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

Pick FandangoSEO if

• Fits if you run a site with hundreds of thousands of pages and want logs and rankings in one place
• Works for agencies auditing and tracking many client sites

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you need log analysis or JavaScript rendering, which start on Pro at $376 a month
• Skip it if you want to try it on your own site first, as there's no free plan or trial
• Tight if you're on Starter, with 1 seat, desktop-only rankings and weekly crawls
• Watch out: the API, MCP and Slack alerts wait for Advanced, and extra seats are €10 to €15 a month

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

FandangoSEO

• There is no free plan or free trial; signing up opens a demo project with sample data, and crawling your own site needs a paid plan.
• Log analysis and JavaScript rendering start at Pro; the API, MCP access and Slack alerts start at Advanced.
• The crawled-page allowance is shared across all projects in each crawl cycle, and Starter tracks rankings on desktop only.
• Enterprise prices and extra seats (€10 to €15 a month each) are shown in euros only.

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.

FandangoSEO

Cloud SEO crawler

Crawls sites against 500+ technical checks, including canonicals, hreflang, sitemaps, duplicates and internal link depth, on demand or on a schedule.

Server log analysis

From Pro, imports server logs to show what Googlebot and AI bots such as GPTBot and ClaudeBot fetch, and which pages they never visit.

JavaScript rendering check

Pro and above compare the rendered page with the raw HTML, to find pages that bots which do not run JavaScript see as empty.

Daily rank tracking

Tracks keyword positions every day, with SERP features such as AI Overviews and keyword cannibalization checks from the Team plan.

Monitoring and alerts

Email alerts on indexation, robots and status code changes on every plan; always-on checks of 10 to 200 key pages start at Team.

AI chat on your data

Ask questions about crawl, log and Search Console data in plain language, from 25 queries a week on Starter to 250 on Advanced.

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.

FandangoSEO

• Starter$90

  per month for 50,000 pages, billed yearly ($113 billed monthly)

  1 seat, 5 websites, 50,000 crawled pages per crawl cycle, 100 keywords tracked daily on desktop in 1 country, and weekly scheduled crawls.

• Team$216

  per month for 150,000 pages, billed yearly ($270 billed monthly)

  3 seats, 10 websites, 1,000 daily keywords in 3 countries, GA4 and Semrush connections, SERP feature tracking and PDF reports.

• Pro$376

  per month for 600,000 pages, billed yearly ($470 billed monthly)

  5 seats, 20 websites, 2,000 daily keywords, log analysis of 2 million rows a day, JavaScript rendering and daily scheduled crawls.

• Advanced$571

  per month for 1.5M pages, billed yearly ($714 billed monthly)

  10 seats, 50 websites, 5,000 daily keywords, 5 million log rows a day, REST API and MCP access, Slack alerts and branded reports.

• Enterprise€1,200

  per month and up, billed yearly (€1,500 billed monthly)

  Unlimited websites and seats, 6 million+ crawled pages, 15 million+ log rows a day, a dedicated SEO coach and an SLA. Priced in euros only.

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.

FandangoSEO

• Annual discount

  Save 20% with yearly billing

  FandangoSEO's pricing page marks yearly billing at 20% off: Starter is $90 a month billed yearly instead of $113 billed monthly.

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.