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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.
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 Swetrix ifPrivacy-conscious website, product, and engineering teams that want analytics with performance, errors, replay, and optional self-hosting
Important considerations: Cloud has no permanent free plan and the trial requires a payment method. Replay, feature flags, and A/B testing require Plus; self-hosting shifts upgrades, storage, security, and backups to your team.
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| Attribute | Skald | Swetrix |
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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 privacy-focused, open-source web analytics platform with cookieless traffic and event reporting, funnels, performance and error monitoring, session analysis, replay, feature flags, and A/B testing in cloud or self-hosted editions. |
| 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. | Cloud Standard starts at €17/month and Plus at €35/month for 100,000 monthly events; annual billing saves 17%, and VAT may apply. A 14-day trial requires a payment method. Enterprise is custom; self-hosted Community Edition is free. |
| Deployment | Self-hosted and hosted options | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Site owners and agencies with access to suitable server or CDN logs who want visibility into people and automated traffic. | Privacy-conscious website, product, and engineering teams that want analytics with performance, errors, replay, and optional self-hosting |
| Operator | Space-O Technologies Independent private company | Swetrix Ltd Independent private company |
| Company base | Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · Other region | Edinburgh, United Kingdom · United Kingdom |
| 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. | privacy-focused analytics Recent official evidence shows a focus on privacy-focused analytics. |
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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. | Cloud has no permanent free plan and the trial requires a payment method. Replay, feature flags, and A/B testing require Plus; self-hosting shifts upgrades, storage, security, and backups to your team. |
| Integrations | Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools | Google Analytics import, WordPress, Google Tag Manager, REST API |
| 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 | Swetrix |
|---|---|---|
| A/B testing | Not listed | Listed |
| Ad-blocker resistant | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Not listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Not listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Not listed | Listed |
| Enterprise | Not listed | Listed |
| Error tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Not listed |
| Funnels | Not listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Goals | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Not listed | Listed |
| Open source | Not listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Not listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Not listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Not listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Listed |