Little Warden vs SiteGuru (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Little Warden and SiteGuru share a 2.2 GPA, and only SiteGuru has a free plan.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
They get the same grade on all five counts.
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
SiteGuru
SEO audit tool that turns site crawls into a prioritized task list
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 SiteGuru if
- Fits if you're a small agency sending audits to clients under your own brand
- Works for marketers who want a short list of fixes instead of a full crawl export
Look elsewhere if
- Too light for sites past 5,000 pages, the audit cap on every plan
- Watch out: the three paid plans share the same page and keyword limits, so paying more buys websites, not depth
- Skip it if you were counting on the free plan, as the pricing page doesn't say what it includes
How we grade them
| 2.2GPALittle WardenFair | 2.2GPASiteGuruFair | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | CSmall is $39 a month billed annually ($49 monthly) for 5 websites, above this category's middle of $29. Users are unlimited, but the dearer plans add only websites, competitor analyses and support, not bigger audits. |
| Free plan and trial | CNo free plan, but the 40-day trial needs no card. | CA 6-week trial with no card and no automatic billing, then a free plan. The pricing page doesn't say what that free plan keeps, so we can't count on it. |
| 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. | CWeekly crawls, indexation and hreflang checks, structured data, content decay, AI referral traffic, internal links and backlink monitoring. The gap is size: every plan caps audits at 5,000 pages and 2,500 keywords per site. |
| 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 hands you a to-do list rather than raw crawl data, but you still connect Search Console and Google Analytics before most reports work. |
| 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. It connects to Search Console, Google Analytics and Slack, with webhooks and MCP access for Claude and ChatGPT. No desktop or phone app. |
| Best for | alerts when a site's settings change | audit to-do lists for small agencies |
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 SiteGuru. How we grade
Price against what you get
Little Warden starts at $34.99 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. SiteGuru starts at $39 a month and scores 2.3.
They score the same, and Little Warden starts $4.01 a month lower. Of the other technical SEO tools on the chart, 6 score higher than Little Warden for less, and 6 score higher than SiteGuru for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- SiteGuru also covers reports, backlink analysis, schema markup and internal linking.
At a glance
| Little Warden | SiteGuru | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | $34.99 per month for 20 URLs, billed monthly | $39 per month for 5 websites, billed annually ($49 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | After the 6-week trial the account can stay on a free plan with SiteGuru's free features; the pricing page does not list what those include. |
| Free trial | 40-day free trial, no credit card needed | 6-week free trial, no credit card required and no automatic billing |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Little Warden | SiteGuru |
| Price read from | littlewarden.com | siteguru.co |
| 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.
SiteGuru
- Every plan caps audits at 5,000 pages and 2,500 keywords per site, so it does not suit very large sites.
- The three paid plans share the same page, keyword and audit limits; they differ in websites, competitor analyses and support.
- The pricing page does not say what the free plan keeps after the 6-week trial.
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.
SiteGuru
- Technical audit and task list
- Weekly scheduled crawls plus unlimited manual ones check up to 5,000 pages per site and sort the issues into a list of what to fix first.
- Indexation, sitemaps and hreflang
- Tracks which pages Google has indexed, keeps XML sitemaps clean, validates hreflang tags and checks structured data for rich results.
- Keyword and content reports
- Groups keywords into search topics and flags content decay, low-hanging keywords, branded versus non-branded traffic and Google update effects.
- AI traffic report
- From Google Analytics data, shows how many visits come from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini and Claude, and which pages they land on.
- Links
- Suggests internal links to underperforming pages, finds broken links and redirects, and monitors backlinks' anchor text and status codes.
- White-label reports and MCP
- PDF and HTML reports under your own logo and subdomain, a custom report builder, unlimited client seats, Slack and webhooks, and MCP access for AI assistants.
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.
SiteGuru
Free$0
The free features left after the trial ends; the pricing page does not spell them out.
Small$39
per month for 5 websites, billed annually ($49 billed monthly)
5,000 pages and 2,500 keywords per site, 15 competitor analyses a month, unlimited users, white-label reports and MCP access.
Medium$79
per month for 15 websites, billed annually ($99 billed monthly)
Everything in Small for 15 websites, with 45 competitor analyses a month.
Large$159
per month for 50 websites, billed annually ($199 billed monthly)
Everything in Small for 50 websites, with 150 competitor analyses a month and priority support.
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.
SiteGuru
- Annual discount
Save 20% with annual billing
SiteGuru's pricing page lists annual billing at 20% less: Small is $39 a month billed annually instead of $49 billed monthly.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Little Warden or SiteGuru?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Little Warden is cheaper to start with: $34.99 a month, against $39 a month for SiteGuru. Little Warden starts at $34.99 per month for 20 URLs, billed monthly, and SiteGuru starts at $39 per month for 5 websites, billed annually ($49 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Little Warden or SiteGuru?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only SiteGuru has a free plan. Little Warden does not, though it 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.