Little Warden vs Lumar (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Little Warden grades higher than Lumar: 2.2 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Little Warden grades higher on the free plan. Lumar grades higher on features. They get the same grade on value for money, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Little Warden
Website change monitoring for domains, SSL, redirects and SEO tags
Which one is for you
Pick Little Warden if
- Fits if you look after many client sites and need to know before a domain or SSL certificate lapses
- Works for teams that want a warning when a release changes robots.txt, noindex tags or redirects
Look elsewhere if
- Too light for full site audits, as it watches set URLs and never crawls the whole site
- Tight if you're on Freelancer, with 20 URLs, 1 team member, no API and 2 weeks of history
- Watch out: payments aren't refunded, and your data goes once a cancelled plan's period ends
Pick Lumar if
- Fits if your site has hundreds of thousands of pages and an enterprise budget
- Makes sense if you want SEO checks to block a release in your CI/CD pipeline
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want to see a price before talking to sales, as it's quote-only
- Skip it if you want to try it first, since there's no free plan or trial on record
- Tight if you crawl a lot, as active projects and URLs per billing period are capped by contract
- Watch out: SEO and GEO professional services are a separate monthly contract
How we grade them
| 2.2GPALittle WardenFair | 2.0GPALumarFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CFreelancer is $34.99 a month for 20 URLs, or $349.99 a year, right at this category's middle. 20 URLs is not many, and API access and more team members start on Small Team at $54.99. | CNo price is published. Lumar's pricing page is a quote form, so you only find out what it costs on a sales call, with packages built from the apps and metrics you pick. With no figure to compare, it sits at the ordinary grade. |
| Free plan and trial | CNo free plan, but the 40-day trial needs no card. | FNothing free on record: the site mentions no free plan and no trial. Access starts with a demo or a quote. |
| Features | C30+ checks on a schedule: renewals, redirects, robots.txt, canonicals, hreflang, sitemaps, Core Web Vitals, tag and content edits, DNS and malware. It does monitoring fully, but that's a smaller job, and it doesn't crawl a whole site to audit it. | BCrawls up to 450 URLs a second, with 350+ reports on technical SEO, AI search readiness, speed and WCAG accessibility. Monitor follows many domains, and Protect tests new code in GitHub, Jenkins, CircleCI or Azure DevOps. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core job. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. You add each URL, choose its checks and set up where alerts go before it watches anything. | CNo rating on record. It's four apps on one crawler, with projects, crawl schedules, speed limits and custom extractions to set up, and access goes through a demo first. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb only. Alerts go to Slack, email, a webhook or the API, and changes export to Google Sheets. No desktop or phone app. | BWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It links to Search Console, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Looker Studio, GitHub, Splunk, Slack and Zapier, and has a public API. |
| Best for | alerts when a site's settings change | crawling very large sites before each release |
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: Little Warden and Lumar. How we grade
Where they differ
- Lumar also covers dashboards and AI search visibility.
At a glance
| Little Warden | Lumar | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Paid |
| Starts at | $34.99 per month for 20 URLs, billed monthly | Not published |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | 40-day free trial, no credit card needed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Little Warden | Lumar |
| Price read from | littlewarden.com | Not confirmed |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Little Warden
- It monitors set URLs for changes; it does not crawl a whole site to audit it.
- The Freelancer plan has 1 team member, no API access and only 2 weeks of history.
- Payments are not refunded, and after cancelling the account is suspended and its data is no longer available once the period ends.
Lumar
- No prices are published: the pricing page is a quote form, and packages are built from the apps and metrics a team picks.
- Accounts have limits on active projects and on URLs crawled per billing period, set in each contract.
- No free plan or free trial is mentioned on the site; access starts with a demo or a quote.
- SEO and GEO professional services are sold as a separate monthly contract.
Key features
Little Warden
- Renewal report
- Lists upcoming domain name and SSL certificate expiry dates for every site, and the report can be imported into a calendar.
- Response and redirect checks
- Checks URL responses, HTTP to HTTPS and www redirects, the 404 page and geo redirects so a broken redirect is caught early.
- Search engine checks
- Watches robots.txt, indexability, canonical tags, hreflang, XML sitemaps and Core Web Vitals for changes.
- Content and tag monitoring
- Flags edits to title tags, meta descriptions, chosen elements or text matched by a regular expression, and changes to Google Analytics or Tag Manager code.
- DNS and malware checks
- Alerts on nameserver, MX record and IP address changes, and runs a malware detection check.
- Alerts and team access
- Sends changes to Slack, email, the API or a webhook, exports them to Google Sheets, and lets you control which team members and clients see what.
Lumar
- Cloud crawler
- Crawls run in the cloud at up to 450 URLs a second, or 350 rendered, with schedules, speed limits and a safeguard that pauses a crawl when failures pass a set rate.
- Analyze
- Lumar says Analyze has 350+ built-in reports on technical SEO, AI search readiness, site speed and accessibility, plus custom extractions from page HTML.
- Monitor
- Follows key metrics across several domains, site sections or country sites on shared dashboards, with alerts when new issues appear.
- Protect
- Runs automated SEO, speed and accessibility tests on new code, and can stop a build in GitHub, Jenkins, CircleCI or Azure DevOps when a test fails.
- GEO and AI visibility
- Reports on what may keep pages out of AI search answers and tracks brand mentions and sentiment on AI platforms, with AI-written suggestions.
- Accessibility and speed
- Tests pages against WCAG 2.2 levels A to AAA, and runs Lighthouse reports at scale alongside origin-level Chrome UX Report data.
Plans
Little Warden
Freelancer$34.99
per month for 20 URLs, billed monthly
Up to 10 checks per URL, 2 weeks of data retention and 1 team member. $349.99 billed yearly; £24.99 a month in pounds.
Small Team$54.99
per month for 100 URLs, billed monthly
Up to 15 checks per URL, 1 month of data retention, unlimited team members and API access. $549.99 billed yearly.
Agency$89.99
per month for 650 URLs, billed monthly
Up to 20 checks per URL, 3 months of data retention, unlimited team members and API access. $899.99 billed yearly.
Large Agency$199.99
per month for 5,000 URLs, billed monthly
Up to 30 checks per URL, 6 months of data retention, unlimited team members and API access. $1,999.99 billed yearly.
Lumar
Pricing could not be confirmed. See lumar.io.
Ways to pay less
Little Warden
- Annual discount
Two months free with annual billing
Little Warden's pricing page says annual billing gets 2 months free: Freelancer is $349.99 a year instead of $34.99 a month.
Lumar
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Little Warden or Lumar?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Little Warden starts at $34.99 per month for 20 URLs, billed monthly, and Lumar has no price we could confirm.
Which has a free plan, Little Warden or Lumar?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither Little Warden nor Lumar has a free plan. Little Warden 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.