Skald: pricing, features and alternatives
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.
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.
Deployment
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.
Company profile
See who operates the product, where the organization is based, and the scale behind it.
- Operator
- Space-O Technologies
- Independent private company
- Official source — Space-O Technologies Official source — Independent private company
- Company base
- Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India · Other region
- Company location does not show where customer data is stored or which privacy laws apply.
- Official source
- Organization scale
- at least 140 team members · operator, as of 26 Oct 2026
- The figure covers the stated organization, not the product team or its support capacity.
- Official source
How the platform evolved
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Skald added AI-answer sampling using the operator’s provider API keys.
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Skald added Visitor journeys, search integrations and retention reports.
Official source
Key features
- Server-log traffic classification
- Optional in-page tracking
- Search Console and Bing reports
- Optional AI-answer monitoring with a daily cost cap
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.
Integrations
Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools
Capabilities
Fact check
We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-10-26. Official source
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