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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 Umami ifTech-savvy users and businesses prioritizing privacy and simplicity
Important considerations: Cloud counts pageviews, custom events and each stored event property toward usage. Session replay and heatmaps require Cloud Business or Enterprise; Business includes 5,000 replays, then $0.005 each. Cloud has features beyond self-hosting; check edition parity and operating costs.
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| Attribute | Skald | Umami |
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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. | An open-source, self-hosted or managed-cloud analytics platform with cookieless traffic and event reporting plus newer funnels, revenue, Web Vitals, session replay, and heatmap capabilities. |
| 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. | Free self-hosting. Cloud Hobby: $0 for 100K events/month and one website; Pro: $20/month with 1M events; Business: $200/month with 10M events; Enterprise: custom. Paid overages are metered. |
| 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. | Tech-savvy users and businesses prioritizing privacy and simplicity |
| Operator | Space-O Technologies Independent private company | Umami Software, Inc. Independent private company |
| Company base | Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · Other region | San Francisco, United States · United States |
| 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. | behavior analysis Recent official evidence shows a focus on behavior analysis. |
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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 counts pageviews, custom events and each stored event property toward usage. Session replay and heatmaps require Cloud Business or Enterprise; Business includes 5,000 replays, then $0.005 each. Cloud has features beyond self-hosting; check edition parity and operating costs. |
| Integrations | Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools | WordPress, Vercel |
| 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 | Umami |
|---|---|---|
| Audience insights | Not listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Not listed | Listed |
| Cross-device tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Not listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Goals | Not listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Not listed | Listed |
| Open source | Not listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Not listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Not listed | Listed |
| Retention analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| Revenue tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Not listed | Listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Not listed |