Redirection.io vs Screaming Frog SEO Spider (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Redirection.io if

• Fits if your marketing team keeps waiting on developers to add redirects
• Works for sites mid-migration that need to see which old URLs still return 404s

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you stay free, at 10 rules, 1 day of logs and 10,000 log lines a day
• Pricey if you need support, segments or rule compliance tests, which start at €150 a month on Pro
• Watch out: the crawler runs on credits bought separately, €22 for 50,000 pages
• Not for you if nobody can install its agent, server module or edge integration and a hosted instance won't do
• Watch out: prices are in euros before VAT, each plan covers one project, and Starter has no setup help

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

Redirection.io

• Prices are in euros and exclude VAT, and each plan covers one project.
• Starter stops at 1,000 rules with no setup help; segments, advanced triggers, compliance tests and support need Pro, from €150 a month.
• The crawler runs on credits bought separately: 50,000 pages cost €22 as a one-off pack.
• Without a hosted managed instance it needs an agent, a web server module or an edge integration; Starter allows 5 managed instances and 100 GB of traffic a month.

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.

Redirection.io

Redirect rules

Set up simple one-to-one redirects or pattern rules with wildcards and regular expressions, matched on URLs, headers and query strings. New rules apply in under 20 seconds.

Real-time traffic logs

Every request is logged and grouped so recurring HTTP errors stand out, with email, Slack or webhook alerts on paid plans.

Test rules on past traffic

See how a new ruleset would have changed real requests before publishing it. Pro adds a check that flags overwritten rules, redirect chains and loops.

SEO crawler

Crawls a site and reports more than 60 indicators per page on content, structure and technical issues, with scheduled crawls and comparisons between runs.

Recipes, meta tags and headers

One-click recipes for common fixes such as forcing HTTPS, blocking AI bots or adding security headers, plus page meta tag editing.

Log-based analytics

Visitors, pageviews, referrers, UTM campaigns and user paths worked out from server logs, with no JavaScript snippet on the page.

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.

Redirection.io

• Free€0

  10 rules, 1 day of detailed logs capped at 10,000 lines a day, 1 month of statistics and crawler access.

• Starter€20

  per month for 100 rules, billed yearly (€25 billed monthly)

  1,000 rules cost €80 a month billed yearly (€100 monthly). 1 week of logs, 100,000 lines a day, API and notifications. Self-service only.

• Pro€150

  per month and up

  Up to 2,000,000 rules, 2 weeks of logs, 2 million lines a day, segments, advanced triggers, rule compliance tests and support. Sold through sales.

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.

Redirection.io

• Annual discount

  Save 20% with yearly billing

  The pricing page lists Starter at €20 a month billed yearly instead of €25 billed monthly, or €80 instead of €100 for 1,000 rules.

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.