Mageworx SEO Suite Ultimate vs Screaming Frog SEO Spider (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Mageworx SEO Suite Ultimate if

• Fits if you run a large Magento 2 or Adobe Commerce catalog
• Makes sense if you'd rather pay once than subscribe

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if your store isn't on Magento 2.4 or Adobe Commerce
• Pricey if you're on Adobe Commerce, where the same extension is $598
• Watch out: updates and support stop after a year unless you renew at 40% off the list price
• Watch out: installation ($69), priority support ($99) and SEO configuration ($349) are extras
• Not for you if you want to try it first: there's no trial, and Marketplace copies get 25 days for returns, not 60

Pick Screaming Frog SEO Spider if

• Fits if you're a technical SEO who audits large sites from your own computer
• Works for sites under 500 URLs, which the free version crawls with no time limit

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want keyword research, rank tracking or backlinks, as it only crawls
• Not for you if you'd rather not learn technical SEO terms, XPath or regex
• Tight if your computer is short on memory or storage, since crawl size depends on it, and there's no web or phone version
• Pricey if a team needs it: licences are $279 per user a year, so two people need two
• Watch out: the free version can't save crawls, render JavaScript, schedule audits or connect to Google data

Mageworx SEO Suite Ultimate

• Runs only on Magento 2 (2.4.x) and Adobe Commerce; Adobe Commerce editions cost $598 rather than $299.
• Updates and support last 1 year; after that they renew yearly at 40% off the list price, while the license itself has no recurring payment.
• Installation ($69), priority support ($99) and an advanced SEO configuration service ($349) are paid extras.
• A 60-day money-back guarantee covers purchases on mageworx.com; copies bought on Magento Marketplace fall under its 25-day policy.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

• Licences are per user and last one year; two people need two licences.
• It is a desktop app, so crawl size depends on the computer's memory and storage.
• The free version cannot save crawls, render JavaScript, schedule audits or connect to Google data.

Mageworx SEO Suite Ultimate

SEO templates

Fill in meta titles, descriptions, keywords and other values in bulk for products and categories from templates, instead of page by page.

Canonicals, meta robots and hreflang

Sets canonical URLs (including cross-domain and layered navigation pages), meta robots by product, category or filter combination, and hreflang for localized stores.

Rich snippets and sitemaps

Adds product and category rich snippets, Open Graph and Twitter Cards, breadcrumbs markup, and XML and HTML sitemaps that split for catalogs over 50,000 links.

Cross-linking and redirects

Turns chosen keywords into links to products, categories or CMS pages, redirects deleted products automatically, and imports custom 301 and 302 redirects from CSV.

SEO reports

Reports duplicate, missing, too long or too short meta titles, descriptions, names and URLs across product, category and CMS pages.

AI writing and llms.txt

Generates meta tags and descriptions with OpenAI or Google Gemini, and builds llms.txt files for AI assistants while tracking visits from verified AI crawlers.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Technical SEO audit

Find broken links, server errors, redirect chains, missing or duplicate titles and descriptions, and directives such as noindex and canonicals.

JavaScript rendering

With a licence, render pages in a built-in Chromium to crawl sites built with frameworks such as React, Angular and Vue.

Custom extraction and search

Pull any data from page HTML with XPath, CSS Path or regex, and search source code across a whole crawl (licence only).

Google and AI integrations

Pull Google Analytics, Search Console and PageSpeed Insights data into a crawl, or run pages through OpenAI and Gemini (licence only).

Scheduling and crawl comparison

Schedule crawls with exports to Google Sheets or run them from the command line, and compare crawls or staging against production.

Site visualisations and sitemaps

See site structure as force-directed and tree diagrams, and generate XML and image sitemaps from a crawl.

Mageworx SEO Suite Ultimate

• Open Source (CE)$299

  one-time, with 1 year of updates and support

  For Magento Open Source 2.4.x. Lifetime access to unencrypted source code; later years of updates and support cost 40% off the list price.

• Commerce (EE / ECE)$598

  one-time, with 1 year of updates and support

  For Adobe Commerce and Commerce on Cloud: the edition option adds $299 to the $299 base price. Same features and renewal terms.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

• Free$0

  Up to 500 URLs per crawl, broken links, redirects, metadata, duplicates, XML sitemaps and site visualisations.

• Paid licence$279

  per user / year, for 1 to 4 licences

  No crawl limit beyond memory and storage, saved crawls, scheduling, JavaScript rendering, crawl comparison, integrations and support. £199 in pounds.

Mageworx SEO Suite Ultimate

• Other savings

  Loyalty program with reward points and bulk discounts

  Mageworx's FAQ says account holders earn reward points and can get bulk and upgrade discounts on its extensions.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

• Other savings

  Volume pricing from 5 licences

  Buying 5 to 9 licences at once costs $265 each a year, 10 to 19 cost $249 each, and 20 or more cost $235 each, against $279 for 1 to 4.