Audisto vs Screaming Frog SEO Spider (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Audisto if

• Fits if you audit large or multilingual sites and rerun crawls often
• Works for developers who want automated tests that catch SEO regressions

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you're buying as a private person, as it sells to businesses only
• Skip it if you want to try it first, since there's no trial or free plan
• Pricey if your site is big, at €659 a month for 1 million pages and €5,650 at 20 million
• Watch out: contracts renew monthly, and you must cancel by the 13th or the next invoice stands
• Tight if you want Search Console or log data beside the crawl, as no such connections are listed

Pick Screaming Frog SEO Spider if

• Fits if you're a technical SEO who audits large sites from your own computer
• Works for sites under 500 URLs, which the free version crawls with no time limit

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want keyword research, rank tracking or backlinks, as it only crawls
• Not for you if you'd rather not learn technical SEO terms, XPath or regex
• Tight if your computer is short on memory or storage, since crawl size depends on it, and there's no web or phone version
• Pricey if a team needs it: licences are $279 per user a year, so two people need two
• Watch out: the free version can't save crawls, render JavaScript, schedule audits or connect to Google data

Audisto

• Sold to businesses only, priced in euros and shown without VAT.
• The price rises with crawl size: the Crawler plan is €659 a month at 1 million HTML pages per crawl and €5,650 at 20 million.
• No free trial or free plan is offered; the site offers a demo and direct ordering.
• Contracts renew automatically each month; cancel by the 13th or the next invoice, issued on the 14th, will not be cancelled.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

• Licences are per user and last one year; two people need two licences.
• It is a desktop app, so crawl size depends on the computer's memory and storage.
• The free version cannot save crawls, render JavaScript, schedule audits or connect to Google data.

Audisto

Unlimited crawls

Run as many crawls a month as you need without credits, with on-demand recrawls of single URLs, multi-domain crawls and full archived HTML.

Indexability, canonicals and hreflang

Finds conflicting directives and URLs blocked from crawling, maps canonical groups, and validates hreflang groups across domains.

Site structure analysis

Analyzes the internal link graph with PageRank and CheiRank, crawl depth and isolated pages, and can simulate changes on verified sites.

Rendering and JavaScript errors

Compares downloaded against rendered HTML to find JavaScript problems, with segmented Web Vitals at scale.

Automated monitoring

The Monitoring plan tests every crawl against custom rules, fingerprints files such as robots.txt and sitemaps, and sends real-time alerts.

API and exports

API access and unlimited exports in XLS, CSV, TSV, JSON and XML on every plan.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Technical SEO audit

Find broken links, server errors, redirect chains, missing or duplicate titles and descriptions, and directives such as noindex and canonicals.

JavaScript rendering

With a licence, render pages in a built-in Chromium to crawl sites built with frameworks such as React, Angular and Vue.

Custom extraction and search

Pull any data from page HTML with XPath, CSS Path or regex, and search source code across a whole crawl (licence only).

Google and AI integrations

Pull Google Analytics, Search Console and PageSpeed Insights data into a crawl, or run pages through OpenAI and Gemini (licence only).

Scheduling and crawl comparison

Schedule crawls with exports to Google Sheets or run them from the command line, and compare crawls or staging against production.

Site visualisations and sitemaps

See site structure as force-directed and tree diagrams, and generate XML and image sitemaps from a crawl.

Audisto

• Audisto Crawler€99

  per month for 10,000 HTML pages per crawl, billed monthly

  Unlimited crawls and users, JavaScript rendering, daily scheduling, API and exports. €659 a month at 1M pages; €1,089 a year billed annually.

• Audisto Monitoring€199

  per month for 10,000 HTML pages per crawl, billed monthly

  Includes the crawler, plus 200 test rules per crawl, real-time critical alerts and hourly scheduling. €1,479 a month at 1M pages.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

• Free$0

  Up to 500 URLs per crawl, broken links, redirects, metadata, duplicates, XML sitemaps and site visualisations.

• Paid licence$279

  per user / year, for 1 to 4 licences

  No crawl limit beyond memory and storage, saved crawls, scheduling, JavaScript rendering, crawl comparison, integrations and support. £199 in pounds.

Audisto

• Annual discount

  One month free with annual billing

  Audisto's pricing page gives one month free on annual billing: the entry Crawler plan is €1,089 a year instead of €99 a month.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

• Other savings

  Volume pricing from 5 licences

  Buying 5 to 9 licences at once costs $265 each a year, 10 to 19 cost $249 each, and 20 or more cost $235 each, against $279 for 1 to 4.