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

Pick JetOctopus if

• Fits if you run an e-commerce or listing site with millions of URLs
• Works for agencies that need unlimited seats and projects across client sites

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you're one person or a small site, at $349 a month even on annual billing
• Watch out: quarterly billing costs about 30% more, $459 against $349 a month on Growth
• Tight if you're judging it on the trial, which stops at 10,000 URLs and 500-row exports
• Not for you if you want a refund safety net, as refunds cover only duplicate purchases and faults on JetOctopus's side

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

JetOctopus

• There is no free plan; the trial caps crawls at 10,000 URLs, 3 months of Search Console data and 500-row exports.
• Paying quarterly instead of annually costs about 30% more, for example $459 against $349 a month on Growth.
• Agency plans are $409, $809 and $1,729 a month billed annually, with more GSC properties and lifetime data but lower log-line caps.
• Refunds are limited to duplicate purchases and modules that could not be used because of a problem on JetOctopus's side.

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.

JetOctopus

Log Analyzer

Shows which pages Googlebot and 40+ search and AI bots visit and how often, from Nginx, Apache, Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, Vercel or Shopify logs.

JavaScript crawler

Crawls with JavaScript rendering to compare what bots and users see, with crawl-to-crawl comparison, segmentation and unlimited simultaneous crawls.

Search Console data

Pulls Search Console data past the 1,000-row interface limit, keeps it beyond Google's 16 months, and flags cannibalization and query fan-outs.

AI Internal Linker

Suggests internal links from strong pages to weak ones to strengthen topic clusters and spread crawl budget.

Alerts

Sends alerts on changes in indexability, Core Web Vitals and Googlebot or AI bot behavior.

API, MCP and Looker Studio

An API, an MCP server for querying crawl, log and Search Console data from AI assistants, and a Looker Studio connector, with BigQuery export for GSC data.

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.

JetOctopus

• Growth$349

  per month for 500,000 URLs, billed annually ($459 billed quarterly)

  In-house plan: 2M log lines a month, 3 Search Console and GA4 properties, unlimited projects and seats, 12 months of data.

• Pro$809

  per month for 2M URLs, billed annually ($1,089 billed quarterly)

  In-house plan: 8M log lines a month, 10 Search Console and GA4 properties and one tech SEO audit a year.

• Ultra$1,559

  per month for 5M URLs, billed annually ($2,069 billed quarterly)

  In-house plan: 25M log lines a month, 20 Search Console and GA4 properties, a Slack support channel and three audits a year.

• UnlimitedCustom

  Custom crawl volume, unlimited log lines and properties, data kept for the life of the subscription, and 24/7 dedicated support.

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.

JetOctopus

• Annual discount

  Save 25% with annual billing

  JetOctopus's pricing page shows a 25% saving for annual billing over quarterly: Growth is $349 a month billed annually instead of $459.

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.