searchVIU review (2026): is it worth €399 a month?
Managed SEO crawling and monitoring with reports built by its team
searchVIU report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 23, 2026
Best for crawling and monitoring with reports built for you
searchVIU crawls a site weekly with JavaScript rendering, checks the key pages daily, and its analysts build your Looker Studio reports and meet you each month. It starts at €399 a month, there's no self-serve sign-up, and log files and feed monitoring wait on Advanced at €549. If you want to run a crawler yourself for less, look elsewhere.
Who searchVIU is for
- Fits if your in-house team at an online shop wants monitoring set up and explained for you
- Makes sense if you're planning a relaunch or domain move and need old and new sites compared
Who searchVIU is not for
- Pricey if you're a small site, as Basic alone is €399 a month and prices are in euros only
- Not for you if you want to sign up and start today, as trials go through a form and a call
- Tight if you need log file analysis, BI feeds or Merchant Center monitoring, which are Advanced only at €549
- Watch out: crawling past 50,000 URLs costs €50 a month more per extra 50,000, up to 500,000
Why searchVIU gets a 2.2
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- DValue for moneyBasic is €399 a month for up to 50,000 crawled URLs, in this category's dearest tenth, which starts at $99. Analyst-built reports and a monthly call are part of that. Each extra 50,000 URLs is €50 a month more.
- CFree plan and trialNo free plan. A free trial is requested through a form on the pricing page and arranged through a first call; its length isn't stated.
- BFeaturesDaily checks of 2,000 key pages, weekly full crawls with JavaScript rendering, alerts on new 404s and noindex tags, crawl comparisons and relaunch checks that match old URLs to new. It covers crawling and monitoring, with log files on Advanced.
- CEase of useNo rating on record. Its team builds the reports, but buying starts with a form and a call, and Search Console and Analytics are connected before it's useful.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, linked to Search Console, Google Analytics, Looker Studio and Merchant Center. No desktop or phone app, and no API on record.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from searchVIU'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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searchVIU's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 20 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade, and level with 20.
It stands best on features (B, above 77 of 83) and worst on value for money (D, above 0).
Its paid plans start at about $447.12 a month, against a middle price of $22.41 for the category: 50 of the 52 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 84 technical SEO tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. searchVIU’s own letter is outlined.
- DValue for moneyAbove 0 of 83, level with 8
- CFree plan and trialAbove 18 of 83, level with 32
- 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
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 73 technical SEO tools. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Keep searchVIU, or make your own?
Keep it
The plain part of searchVIU you could make: reports. What surrounds it you could not. The 3 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 43 of the 83 other technical SEO tools grade higher. It costs $5,365.43 a year.
What you could make
- Reports: an app builder makes this well.
What you could not
- A crawler that checks every page of a site.
- Millions of server log lines read to see what search bots crawl.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. searchVIU’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 searchVIU?
searchVIU is a cloud crawler from Bonn that monitors a site's most important pages every day, crawls the whole site weekly with JavaScript rendering, and alerts on problems such as new 404s or noindex tags. Its analysts build custom Looker Studio reports and meet customers monthly, and a migration tool compares a live site with its development copy before a relaunch.
Worth knowing
- Prices are given in euros only. Crawling past 50,000 URLs costs €50 more a month per extra 50,000, up to 500,000.
- There is no self-serve sign-up; trials and demos are arranged through a form and a first call.
- Log file analysis, BI data feeds and product feed monitoring come only with Advanced.
- Its free stand-alone tools, such as the robots.txt checker and hreflang tester, are separate from the paid plans.
Key features
- Daily page monitoring
- Checks the 2,000 (Basic) or 5,000+ (Advanced) pages that matter most every day, with weekly crawls of the whole site.
- JavaScript rendering
- Renders pages the way Google does on both plans, so content and links added by scripts are crawled.
- Alerts and change tracking
- Sends alerts on critical issues such as 404s and noindex tags, and compares crawls to list new, removed and changed pages.
- Reports built for you
- searchVIU's analysts build custom reports and data exports in Looker Studio, joined with Search Console and Analytics data.
- Relaunch checks
- Crawls the live and development versions of a site, flags lost content and links, and matches old URLs to new ones for redirect mapping.
- Log files and feeds
- Advanced adds log file analysis of bot behavior, faceted navigation checks and monitoring of Merchant Center product feeds.
searchVIU pricing
As of Oct 23, 2026, searchVIU is a paid product with a free trial, starting at €399 per month for up to 50,000 crawled URLs, billed monthly.
- Starts at
- €399 per month for up to 50,000 crawled URLs, billed monthly
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- Free trial requested through a form on the pricing page; its length is not stated
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | €399per month for up to 50,000 crawled URLs, billed monthly | Daily checks of 2,000 key pages, weekly crawls with JavaScript rendering, alerts, Search Console and Analytics data, and a 30-minute monthly call. |
| Advanced | €549per month for up to 50,000 crawled URLs, billed monthly | Daily checks of 5,000+ pages, log file analysis, data from feeds and databases, BI data feeds, Merchant Center monitoring and a 1-hour monthly call. |
Read from searchviu.com on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with searchVIU before you buy.
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Common questions
Does searchVIU have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. searchVIU is listed for Web.
Does searchVIU have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. searchVIU is listed for Web.
Is searchVIU open source?
searchVIU is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026.