Botify vs Lumar (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Botify grades higher than Lumar: 2.2 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Botify grades higher on features. They get the same grade on value for money, the free plan, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Which one is for you
Pick Botify if
- Fits if you run a retail or publishing site with millions of pages
- Works for SEO teams that want to ship and split-test page changes without the dev queue
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want a price up front, as it's demo request only
- Skip it if you want to try it before talking to sales, since there's no free plan or self-serve trial
- Tight if you can't get at your raw server or CDN logs, which LogAnalyzer needs
- Watch out: professional services and consulting are billed separately from the platform
Pick Lumar if
- Fits if your site has hundreds of thousands of pages and an enterprise budget
- Makes sense if you want SEO checks to block a release in your CI/CD pipeline
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want to see a price before talking to sales, as it's quote-only
- Skip it if you want to try it first, since there's no free plan or trial on record
- Tight if you crawl a lot, as active projects and URLs per billing period are capped by contract
- Watch out: SEO and GEO professional services are a separate monthly contract
How we grade them
| 2.2GPABotifyFair | 2.0GPALumarFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CNo price is published. The pricing link goes to a demo request form, so the cost only comes out on a sales call. Professional services and consulting are sold separately on top. | CNo price is published. Lumar's pricing page is a quote form, so you only find out what it costs on a sales call, with packages built from the apps and metrics you pick. With no figure to compare, it sits at the ordinary grade. |
| Free plan and trial | FNothing free on record. There's no free plan or self-serve trial on the site, only a demo request. | FNothing free on record: the site mentions no free plan and no trial. Access starts with a demo or a quote. |
| Features | ACrawls millions of pages with Googlebot's rendering engine and 1,000+ indicators, reads logs daily for bots such as GPTBot and ClaudeBot, and measures share of voice in AI answers. PageWorkers then changes tags and redirects on thousands of URLs and split-tests them, which Lumar, Oncrawl and JetOctopus don't list. | BCrawls up to 450 URLs a second, with 350+ reports on technical SEO, AI search readiness, speed and WCAG accessibility. Monitor follows many domains, and Protect tests new code in GitHub, Jenkins, CircleCI or Azure DevOps. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core job. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. It's an enterprise platform with crawls, log feeds and Search Console data to connect, and LogAnalyzer won't work until you hand over raw server or CDN logs. | CNo rating on record. It's four apps on one crawler, with projects, crawl schedules, speed limits and custom extractions to set up, and access goes through a demo first. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb only. It pulls in Search Console, and its MCP server lets ChatGPT and Claude query your crawl, log and Search Console data. The listed integrations stop there. | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It links to Search Console, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Looker Studio, GitHub, Splunk, Slack and Zapier, and has a public API. |
| Best for | crawl, log and AI bot data on huge sites | crawling very large sites before each release |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Botify and Lumar. How we grade
Where they differ
- Botify also covers a/B testing, internal linking and log file analysis.
- Lumar also covers dashboards and page speed.
In commonWebAI featuresSite auditAI search visibility
At a glance
| Botify | Lumar | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| Starts at | Not published | Not published |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Botify | Lumar |
| Price read from | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Botify
- No prices are published: the pricing link leads to a demo request form.
- No free plan or self-serve trial is offered on the site.
- LogAnalyzer needs access to your raw server or CDN log files.
- Professional services and consulting are sold separately from the platform.
Lumar
- No prices are published: the pricing page is a quote form, and packages are built from the apps and metrics a team picks.
- Accounts have limits on active projects and on URLs crawled per billing period, set in each contract.
- No free plan or free trial is mentioned on the site; access starts with a demo or a quote.
- SEO and GEO professional services are sold as a separate monthly contract.
Key features
Botify
- SiteCrawler
- Crawls millions of pages per crawl with the same rendering engine as Googlebot, across mobile, desktop, AMP, country and staging versions, with 1,000+ technical indicators.
- LogAnalyzer
- Reads raw server logs from your CDN daily to show which bots crawl which pages, including GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot and ClaudeBot.
- AI Visibility
- Measures share of voice, mentions, citations and rankings in AI search and shopping answers, compared side by side with competitors.
- PageWorkers
- Changes tags, redirects and content on thousands of URLs without developers, runs SEO split tests, and can reverse a change in seconds.
- RealKeywords
- Every keyword the site ranks for, from Google Search Console, segmented by category or template and shown beside crawl metrics such as depth and internal links.
- Botify MCP and agents
- Ask questions of your own crawl, log and Search Console data from an AI assistant, and run agents that draft fixes for sign-off.
Lumar
- Cloud crawler
- Crawls run in the cloud at up to 450 URLs a second, or 350 rendered, with schedules, speed limits and a safeguard that pauses a crawl when failures pass a set rate.
- Analyze
- Lumar says Analyze has 350+ built-in reports on technical SEO, AI search readiness, site speed and accessibility, plus custom extractions from page HTML.
- Monitor
- Follows key metrics across several domains, site sections or country sites on shared dashboards, with alerts when new issues appear.
- Protect
- Runs automated SEO, speed and accessibility tests on new code, and can stop a build in GitHub, Jenkins, CircleCI or Azure DevOps when a test fails.
- GEO and AI visibility
- Reports on what may keep pages out of AI search answers and tracks brand mentions and sentiment on AI platforms, with AI-written suggestions.
- Accessibility and speed
- Tests pages against WCAG 2.2 levels A to AAA, and runs Lighthouse reports at scale alongside origin-level Chrome UX Report data.
Plans
Botify
Pricing could not be confirmed. See botify.com.
Lumar
Pricing could not be confirmed. See lumar.io.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Botify or Lumar?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Botify has no price we could confirm, and Lumar has no price we could confirm.
Which has a free plan, Botify or Lumar?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither Botify nor Lumar has a free plan.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.