JetOctopus vs Website Crawler (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 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.