Oncrawl vs searchVIU (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, searchVIU grades higher than Oncrawl: 2.2 against 2.0 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
Oncrawl 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 Oncrawl if
- Fits if you run an e-commerce, media or listing site with millions of pages
- Works for teams that want crawl data and server logs read together
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want a price before a demo, as none is published
- Skip it if you want to try it first, since the site offers no free plan or trial
- Tight if you render JavaScript or audit Core Web Vitals, at 3 or 5 tokens a URL against a monthly quota
- Watch out: deleted crawls still use their tokens, and advanced settings need a verified domain
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
| 2.0GPAOncrawlFair | 2.2GPAsearchVIUFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CNo price is published. Plans are sold after a demo, so you only learn the cost on a sales call. Each plan carries a monthly crawl quota in tokens, and fetched URLs still use tokens even if you delete the crawl. | 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: no free plan, and the site offers no free trial. You start with a demo. | 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 | BA JavaScript crawler with custom extraction and crawl comparison, unsampled log analysis from Cloudflare, AWS, Google Cloud or Azure, AI Search and Content Lenses, and Search Console, GA4 and Majestic data side by side. The listing shows no 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. There are logs to connect, tokens to budget (1 per URL, 3 with JavaScript, 5 with Core Web Vitals) and a domain to verify before the advanced crawl settings open up. | 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. It connects to Search Console, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Piano, Majestic, Cloudflare, Looker Studio and Dataiku, with a REST API, its own query language and an MCP server. | 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 | crawl and log analysis on large sites | 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: Oncrawl and searchVIU. How we grade
Where they differ
- Oncrawl also covers dashboards, AI search visibility and internal linking.
- searchVIU also covers reports.
In commonWebSite auditLog file analysis
At a glance
| Oncrawl | 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 | Oncrawl | searchVIU GmbH |
| Price read from | Not confirmed | searchviu.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Oncrawl
- No prices are published; plans are sold after a demo, and no free trial is offered on the site.
- Each plan has a monthly crawl quota in tokens: 1 per URL crawled, 3 with JavaScript rendering, 5 with Core Web Vitals or accessibility audits.
- URLs fetched still use tokens even if the crawl is deleted afterwards.
- Advanced crawl settings need the domain to be verified as yours.
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
Oncrawl
- Crawler
- Crawls millions of URLs with JavaScript rendering, custom extraction, scheduled crawls, crawl-over-crawl comparison and alerts on regressions.
- Log Analyzer
- Ingests server logs from Cloudflare, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure or uploaded files, unsampled, to show how search and AI bots crawl each page.
- AI Search Lens
- Uses log data to count visits from the AI user bots of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Mistral and Gemini, and links them to depth, speed and other crawl metrics.
- Content Lens
- Uses AI to assess the quality and SEO readiness of content across a whole site, with prioritized recommendations.
- Ranking and traffic data
- Connects Search Console, GA4, Adobe Analytics, Piano and Majestic, and keeps Search Console history beyond Google's own retention limit.
- API, OQL and MCP
- A REST API and the Oncrawl Query Language export data and trigger crawls; an MCP server lets ChatGPT, Claude or Cursor query it.
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
Oncrawl
Pricing could not be confirmed. See oncrawl.com.
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, Oncrawl or searchVIU?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Oncrawl 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, Oncrawl or searchVIU?
As of Oct 23, 2026, neither Oncrawl 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.