The Lumar Insider’s Guide
Everything we know about Lumar in one document: what it costs, its grades, getting a refund, getting help and what else to look at. Read it here, or keep a copy.
Lumar
The Insider’s Guide
Enterprise website crawler for technical SEO, GEO and accessibility
Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among technical SEO tools, read from Lumar’s own pages.
Made by Lumar · checked Oct 23, 2026 · toolgpa.com
Contents
- 01WelcomeWhat it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
- 02What it costsEvery plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
- 03What it doesIts main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
- 04Where it standsIts grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
- 05The alternativesThe tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
- 06Quick answersThe questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
- 07About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
ToolGPA put this guide together from Lumar’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on Lumar’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Oct 23, 2026.
Part 01 · Overview
Welcome
What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
2.0
GPA, above 10 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade
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.
To get you started, here are 7 things to know about Lumar, taken from its own pages and our grades.
It's quote-only, with no free plan or trial, and crawl limits are set in each contract.
- 1
Best for crawling very large sites before each release
You can't see a price or try it first, though.
- 2
It runs on Web
Web.
- 3
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.
- 4
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.
- 5
Monitor
Follows key metrics across several domains, site sections or country sites on shared dashboards, with alerts when new issues appear.
- 6
A 2.0 GPA, above 10 of 83
That is against the other technical SEO tools we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
- 7
Keep it
Nothing Lumar does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 7 things listed below take a company.
Lumar at a glance
- Pricing
- Paid
- Free plan
- No
- Free trial
- None stated
- Runs on
- Web
- Made by
- Lumar, since 2010
- Category
- Technical SEO & Site Audits
- Our grade
- 2.0 GPA, fair
The report card
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.
| Subject | Grade | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | C | No 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. |
| Free plan and trial | F | Nothing free on record: the site mentions no free plan and no trial. Access starts with a demo or a quote. |
| Features | B | Crawls 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. |
| Ease of use | C | No 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. |
| Platforms and integrations | B | Web 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. |
An A is worth 4 points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F nothing. The GPA is the average of the five.
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 it 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
Good to know
Good for
- Enterprise SEO teams crawling sites with hundreds of thousands of pages or more
- Development teams that want SEO checks to block a release in their CI/CD pipeline
- Brands tracking many domains or country sites from one dashboard
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.
Part 02 · Pricing
What it costs
Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
Lumar's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site.
With no figure to compare, it sits at the ordinary grade.
We could not confirm Lumar’s current prices from its own site, so this guide lists no plans. lumar.io has them.
Part 03 · Features
What it does
Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
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Place it runs: Web
Enterprise website crawler for technical SEO, GEO and accessibility. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: public API, AI features, site audit, dashboards, AI search visibility, page speed.
Monitor follows many domains, and Protect tests new code in GitHub, Jenkins, CircleCI or Azure DevOps.
- 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.
Where it runs
- Web
What it works with
- Google Search Console
- Google Analytics
- Adobe Analytics
- Looker Studio
- GitHub
- Splunk
- Slack
- Zapier
Lumar is made by Lumar, and has been around since 2010.
Part 04 · Standing
Where it stands
Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
10/83
Other technical SEO tools it is graded above
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
- FFree plan and trialAbove 0 of 83
- BFeaturesAbove 77 of 83
- CEase of useAbove 7 of 83
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 27 of 83
Keep it, or make your own?
Whether this is something you could build for yourself with an AI app builder, and what you would give up.
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.
Part 05 · Alternatives
The alternatives
The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
Botify, Oncrawl, JetOctopus, Screaming Frog SEO Spider and Sitebulb
The 5 tools Lumar is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.
- 2.2GPA
Botify
Paid
Enterprise search platform for crawling, log analysis and AI search.
- Lumar also covers dashboards and page speed.
- Botify also covers a/B testing, internal linking and log file analysis.
- 2.0GPA
Oncrawl
Paid
Cloud SEO crawler and log analyzer for large websites.
- Lumar also covers page speed.
- Oncrawl also covers internal linking and log file analysis.
- 2.2GPA
JetOctopus
Free trial · from $349/mo
Cloud SEO crawler with log analysis, GSC data and AI bot tracking.
- Lumar also covers dashboards and page speed.
- JetOctopus also covers internal linking and log file analysis.
- 2.4GPA
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Free plan · from $279/yr
Desktop website crawler for technical SEO audits.
- Screaming Frog SEO Spider has a free plan. Lumar does not.
- Only Lumar lists a web app.
- Only Screaming Frog SEO Spider lists Windows, macOS and Linux apps.
- 2.6GPA
Sitebulb
Free trial · from $18/mo
Website auditing crawler for Windows and Mac, with a cloud edition.
- Only Sitebulb lists Windows and macOS apps.
- Lumar also covers dashboards, AI search visibility and page speed.
- Sitebulb also covers reports.
Part 06 · Questions
Quick answers
The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
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Questions, each answered in a line or two
The short version of everything above, for when you only need the answer. Each one is told in full in its part of the guide.
Is Lumar free?
No. Lumar is a paid product.
What platforms does Lumar work on?
Lumar is available on Web.
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.
What does Lumar integrate with?
Lumar's listing names Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Looker Studio, GitHub, Splunk, Slack and Zapier.
Who makes Lumar?
Lumar is made by a company of the same name. It dates from 2010.
What are the alternatives to Lumar?
The closest alternatives to Lumar in our directory are Botify, Oncrawl, JetOctopus, Screaming Frog SEO Spider and Sitebulb.
How does Lumar compare with other technical SEO tools?
Lumar's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 10 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade, and level with 9.
Could I make my own version of Lumar?
Nothing Lumar does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 7 things listed below take a company.
Where this guide comes from
The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from Lumar’s own pages on Oct 23, 2026, and the grades were given on Oct 23, 2026. 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.
Every tool we list gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. How each is decided is at toolgpa.com/grades. This guide is ToolGPA’s own work; it is not made, paid for or approved by Lumar. Prices change, so check lumar.io before you buy.
Part 07 · About
About ToolGPA
Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
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ToolGPA grades software the way a school report grades a pupil: five subjects, a letter for each with the reason written beside it, and a GPA that averages them. Prices, plans and platforms are read from each maker’s own pages and dated, so you always know how fresh a figure is.
Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Every tool on the site has a guide like this one, free to download and pass on. It all lives at toolgpa.com.
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- Value chartsWhat each tool costs against what it scores, for every categorytoolgpa.com/charts
- CompareAny two tools side by side, plan by plantoolgpa.com/compare
- Price changesEvery price rise and cut on record, each with its sourcetoolgpa.com/price-changes
- Prices by countryWhat apps cost on the App Store in 12 countriestoolgpa.com/prices-by-country
- Pay lessEvery public discount: yearly billing, students, nonprofitstoolgpa.com/save
- Keep or makeWhich tools are worth paying for, and which you could build yourselftoolgpa.com/keep-or-make
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