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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 Statcounter ifSmall businesses and bloggers needing simple web analytics
Important considerations: Free history is limited to 14 days; session replay is a separate allowance and heatmaps require Premium Plus.
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| Attribute | Skald | Statcounter |
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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 web analytics service centered on real-time visitor feeds, traffic trends, landing-page and paid-traffic analysis, conversions, session replay, and higher-tier heatmaps. |
| 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. | Basic is free for 5,000 sessions/month with 14-day retention; Premium starts at €9/month and Premium Plus at €19/month for 20,000 sessions |
| 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. | Small businesses and bloggers needing simple web analytics |
| Operator | Space-O Technologies Independent private company | StatCounter Independent private company |
| Company base | Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · Other region | Dublin, Ireland · 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. | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. |
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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. | Free history is limited to 14 days; session replay is a separate allowance and heatmaps require Premium Plus. |
| Integrations | Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools | WordPress, Shopify |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-10-26. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. |
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 | Statcounter |
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| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Goals | Not listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Not listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Not listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Not listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Not listed |