Lumar review (2026): is it worth it?
Enterprise website crawler for technical SEO, GEO and accessibility
Lumar report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 23, 2026
Best for crawling very large sites before each release
Lumar is a cloud crawler for very large sites: up to 450 URLs a second, 350+ reports, and a Protect app that can stop a code release when an SEO test fails. You can't see a price or try it first, though. It's quote-only, with no free plan or trial, and crawl limits are set in each contract.
Who Lumar is for
- Fits if your site has hundreds of thousands of pages and an enterprise budget
- Makes sense if you want SEO checks to block a release in your CI/CD pipeline
Who Lumar is not for
- Not for you if you want to see a price before talking to sales, as it's quote-only
- Skip it if you want to try it first, since there's no free plan or trial on record
- Tight if you crawl a lot, as active projects and URLs per billing period are capped by contract
- Watch out: SEO and GEO professional services are a separate monthly contract
Why Lumar gets a 2.0
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyNo price is published. Lumar's pricing page is a quote form, so you only find out what it costs on a sales call, with packages built from the apps and metrics you pick. With no figure to compare, it sits at the ordinary grade.
- FFree plan and trialNothing free on record: the site mentions no free plan and no trial. Access starts with a demo or a quote.
- BFeaturesCrawls up to 450 URLs a second, with 350+ reports on technical SEO, AI search readiness, speed and WCAG accessibility. Monitor follows many domains, and Protect tests new code in GitHub, Jenkins, CircleCI or Azure DevOps. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core job.
- CEase of useNo rating on record. It's four apps on one crawler, with projects, crawl schedules, speed limits and custom extractions to set up, and access goes through a demo first.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, with no desktop or phone app. It links to Search Console, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Looker Studio, GitHub, Splunk, Slack and Zapier, and has a public API.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Lumar's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Lumar's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 10 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade, and level with 9.
It stands best on features (B, above 77 of 83) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 84 technical SEO tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Lumar’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 9 of 83, level with 33
- FFree plan and trialAbove 0 of 83, level with 11
- BFeaturesAbove 77 of 83, level with 5
- CEase of useAbove 7 of 83, level with 54
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 27 of 83, level with 56
Keep Lumar, or make your own?
Keep it
Nothing Lumar does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 7 things listed below take a company.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 64 of the 83 other technical SEO tools grade higher.
What you could not
- A crawler that checks every page of a site.
- The same prompts asked of ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI answers every day, and the answers kept.
- Speed tests run from real browsers on a schedule.
- Connections that pull numbers from dozens of other services.
- It plugs into other products, Google Search Console, Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics among them, and has an API.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Lumar’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Lumar?
Lumar, known as Deepcrawl until 2022, is a cloud platform for large websites. Its crawler feeds four apps: Analyze for audits, Monitor for tracking changes across domains, Protect for testing code before release, and Impact for reporting to stakeholders. Reports cover technical SEO, readiness for AI search, site speed, WCAG accessibility and custom metrics. It is aimed at enterprise teams and sold by quote.
Worth knowing
- No prices are published: the pricing page is a quote form, and packages are built from the apps and metrics a team picks.
- Accounts have limits on active projects and on URLs crawled per billing period, set in each contract.
- No free plan or free trial is mentioned on the site; access starts with a demo or a quote.
- SEO and GEO professional services are sold as a separate monthly contract.
Key features
- Cloud crawler
- Crawls run in the cloud at up to 450 URLs a second, or 350 rendered, with schedules, speed limits and a safeguard that pauses a crawl when failures pass a set rate.
- Analyze
- Lumar says Analyze has 350+ built-in reports on technical SEO, AI search readiness, site speed and accessibility, plus custom extractions from page HTML.
- Monitor
- Follows key metrics across several domains, site sections or country sites on shared dashboards, with alerts when new issues appear.
- Protect
- Runs automated SEO, speed and accessibility tests on new code, and can stop a build in GitHub, Jenkins, CircleCI or Azure DevOps when a test fails.
- GEO and AI visibility
- Reports on what may keep pages out of AI search answers and tracks brand mentions and sentiment on AI platforms, with AI-written suggestions.
- Accessibility and speed
- Tests pages against WCAG 2.2 levels A to AAA, and runs Lighthouse reports at scale alongside origin-level Chrome UX Report data.
Lumar pricing
We could not confirm Lumar’s current pricing from its own site, so we are not listing plans here. See lumar.io for current prices.
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Common questions
Does Lumar have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Lumar is listed for Web.
Does Lumar have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Lumar is listed for Web.
Is Lumar open source?
Lumar is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Does Lumar have an API?
Yes. Lumar offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026.