SiteGuru vs Website Crawler (2026): which should you pick?

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

Pick Website Crawler if

• Fits if your site needs a crawler for a few dollars a month
• Works for developers pulling crawl data into their own code through the API

Look elsewhere if

• Tight if you stay free, as demo reports such as duplicates and Search Console show 5 URLs
• Watch out: page credits are shared by every project and expire at the end of each month
• Skip it if your site sits behind anti-bot tools, unless you add your own residential proxy
• Tight if you need JavaScript rendering, which the free plan doesn't include

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.

Website Crawler

• On the free plan, reports marked demo, such as duplicate content, cannibalization and Search Console data, show only 5 URLs.
• Page credits are shared by all projects in the account and expire at the end of each month.
• It cannot crawl sites behind anti-bot tools or blocked where it is hosted unless you add your own residential proxy.
• Refunds are offered within 14 days of buying a plan, on request by email with a reason.

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.

Website Crawler

Technical SEO reports

Finds broken links, redirect chains, canonical errors, duplicate titles and descriptions, heading gaps, missing alt text, thin content and hreflang problems.

JavaScript rendering

Paid plans can switch from the faster HTML crawler to a Chrome mode that runs each page's JavaScript before checking it, so single-page apps can be crawled.

Custom data extraction

Scrapes chosen data from pages with CSS selectors, XPath or a JavaScript snippet, exported as CSV, JSON or Markdown, with optional residential proxies.

Page speed and rendering

Paid plans add Core Web Vitals through a PageSpeed Insights key, console errors, render-blocking resources, CSS and JavaScript coverage, and screenshots.

Monitoring and scheduled crawls

Watches pages for changes and keeps up to 10 snapshots, alerts on downtime and SSL expiry, schedules crawls and compares two crawls side by side.

API and Search Console

An API with SDKs for Python, Go, JavaScript, Rust, PHP and Java starts crawls and returns the data as JSON; Search Console data can be filtered by keyword.

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.

Website Crawler

• Basic$0

  1,000 pages a month and 1 project with the HTML crawler, data extraction, API access and 3 page monitors. No card required.

• Starter$10

  per month for 2,000 pages, billed monthly

  3 projects and 2 users, JavaScript rendering, all reports, Core Web Vitals, white-label PDFs, 5-minute uptime checks and 20 page monitors.

• Growth$20

  per month for 10,000 pages, billed monthly

  10 projects and 4 users, 3-minute uptime checks, 100 page monitors and priority support.

• Scale$60

  per month for 50,000 pages, billed monthly

  50 projects and 10 users, 1-minute uptime checks, 500 page monitors and priority support.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Up to 1 million pages a month and 100 projects, unlimited team members and the fastest crawl speed. The page puts it at around $90 a month and up.

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.

Website Crawler

• Annual discount

  10% off with annual billing

  Website Crawler's pricing page shows a 10% discount on the annual plans, which are paid yearly and renew each year.