Beam Us Up vs SiteAnalyzer (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Beam Us Up if

• Fits if you want a site crawler without a subscription
• Works for developers who want to run crawls from the command line or a server

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you need support you can count on, as it's one developer's project answered through site comments
• Too light for very big audits, since crawls use up to half your computer's memory and Excel exports stop at 65,536 rows
• Skip it if you want crawls run in the cloud, as it only runs on your own computer
• Watch out: its own site says paid crawlers such as Screaming Frog and Netpeak do more

Pick SiteAnalyzer if

• Fits if you're an SEO freelancer on Windows who'd rather pay once than subscribe
• Works for studying how internal links and PageRank flow through a site

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you work on a Mac or Linux, as it's Windows only and Wine or CrossOver are the vendor's workarounds
• Not for you if your site loads links with JavaScript, which it doesn't render yet
• Tight if you stay free, at 100 pages a crawl, 1 project and 1 thread
• Watch out: the home page table shows 500 pages and 5 threads for free, while the pricing page says 100 and 1
• Pricey if you work across several computers, as each $108 license covers one

Beam Us Up

• It is desktop software only: crawls run on your own computer and can use up to half of its memory.
• The Excel export stops at 65,536 rows per sheet.
• It is a personal project of its developer, and support is offered through comments on the site.
• Its own site says paid crawlers such as Screaming Frog and Netpeak are more capable.

SiteAnalyzer

• It runs only on Windows; the vendor suggests Wine on Linux and CrossOver on a Mac as workarounds.
• It does not render JavaScript, so links loaded by scripts are missed; the FAQ says rendering is planned.
• The pricing page caps the free version at 100 pages and 1 thread, while the home page table shows 500 pages and 5 threads.
• Each Pro license covers one computer; refunds are offered within 30 days of purchase.

Beam Us Up

Technical crawl checks

Finds broken links, server and client errors, redirects, duplicate content, page titles, meta descriptions, H1 to H3 headings, canonicals and blocked URLs.

PageSpeed scores in bulk

Pulls Google PageSpeed results, including Core Web Vitals from real visitors, for crawled pages using a free Google API key.

JavaScript rendering

Version 2.0 can render pages using a Chrome or Edge browser already installed on the computer, set to never, auto or always.

AI bot access checks

An AI Access tab shows which of 27 search and AI bots the site's robots.txt allows, checks llms.txt, and can export an llms.txt draft.

Crawl comparison

Compares two crawls to show fixed, new and remaining issues and changed pages, with results exported as CSV files.

Command line and MCP

Installs a command-line crawler for scripts and servers, and can connect to AI apps such as Claude, Cursor and VS Code over MCP.

SiteAnalyzer

Technical SEO audit

More than 60 preset filters pick out problems such as duplicate titles, 404 errors, redirect chains and oversized images, with a 0 to 100 score.

Link graph and internal PageRank

Draws the site's internal links as an interactive graph and calculates internal PageRank for each page, with anchor text statistics.

Search Console and Yandex data

Pulls indexing, traffic, bounce rate and ranking queries per page from Google Search Console, Yandex Webmaster and Yandex Metrica.

Data scraping

Extracts content from a list of URLs with XPath, CSS selectors, XQuery or regular expressions, and exports it to Excel.

Duplicate content checks

Batch-checks pages for text that is not unique within the domain and lists duplicate pages.

Exports and sitemaps

Exports any data or the audit report to Excel or PDF, the site structure to mind map tools, and generates XML sitemaps.

Beam Us Up

• Free$0

  The full desktop crawler for Windows, macOS and Linux, with no limits stated on the site.

SiteAnalyzer

• Free$0

  100 pages per crawl, 1 saved project and 1 thread, for a small site on one computer.

• Pro$108

  one-time, per computer

  Unlimited pages and projects, up to 99 threads and free updates. Shown as reduced from a crossed-out $120; the price per computer falls for teams.

Beam Us Up

No public discounts listed.

SiteAnalyzer

• Other savings

  Volume discount for teams

  The pricing page lowers the Pro price per computer as more are bought: $99 each for 3 to 5, down to $72 each for 21 or more, a 33% saving.