Lumar vs searchVIU (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, searchVIU grades higher than Lumar: 2.2 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Lumar grades higher on value for money. searchVIU grades higher on the free plan. They get the same grade on features, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
searchVIU
Managed SEO crawling and monitoring with reports built by its team
Free trial · from €399/mo
Which one is for you
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
Pick searchVIU if
- Fits if your in-house team at an online shop wants monitoring set up and explained for you
- Makes sense if you're planning a relaunch or domain move and need old and new sites compared
Look elsewhere if
- Pricey if you're a small site, as Basic alone is €399 a month and prices are in euros only
- Not for you if you want to sign up and start today, as trials go through a form and a call
- Tight if you need log file analysis, BI feeds or Merchant Center monitoring, which are Advanced only at €549
- Watch out: crawling past 50,000 URLs costs €50 a month more per extra 50,000, up to 500,000
How we grade them
| 2.0GPALumarFair | 2.2GPAsearchVIUFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | 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. | DBasic is €399 a month for up to 50,000 crawled URLs, in this category's dearest tenth, which starts at $99. Analyst-built reports and a monthly call are part of that. Each extra 50,000 URLs is €50 a month more. |
| Free plan and trial | FNothing free on record: the site mentions no free plan and no trial. Access starts with a demo or a quote. | CNo free plan. A free trial is requested through a form on the pricing page and arranged through a first call; its length isn't stated. |
| Features | 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. | BDaily checks of 2,000 key pages, weekly full crawls with JavaScript rendering, alerts on new 404s and noindex tags, crawl comparisons and relaunch checks that match old URLs to new. It covers crawling and monitoring, with log files on Advanced. |
| Ease of use | 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. | CNo rating on record. Its team builds the reports, but buying starts with a form and a call, and Search Console and Analytics are connected before it's useful. |
| Platforms and integrations | 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. | BWeb only, linked to Search Console, Google Analytics, Looker Studio and Merchant Center. No desktop or phone app, and no API on record. |
| Best for | crawling very large sites before each release | crawling and monitoring with reports built for you |
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: Lumar and searchVIU. How we grade
Where they differ
- Lumar also covers dashboards, AI search visibility and page speed.
- searchVIU also covers reports and log file analysis.
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At a glance
| Lumar | searchVIU | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Free trial |
| Starts at | Not published | €399 per month for up to 50,000 crawled URLs, billed monthly |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | None listed | Free trial requested through a form on the pricing page; its length is not stated |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Lumar | searchVIU GmbH |
| Price read from | Not confirmed | searchviu.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
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.
searchVIU
- Prices are given in euros only. Crawling past 50,000 URLs costs €50 more a month per extra 50,000, up to 500,000.
- There is no self-serve sign-up; trials and demos are arranged through a form and a first call.
- Log file analysis, BI data feeds and product feed monitoring come only with Advanced.
- Its free stand-alone tools, such as the robots.txt checker and hreflang tester, are separate from the paid plans.
Key features
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.
searchVIU
- Daily page monitoring
- Checks the 2,000 (Basic) or 5,000+ (Advanced) pages that matter most every day, with weekly crawls of the whole site.
- JavaScript rendering
- Renders pages the way Google does on both plans, so content and links added by scripts are crawled.
- Alerts and change tracking
- Sends alerts on critical issues such as 404s and noindex tags, and compares crawls to list new, removed and changed pages.
- Reports built for you
- searchVIU's analysts build custom reports and data exports in Looker Studio, joined with Search Console and Analytics data.
- Relaunch checks
- Crawls the live and development versions of a site, flags lost content and links, and matches old URLs to new ones for redirect mapping.
- Log files and feeds
- Advanced adds log file analysis of bot behavior, faceted navigation checks and monitoring of Merchant Center product feeds.
Plans
Lumar
Pricing could not be confirmed. See lumar.io.
searchVIU
Basic€399
per month for up to 50,000 crawled URLs, billed monthly
Daily checks of 2,000 key pages, weekly crawls with JavaScript rendering, alerts, Search Console and Analytics data, and a 30-minute monthly call.
Advanced€549
per month for up to 50,000 crawled URLs, billed monthly
Daily checks of 5,000+ pages, log file analysis, data from feeds and databases, BI data feeds, Merchant Center monitoring and a 1-hour monthly call.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Lumar or searchVIU?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Lumar has no price we could confirm, and searchVIU starts at €399 per month for up to 50,000 crawled URLs, billed monthly.
Which has a free plan, Lumar or searchVIU?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither Lumar nor searchVIU has a free plan. searchVIU 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.