Screaming Frog SEO Spider vs Seobility
We give Screaming Frog SEO Spider a 2.4 GPA and Seobility a 2.0, out of 4.0. Screaming Frog SEO Spider grades higher on value for money and 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.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Desktop website crawler for technical SEO audits
Seobility
Site audits, rank tracking and backlink monitoring in one web app
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAScreaming Frog SEO SpiderFair | 2.0GPASeobilityFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | BGraded against its alternatives. A licence is $279 a year per user, about $23.25 a month, with no crawl limit and JavaScript rendering. Only Sitebulb Lite is cheaper, and it stops at 10,000 URLs; Semrush and Ahrefs cost about five times as much. | CPremium is $671.04 a year, about $55.92 a month on yearly billing ($69.90 monthly), a little above this category's dearer quarter. That buys 3 projects, 25,000 pages per crawl and 300 keywords; white-label reports and team members need Professional. |
| Free plan and trial | BA free version with no sign-up crawls up to 500 URLs with the core audits, for as long as you like, so small sites can live on it. It can't save crawls, change settings, render JavaScript or pull in Google data. | CA free Basic plan with no time limit: 1 project, 100 pages per crawl, 10 tracked keywords and 5 tool credits a day, and you start each crawl by hand. Fine for a tiny site, tight for a business. Paid plans have a 14-day trial too. |
| Features | CIt does the crawling job fully: 300+ issues, JavaScript rendering, custom extraction, scheduling, crawl comparison and sitemaps. But that's one part of SEO, with no keyword research, rank tracking or backlink index. | CWhole-site audits with JavaScript, daily desktop rankings for Google's first two pages, 20 competitors, weekly backlink checks, uptime alerts and keyword research. Gaps: daily tracking past page two is an add-on, and AI tracking is listed as coming soon. |
| Ease of use | CNo rating on record. Enter a URL and it crawls, but reading the results takes technical SEO knowledge, and custom extraction runs on XPath, CSS Path or regex. | CNo rating on record. Projects, crawls and keyword lists all need setting up, and on the free plan there's a wait between crawls. |
| Platforms and integrations | CA program for Windows, Mac and Linux, linked to Google Analytics, Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, OpenAI, Gemini, Looker Studio and Sheets. Computers only, with no web or phone version. | CWeb only, with no integrations or API on record, just PDF and CSV exports. No desktop or phone app. |
| Best for | technical site audits on your own computer | site audits and rankings for small 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: Screaming Frog SEO Spider and Seobility. How we grade
Price against what you get
Screaming Frog SEO Spider starts at $23.25 a month when paid by the year for each person and scores 2.0 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Seobility starts at $69.90 a month and scores 2.0.
They score the same, and Screaming Frog SEO Spider starts $46.65 a month lower. Of the other SEO tools on the chart, 6 score higher than Screaming Frog SEO Spider for less, and 13 score higher than Seobility for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Screaming Frog SEO Spider starts at $279 per user / year. Seobility starts at $69.90 per month, billed monthly.
- Only Screaming Frog SEO Spider lists Windows, macOS and Linux apps.
- Only Seobility lists a web app.
- Seobility also covers keyword research, rank tracking and backlink analysis.
At a glance
| Screaming Frog SEO Spider | Seobility | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $279 per user / year | $69.90 per month, billed monthly |
| Free plan | Free version, no sign-up: crawls up to 500 URLs at a time with the core audits, but cannot save crawls, change the crawl configuration, render JavaScript or use integrations. | Basic plan, free with no time limit: 1 website project, 100 pages per crawl started by hand, 10 tracked keywords and 5 tool credits a day. |
| Free trial | None listed | 14-day free trial of the paid plans |
| Web | ||
| macOS | ||
| Windows | ||
| Linux | ||
| Made by | Screaming Frog Ltd | Seobility GmbH |
| Price read from | screamingfrog.co.uk | seobility.net |
| Checked | Oct 17, 2026 | Oct 17, 2026 |
Who each one suits
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
- Technical SEOs auditing large sites from their own computer
- Site migrations, where redirects and staging need checking against production
- Small sites under 500 URLs, which can use the free version indefinitely
Seobility
- Small businesses that want audits and rank tracking without a large suite
- Owners of a single small site who can live with the free plan
- Agencies sending branded reports for several client sites
Worth knowing
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.
Seobility
- The free Basic plan crawls only 100 pages, crawls must be started by hand, and there is a wait between crawls.
- Premium has no white-label reports or member accounts; those start at Professional at $109.90 a month.
- Extra projects cost $5.90 to $16.90 a month each and 100 extra keywords $7.90 to $11.90 a month, depending on plan.
- Daily tracking beyond Google's first two pages is a paid add-on, and AI visibility tracking is listed as coming soon.
Key features
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.
Seobility
- Website audit
- Crawls a whole site, with JavaScript if needed, and reports broken pages, meta data, duplicate content, slow pages, redirects and pages blocked to AI bots.
- Ranking monitoring
- Desktop rankings on Google's first two pages update daily and mobile every three days, down to city level, with Local Pack and AI Overview tracking.
- Competitor monitoring
- Compares a project's rankings with 20 to 30 competitors per project, depending on plan.
- Backlink monitoring
- A weekly overview of a domain's backlinks, with new and lost links compared with the week before.
- Uptime monitoring
- Checks that a site is up as often as every minute on Agency, or every 3 minutes on other paid plans, and sends alerts when it goes down.
- Keyword research and reports
- A keyword research tool with volume, CPC, competition and intent, plus PDF and CSV exports; white-label PDFs start at Professional.
Plans
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.
Seobility
Basic$0
1 project, 100 pages per crawl, 10 tracked keywords and 5 daily tool credits. Suited to small, non-commercial sites.
Premium$69.90
per month, billed monthly
3 projects, 25,000 pages per crawl, 300 keywords and 20 competitors. No white-label reports or team members. $671.04 a year if paid yearly.
Professional$109.90
per month, billed monthly
7 projects, 50,000 pages per crawl, 700 keywords, white-label reports and up to 3 member accounts. $1,055.04 a year if paid yearly.
Agency$239.90
per month, billed monthly
20 projects, 100,000 pages per crawl, 2,000 keywords, unlimited members and phone support. $2,303.04 a year if paid yearly.
Ways to pay less
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.
Seobility
- Annual discount
Save 20% with annual billing
Paid yearly, Premium is $671.04 a year instead of $838.80, Professional $1,055.04 instead of $1,318.80, and Agency $2,303.04 instead of $2,878.80.
