Botify vs searchVIU (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Botify and searchVIU share a 2.2 GPA, neither has a free plan and their prices can't be set side by side, so the choice depends on whether you care more about value for money and features, where Botify grades higher, or the free plan, where searchVIU does.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
They get the same grade on ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
searchVIU
Managed SEO crawling and monitoring with reports built by its team
Free trial · from €399/mo
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 searchVIU if
- Fits if your in-house team at an online shop wants monitoring set up and explained for you
- Makes sense if you're planning a relaunch or domain move and need old and new sites compared
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you're a small site, as Basic alone is €399 a month and prices are in euros only
- Not for you if you want to sign up and start today, as trials go through a form and a call
- Tight if you need log file analysis, BI feeds or Merchant Center monitoring, which are Advanced only at €549
- Watch out: crawling past 50,000 URLs costs €50 a month more per extra 50,000, up to 500,000
How we grade them
| 2.2GPABotifyFair | 2.2GPAsearchVIUFair | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | DBasic is €399 a month for up to 50,000 crawled URLs, in this category's dearest tenth, which starts at $99. Analyst-built reports and a monthly call are part of that. Each extra 50,000 URLs is €50 a month more. |
| Free plan and trial | FNothing free on record. There's no free plan or self-serve trial on the site, only a demo request. | CNo free plan. A free trial is requested through a form on the pricing page and arranged through a first call; its length isn't stated. |
| 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. | BDaily checks of 2,000 key pages, weekly full crawls with JavaScript rendering, alerts on new 404s and noindex tags, crawl comparisons and relaunch checks that match old URLs to new. It covers crawling and monitoring, with log files on Advanced. |
| 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. Its team builds the reports, but buying starts with a form and a call, and Search Console and Analytics are connected before it's useful. |
| 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, linked to Search Console, Google Analytics, Looker Studio and Merchant Center. No desktop or phone app, and no API on record. |
| Best for | crawl, log and AI bot data on huge sites | crawling and monitoring with reports built for you |
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 searchVIU. How we grade
Where they differ
- Botify also covers a/B testing, AI search visibility and internal linking.
- searchVIU also covers reports.
In commonWebSite auditLog file analysis
At a glance
| Botify | searchVIU | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Free trial |
| Starts at | Not published | €399 per month for up to 50,000 crawled URLs, billed monthly |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | None listed | Free trial requested through a form on the pricing page; its length is not stated |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Botify | searchVIU GmbH |
| Price read from | Not confirmed | searchviu.com |
| 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.
searchVIU
- Prices are given in euros only. Crawling past 50,000 URLs costs €50 more a month per extra 50,000, up to 500,000.
- There is no self-serve sign-up; trials and demos are arranged through a form and a first call.
- Log file analysis, BI data feeds and product feed monitoring come only with Advanced.
- Its free stand-alone tools, such as the robots.txt checker and hreflang tester, are separate from the paid plans.
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.
searchVIU
- Daily page monitoring
- Checks the 2,000 (Basic) or 5,000+ (Advanced) pages that matter most every day, with weekly crawls of the whole site.
- JavaScript rendering
- Renders pages the way Google does on both plans, so content and links added by scripts are crawled.
- Alerts and change tracking
- Sends alerts on critical issues such as 404s and noindex tags, and compares crawls to list new, removed and changed pages.
- Reports built for you
- searchVIU's analysts build custom reports and data exports in Looker Studio, joined with Search Console and Analytics data.
- Relaunch checks
- Crawls the live and development versions of a site, flags lost content and links, and matches old URLs to new ones for redirect mapping.
- Log files and feeds
- Advanced adds log file analysis of bot behavior, faceted navigation checks and monitoring of Merchant Center product feeds.
Plans
Botify
Pricing could not be confirmed. See botify.com.
searchVIU
Basic€399
per month for up to 50,000 crawled URLs, billed monthly
Daily checks of 2,000 key pages, weekly crawls with JavaScript rendering, alerts, Search Console and Analytics data, and a 30-minute monthly call.
Advanced€549
per month for up to 50,000 crawled URLs, billed monthly
Daily checks of 5,000+ pages, log file analysis, data from feeds and databases, BI data feeds, Merchant Center monitoring and a 1-hour monthly call.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Botify or searchVIU?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Botify has no price we could confirm, and searchVIU starts at €399 per month for up to 50,000 crawled URLs, billed monthly.
Which has a free plan, Botify or searchVIU?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither Botify nor searchVIU has a free plan. searchVIU has a free trial.
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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.