolchain	Site owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic.
Operator	PostHog Inc. Independent private company	Space-O Technologies Independent private company
Company base	Distributed organization	Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · Other region
Organization scale	215 team members · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026	at least 140 team members · operator, as of 26 Oct 2026
Recent direction	AI-assisted analysis Recent official evidence shows a focus on AI-assisted analysis.	platform integration Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration.
Key features	Self-hosted Session recordings A/B testing Feature flags Surveys Open source Real-time analytics Custom event tracking Integrations Data export	Server-log traffic classification Optional in-page tracking Search Console and Bing reports Optional AI-answer monitoring with a daily cost cap
Important considerations	Each cloud product is metered separately. The free MIT self-hosted deployment is officially unsupported, with no customer support or guarantees. Only free-plan features are available there; paid-plan features are Cloud-only.	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	Slack, Zapier, Segment	Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools
Fact check	We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30.	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	PostHog	Skald
A/B testing	Listed	Not listed
AI insights	Listed	Not listed
App analytics	Listed	Not listed
Audience insights	Listed	Not listed
Behavior analytics	Listed	Not listed
Cohort analysis	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
Error tracking	Listed	Not listed
Event tracking	Listed	Not listed
Free plan	Listed	Listed
Funnels	Listed	Not listed
GDPR compliant	Listed	Not listed
Goals	Listed	Not listed
Heatmaps	Listed	Not listed
Integrations	Listed	Not listed
Open source	Listed	Not listed
Real-time data	Listed	Not listed
Retention analytics	Listed	Not listed
Revenue tracking	Listed	Not listed
Self-hosted	Listed	Listed
Session recordings	Listed	Not listed
Surveys	Listed	Not listed
User segments	Listed	Not listed
Web analytics	Not listed	Listed

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