SEO crawler alternatives

Side-by-side comparisons between crawler4seo and the six most popular SEO crawlers on the market today. Free, local and AI-native — pick the right tool for your audit.

Desktop crawlers

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Screaming Frog
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£199/yr (free ≤ 500 URLs)

The industry-standard desktop SEO crawler from Screaming Frog Ltd. Free up to 500 URLs, £199/year for unlimited.

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Sitebulb
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$18-42/mo desktop, $125+/mo cloud

Desktop SEO crawler from Sitebulb Ltd. Known for visual crawl maps and prioritized issue lists. $18-42/month desktop, $125+/month cloud.

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Netpeak Spider
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From $19/mo

Windows-focused desktop SEO crawler from Netpeak Software. Strong memory efficiency, subscription from $19/month.

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Cloud crawlers

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OnCrawl
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Enterprise — on request

Enterprise cloud SEO crawler with server log analysis, from OnCrawl SAS (France). Strong on big sites, pricing on request.

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JetOctopus
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SaaS — from ~$200/mo

Cloud SEO crawler from JetOctopus (Ukraine). Positioned on speed — up to 200 pages/second with no project or crawl limits.

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Lumar
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Enterprise — on request

Enterprise cloud crawler from Lumar (formerly DeepCrawl). Designed for large teams with shared dashboards, annual contracts.

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Not sure which to pick?

crawler4seo is free to download during early access. Try it first — most users replace their previous crawler within one audit.

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