Lumar vs Sitebulb (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Sitebulb grades higher than Lumar: 2.6 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 17, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 17, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Lumar grades higher on features. Sitebulb grades higher on value for money, the free plan and ease of use. They get the same grade on platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Sitebulb
Website auditing crawler for Windows and Mac, with a cloud edition
Free trial · from $18/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 Sitebulb if
- Fits if you want each audit finding ranked by priority with an explanation of what to do
- Works for freelancers auditing sites under 10,000 URLs, from $180 a year on Lite
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if your site is big, as Lite stops at 10,000 URLs per audit and lacks scheduling, comparisons and several reports
- Pricey if you want it in the browser, as Sitebulb Cloud starts at $125 a month and needs at least 2 users
- Skip it if you need keyword research or rank tracking, as it only audits
- Watch out: desktop crawls depend on your computer; Pro's default cap is 500,000 URLs, and more users are from $11 a month each
- Watch out: there's no free plan after the 14-day trial, and paying by invoice or purchase order is for yearly plans only
How we grade them
| 2.0GPALumarFair | 2.6GPASitebulbGood | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | BGraded against its alternatives. Lite is $180 a year, $15 a month, for 1 user and 10,000 URLs per audit, cheaper than Screaming Frog's $279 and far under Semrush or Ahrefs. Pro, with scheduling and comparisons, is $425 a year. |
| 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, but the 14-day trial needs no card and works like Sitebulb Pro on the desktop. |
| 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. | CIt does the audit job fully: 100+ hints on Lite or 300+ on Pro, JavaScript crawling on every plan, crawl maps and MCP. But auditing is one slice of SEO, and Lite lacks scheduling, comparisons and several report types. |
| 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. | BNo rating on record, but there's little to set up: install it, start an audit, and each problem comes ranked by priority with an explanation in plain terms. |
| 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. | BDesktop apps for Windows and Mac plus Sitebulb Cloud in the browser, with Google Analytics, Search Console, Sheets, Looker Studio, Claude and ChatGPT. The cloud version is priced separately, from $125 a month. |
| Best for | crawling very large sites before each release | site audits explained in plain words |
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 Sitebulb. How we grade
Where they differ
- Lumar also covers dashboards, AI search visibility and page speed.
- Sitebulb also covers reports.
In commonWebSite audit
At a glance
| Lumar | Sitebulb | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Free trial |
| Starts at | Not published | $18 per month, billed monthly |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | None listed | 14-day free trial equal to Sitebulb Pro desktop, no credit card |
| Web | ||
| macOS | ||
| Windows | ||
| Made by | Lumar | Sitebulb Limited |
| Price read from | Not confirmed | sitebulb.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 17, 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.
Sitebulb
- Lite caps each audit at 10,000 URLs and lacks scheduling, comparisons and several report types.
- Desktop crawls are limited by the computer: Pro's default cap is 500,000 URLs, raisable to 2 million.
- Sitebulb Cloud is priced separately, from $125 a month, and needs at least 2 users.
- Purchase order and invoice payment is only for yearly 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.
Sitebulb
- Prioritized hints
- Each audit flags issues against 100+ hints on Lite or 300+ on Pro, ranked by priority and explained in plain terms.
- JavaScript crawling
- Render JavaScript-heavy sites during a crawl on every plan, at no extra cost.
- Audit comparison and scheduling
- On Pro, compare audits to see what changed and schedule audits to run automatically, with auto-export to Google Sheets.
- Crawl maps and reports
- See site structure as visual crawl maps, and on Pro produce customized PDF reports for clients.
- Pro-only checks
- Pro adds performance and mobile, structured data, hreflang, spelling, accessibility and AMP reports.
- MCP access
- Connect audits to Claude, ChatGPT and other AI tools through Sitebulb's MCP server, included on every plan.
Plans
Lumar
Pricing could not be confirmed. See lumar.io.
Sitebulb
Lite$18
per month, billed monthly
Desktop, 1 user, 10,000 URLs per audit, 100+ hints, JavaScript crawling, crawl maps and GA, GSC and Sheets integration.
Pro$42
per month, billed monthly
Desktop price for 1 user; more users from $11 a month each. 500,000 URLs per audit, 300+ hints, scheduling, comparisons, PDF reports.
Sitebulb Cloud$125
per month and up, billed monthly
Browser-based cloud crawling for 2+ users, no project limits, recurring crawls and Data Studio integration.
Ways to pay less
Lumar
No public discounts listed.
Sitebulb
- Annual discount
Save 15% with yearly plans
Paid yearly, Lite is $180 a year and Pro $425 for 1 user, with extra users at $115.60 a year; Sitebulb Cloud starts at $1,500 a year.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Lumar or Sitebulb?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Lumar has no price we could confirm, and Sitebulb starts at $18 per month, billed monthly.
Which has a free plan, Lumar or Sitebulb?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither Lumar nor Sitebulb has a free plan. Sitebulb has a free trial.
Which platforms do Lumar and Sitebulb run on?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Sitebulb lists macOS and Windows apps. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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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.