Screaming Frog SEO Spider vs SiteGuru (2026): which should you pick?

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

Pick SiteGuru if

• Fits if you're a small agency sending audits to clients under your own brand
• Works for marketers who want a short list of fixes instead of a full crawl export

Look elsewhere if

• Too light for sites past 5,000 pages, the audit cap on every plan
• Watch out: the three paid plans share the same page and keyword limits, so paying more buys websites, not depth
• Skip it if you were counting on the free plan, as the pricing page doesn't say what it includes

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.

SiteGuru

• Every plan caps audits at 5,000 pages and 2,500 keywords per site, so it does not suit very large sites.
• The three paid plans share the same page, keyword and audit limits; they differ in websites, competitor analyses and support.
• The pricing page does not say what the free plan keeps after the 6-week trial.

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.

SiteGuru

Technical audit and task list

Weekly scheduled crawls plus unlimited manual ones check up to 5,000 pages per site and sort the issues into a list of what to fix first.

Indexation, sitemaps and hreflang

Tracks which pages Google has indexed, keeps XML sitemaps clean, validates hreflang tags and checks structured data for rich results.

Keyword and content reports

Groups keywords into search topics and flags content decay, low-hanging keywords, branded versus non-branded traffic and Google update effects.

AI traffic report

From Google Analytics data, shows how many visits come from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini and Claude, and which pages they land on.

Links

Suggests internal links to underperforming pages, finds broken links and redirects, and monitors backlinks' anchor text and status codes.

White-label reports and MCP

PDF and HTML reports under your own logo and subdomain, a custom report builder, unlimited client seats, Slack and webhooks, and MCP access for AI assistants.

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.

SiteGuru

• Free$0

  The free features left after the trial ends; the pricing page does not spell them out.

• Small$39

  per month for 5 websites, billed annually ($49 billed monthly)

  5,000 pages and 2,500 keywords per site, 15 competitor analyses a month, unlimited users, white-label reports and MCP access.

• Medium$79

  per month for 15 websites, billed annually ($99 billed monthly)

  Everything in Small for 15 websites, with 45 competitor analyses a month.

• Large$159

  per month for 50 websites, billed annually ($199 billed monthly)

  Everything in Small for 50 websites, with 150 competitor analyses a month and priority support.

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.

SiteGuru

• Annual discount

  Save 20% with annual billing

  SiteGuru's pricing page lists annual billing at 20% less: Small is $39 a month billed annually instead of $49 billed monthly.