Rybbit 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 Rybbit if

Privacy-conscious product, engineering, marketing, and agency teams that want deeper self-hostable analytics with replay and error context

Capabilities listed only for Rybbit in this selection

Privacy-first Open source Cookieless GDPR compliant CCPA compliant Real-time data E-commerce tracking Event tracking Behavior analytics Funnels Error tracking Audience insights User segments Session recordings Goals Data ownership Integrations Custom reports Retention analytics Enterprise SEO research

Important considerations: Cloud session replay requires Pro and there is no permanent cloud free plan. Self-hosting is free but requires operating its database, upgrades, storage, privacy controls, and backups.

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	Rybbit	Skald
Overview	An open-source web and product analytics platform with cookieless real-time traffic, custom events, user profiles, funnels, journeys, retention, error tracking, Web Vitals, and session replay in cloud or self-hosted editions.	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	7-day cloud trial; Standard starts at $13/month and Pro at $26/month billed annually for 100,000 monthly pageviews; Enterprise is custom; AGPL self-hosting is free	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 product, engineering, marketing, and agency teams that want deeper self-hostable analytics with replay and error context	Site owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic.
Operator	Rybbit Independent project	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	self-hosted expansion Recent official evidence shows a focus on self-hosted expansion.	platform integration Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration.
Key features	Cookieless real-time web analytics Custom events and autocapture Goals and conversion funnels User journeys and profiles Retention analysis JavaScript error tracking Web Vitals monitoring Session replay API and warehouse export Free AGPL self-hosting	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 session replay requires Pro and there is no permanent cloud free plan. Self-hosting is free but requires operating its database, upgrades, storage, privacy controls, and backups.	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, Google Tag Manager, WordPress, Shopify, Stats API	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	Rybbit	Skald
Audience insights	Listed	Not listed
Behavior analytics	Listed	Not listed
CCPA compliant	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
Error tracking	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
Retention analytics	Listed	Not listed
Self-hosted	Listed	Listed
SEO research	Listed	Not listed
Session recordings	Listed	Not listed
User segments	Listed	Not listed
Web analytics	Listed	Listed

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