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Starting prices use different billing periods and usage units. Compare the same traffic, events, retention and seats.
Choose Skald ifSite owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic.
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.
Choose Statable ifWebsite owners and small teams wanting hosted traffic and conversion reporting with API and automation access.
Important considerations: Vendor cloud only; analytics data is processed and stored in the Netherlands. Outbound clicks and downloads count as billable custom events. Daily site-specific identifiers limit continuity across days; review privacy notices and collection settings for your use case.
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| Attribute | Skald | Statable |
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| Overview | 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. | A hosted cookieless web analytics service with real-time traffic, custom events, goals, funnels, saved segments and error tracking. Its API, CLI and MCP integrations expose reports to other tools. |
| 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. | From $9/month for 10,000 monthly events (pageviews and custom events combined), or $7/month billed annually. All features and unlimited websites; 30-day trial without a card. Permanent Free Access is restricted to .edu, .github.io and .gitlab.io sites with a public widget. |
| Deployment | Self-hosted and hosted options | Vendor-hosted cloud |
| Best for | Site owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic. | Website owners and small teams wanting hosted traffic and conversion reporting with API and automation access. |
| Operator | Space-O Technologies Independent private company | Key Arg B.V. Independent private company |
| Company base | Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · Other region | Monster, Netherlands · European Union |
| Organization scale | at least 140 team members · operator, as of 26 Oct 2026 | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. |
| Recent direction | platform integration Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration. | platform integration Recent official evidence shows a focus on platform integration. |
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| 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. | Vendor cloud only; analytics data is processed and stored in the Netherlands. Outbound clicks and downloads count as billable custom events. Daily site-specific identifiers limit continuity across days; review privacy notices and collection settings for your use case. |
| Integrations | Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools | WordPress, n8n, MCP, CLI, Google Analytics, Google Search Console |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-10-26. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-09-30. |
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 | Skald | Statable |
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| Cookieless | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Not listed |
| Error tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Not listed | Listed |
| Goals | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Not listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Not listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Not listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Not listed |
| User segments | Not listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Listed |