CrawlCenter vs Website Crawler (2026): which should you pick?

Pick CrawlCenter if

• Fits if you own a small site and want on-page basics checked for little or nothing
• Works for one-off checks with its 46 stand-alone tools, which need no account

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if your pages are built with JavaScript, which the crawler ignores
• Watch out: it doesn't follow redirects, so redirected URLs show as pages without titles or canonicals
• Tight if you stay free, at one 50-URL project with ads
• Too light for sites past 2,000 URLs, the Silver cap per project
• Watch out: its pricing page offers refunds for 14 days, its FAQ for 1, and the footer still reads 2021

Pick Website Crawler if

• Fits if your site needs a crawler for a few dollars a month
• Works for developers pulling crawl data into their own code through the API

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you stay free, as demo reports such as duplicates and Search Console show 5 URLs
• Watch out: page credits are shared by every project and expire at the end of each month
• Skip it if your site sits behind anti-bot tools, unless you add your own residential proxy
• Tight if you need JavaScript rendering, which the free plan doesn't include

CrawlCenter

• The crawler ignores content generated by JavaScript; its FAQ says JavaScript crawling is not yet available to users.
• It does not follow redirects, so redirected URLs appear as pages without titles or canonicals until the links are updated.
• The free plan stops at one 50-URL project and shows ads; Silver stops at 2,000 URLs per project.
• Its pages disagree on refunds: the pricing page offers 14 days, the FAQ only 1 day. The site's footer still reads 2021.

Website Crawler

• On the free plan, reports marked demo, such as duplicate content, cannibalization and Search Console data, show only 5 URLs.
• Page credits are shared by all projects in the account and expire at the end of each month.
• It cannot crawl sites behind anti-bot tools or blocked where it is hosted unless you add your own residential proxy.
• Refunds are offered within 14 days of buying a plan, on request by email with a reason.

CrawlCenter

On-page SEO reports

Builds more than 15 reports from each crawl, covering content, titles, meta descriptions, headings, robots meta tags, canonical URLs and nofollow links.

Broken links and status codes

Lists broken internal and external links, and an HTTP status report filters pages by code to find 301 and 302 redirects.

Duplicates and thin content

Finds pages that share a title, meta description or keywords tag, and pages with little content.

Links, images and indexability

Counts internal and external links per page, shows internal anchor text, lists images without alt text and flags pages with a noindex tag.

Response times

Records the response time of every crawled page so slow pages can be sorted out without testing them one at a time.

Free stand-alone tools

46 tools that need no account, including redirect, mixed content and SSL expiry checkers and schema generators for FAQs, events, local businesses and organizations.

Website Crawler

Technical SEO reports

Finds broken links, redirect chains, canonical errors, duplicate titles and descriptions, heading gaps, missing alt text, thin content and hreflang problems.

JavaScript rendering

Paid plans can switch from the faster HTML crawler to a Chrome mode that runs each page's JavaScript before checking it, so single-page apps can be crawled.

Custom data extraction

Scrapes chosen data from pages with CSS selectors, XPath or a JavaScript snippet, exported as CSV, JSON or Markdown, with optional residential proxies.

Page speed and rendering

Paid plans add Core Web Vitals through a PageSpeed Insights key, console errors, render-blocking resources, CSS and JavaScript coverage, and screenshots.

Monitoring and scheduled crawls

Watches pages for changes and keeps up to 10 snapshots, alerts on downtime and SSL expiry, schedules crawls and compares two crawls side by side.

API and Search Console

An API with SDKs for Python, Go, JavaScript, Rust, PHP and Java starts crawls and returns the data as JSON; Search Console data can be filtered by keyword.

CrawlCenter

• Basic$0

  1 project with up to 50 URLs, unlimited crawls and every report, shown with ads.

• Silver$3

  per month for 10 projects of up to 2,000 URLs each

  10 projects, 2,000 URLs per project, unlimited crawls and project deletions, and no ads. Shown as ₹150 a month when read from India.

Website Crawler

• Basic$0

  1,000 pages a month and 1 project with the HTML crawler, data extraction, API access and 3 page monitors. No card required.

• Starter$10

  per month for 2,000 pages, billed monthly

  3 projects and 2 users, JavaScript rendering, all reports, Core Web Vitals, white-label PDFs, 5-minute uptime checks and 20 page monitors.

• Growth$20

  per month for 10,000 pages, billed monthly

  10 projects and 4 users, 3-minute uptime checks, 100 page monitors and priority support.

• Scale$60

  per month for 50,000 pages, billed monthly

  50 projects and 10 users, 1-minute uptime checks, 500 page monitors and priority support.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Up to 1 million pages a month and 100 projects, unlimited team members and the fastest crawl speed. The page puts it at around $90 a month and up.

CrawlCenter

No public discounts listed.

Website Crawler

• Annual discount

  10% off with annual billing

  Website Crawler's pricing page shows a 10% discount on the annual plans, which are paid yearly and renew each year.