Lumar vs Silktide (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Lumar grades higher than Silktide: 2.0 against 1.6 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Lumar grades higher on features and platforms. They get the same grade on value for money, the free plan and ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
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 Silktide if
- Fits if you run a large website and need accessibility, content and compliance checks in one place
- Works for teams that want a task list from each test
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want a price before talking to sales
- Skip it if you want a free plan or trial, none is listed
- Not for you if you run a small site, as it's pitched at big web estates
- Watch out: the plan limits aren't shown, only the names Grow, Protect and Complete
How we grade them
| 2.0GPALumarFair | 1.6GPASilktideWeak | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | CNo price is published: Silktide quotes by scope after contact, so there's nothing to set against the category's middle of $19. |
| 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. | FNothing free on the pricing page and no trial listed, so access starts with a quote. |
| 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. | CGovernance testing, content and link checks, AI visibility, analytics and a task workflow. The pricing page lists three plans without saying what each includes beyond SSO and SOC 2 on Complete. |
| 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 store rating on record. A platform for organizations, set up through its team. |
| 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. | CWeb only, and the listing names no integrations. |
| Best for | crawling very large sites before each release | website governance and AI visibility for large sites |
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 Silktide. How we grade
Where they differ
- Lumar also covers dashboards and page speed.
- Silktide also covers reports and web analytics.
In commonWebSite auditAI search visibility
At a glance
| Lumar | Silktide | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Paid |
| Starts at | Not published | Not published |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | Lumar | Silktide |
| Price read from | Not confirmed | Not confirmed |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Nov 13, 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.
Silktide
- No price is published; Silktide quotes by scope after contact.
- The pricing page lists Grow, Protect and Complete, but no figures or plan limits.
- SAML single sign-on and SOC 2 Type II assurance are listed under Complete.
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.
Silktide
- Governance testing
- Tests website pages and PDFs for content, accessibility, user experience and compliance in one tracked workflow.
- Content and link checks
- Covers spelling, grammar, readability, broken links and images, plus SEO and AEO content checks.
- AI visibility
- Monitors how AI assistants and search engines describe a brand and compares it with competitors.
- Analytics
- Connects traffic, journeys, clicks and scrolling to page content, with cookie-free measurement offered.
- Task workflow
- Findings become tasks that can be assigned and retested, with reporting across sites and groups of sites.
Plans
Lumar
Pricing could not be confirmed. See lumar.io.
Silktide
Pricing could not be confirmed. See silktide.com.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Lumar or Silktide?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Lumar has no price we could confirm, and Silktide has no price we could confirm.
Which has a free plan, Lumar or Silktide?
As of Nov 13, 2026, neither Lumar nor Silktide has a free plan.
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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.