SiteAnalyzer vs Visual SEO Studio (2026): which should you pick?

Pick SiteAnalyzer if

• Fits if you're an SEO freelancer on Windows who'd rather pay once than subscribe
• Works for studying how internal links and PageRank flow through a site

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you work on a Mac or Linux, as it's Windows only and Wine or CrossOver are the vendor's workarounds
• Not for you if your site loads links with JavaScript, which it doesn't render yet
• Tight if you stay free, at 100 pages a crawl, 1 project and 1 thread
• Watch out: the home page table shows 500 pages and 5 threads for free, while the pricing page says 100 and 1
• Pricey if you work across several computers, as each $108 license covers one

Pick Visual SEO Studio if

• Fits if your site is under 500 pages and you want a free desktop crawler
• Works for SEOs who manage XML sitemaps and hreflang on international sites

Look elsewhere if

• Watch out: the newest version on its download page is from February 2023
• Too light for big sites on the free edition, which stops at 500 pages a crawl with no support
• Skip it if you use Linux or want a web app, as it's Windows and Mac only
• Tight if you work on several computers, as Professional is licensed per PC, per year, in euros

SiteAnalyzer

• It runs only on Windows; the vendor suggests Wine on Linux and CrossOver on a Mac as workarounds.
• It does not render JavaScript, so links loaded by scripts are missed; the FAQ says rendering is planned.
• The pricing page caps the free version at 100 pages and 1 thread, while the home page table shows 500 pages and 5 threads.
• Each Pro license covers one computer; refunds are offered within 30 days of purchase.

Visual SEO Studio

• The Community Edition stops at 500 pages per crawl and includes no technical support.
• Professional is priced in euros only and is licensed per year for one PC.
• The latest version on the download page, 2.5.3, is dated February 2023.
• There is no Linux or web version.

SiteAnalyzer

Technical SEO audit

More than 60 preset filters pick out problems such as duplicate titles, 404 errors, redirect chains and oversized images, with a 0 to 100 score.

Link graph and internal PageRank

Draws the site's internal links as an interactive graph and calculates internal PageRank for each page, with anchor text statistics.

Search Console and Yandex data

Pulls indexing, traffic, bounce rate and ranking queries per page from Google Search Console, Yandex Webmaster and Yandex Metrica.

Data scraping

Extracts content from a list of URLs with XPath, CSS selectors, XQuery or regular expressions, and exports it to Excel.

Duplicate content checks

Batch-checks pages for text that is not unique within the domain and lists duplicate pages.

Exports and sitemaps

Exports any data or the audit report to Excel or PDF, the site structure to mind map tools, and generates XML sitemaps.

Visual SEO Studio

Site crawler

Follows internal links like a search spider, and in the Professional Edition can also crawl a list of URLs or the pages in an XML sitemap.

Reports and custom filters

Ready-made reports cover common SEO issues, and a query engine lets you filter crawl data your own way.

XML sitemap tools

A visual editor to pick which pages go in a sitemap, plus sitemap validation and, in Professional, sitemap audits.

hreflang and international checks

Checks hreflang annotations in bulk, supports Unicode URLs and IDN domains, and runs readability analysis in 4 languages.

robots.txt editor

A robots.txt viewer and editor with syntax highlighting and a syntax checker for several search engines.

Search engine data

The Professional Edition pulls in Google Search Console and Bing search traffic data and Moz link metrics.

SiteAnalyzer

• Free$0

  100 pages per crawl, 1 saved project and 1 thread, for a small site on one computer.

• Pro$108

  one-time, per computer

  Unlimited pages and projects, up to 99 threads and free updates. Shown as reduced from a crossed-out $120; the price per computer falls for teams.

Visual SEO Studio

• Community€0

  For small sites and bloggers: up to 500 pages per crawl, 2 connections, broken links, meta data, hreflang and XML sitemap generation.

• Professional€149

  per year, per PC, plus VAT for EU consumers

  Up to 150,000 pages and 32 connections, URL-list crawls, sitemap audits, Search Console, Bing and Moz data, HTTP login and support.

SiteAnalyzer

• Other savings

  Volume discount for teams

  The pricing page lowers the Pro price per computer as more are bought: $99 each for 3 to 5, down to $72 each for 21 or more, a 33% saving.

Visual SEO Studio

No public discounts listed.