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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 WireBoard ifPublishers, site owners and agencies that want live traffic dashboards across several websites.
Important considerations: Vendor cloud only, processed on EU infrastructure. Default tracking sets third-party collector cookies (2-year visitor ID, 30-minute session); the optional cookieless mode loses returning-visitor and cross-page session tracking. Page views and custom events share one quota, and recording stops at the plan limit. The API is read-only; session recordings and click heatmaps are not part of the documented feature set.
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| Attribute | Skald | WireBoard |
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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 real-time web analytics service with customizable multi-site dashboards, custom events, goals, funnels, user journeys, scheduled exports and read-only REST and live-streaming APIs. |
| 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 plan with 2 websites, 3 dashboards, 50,000 monthly page views or events and 1 month of visible history. Explorer starts at $9/month for 100,000 page views, 3 years of history and team access; yearly billing saves 17%. Enterprise pricing is custom. |
| 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. | Publishers, site owners and agencies that want live traffic dashboards across several websites. |
| Operator | Space-O Technologies Independent private company | SwissOps Ltd. Independent private company |
| Company base | Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · Other region | Renens, Switzerland · Other region |
| 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, processed on EU infrastructure. Default tracking sets third-party collector cookies (2-year visitor ID, 30-minute session); the optional cookieless mode loses returning-visitor and cross-page session tracking. Page views and custom events share one quota, and recording stops at the plan limit. The API is read-only; session recordings and click heatmaps are not part of the documented feature set. |
| Integrations | Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools | WordPress, Google Tag Manager, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Next.js, MCP |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-10-26. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-10-10. |
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 | WireBoard |
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| Custom reports | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Not listed | Listed |
| Goals | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Not listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Not listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Not listed |
| Web analytics | Listed | Listed |