# Sitebulb

> Website auditing crawler for Windows and Mac, with a cloud edition

Sitebulb is a technical SEO crawler. The desktop app for Windows and Mac audits a site against 300+ prioritized hints with explanations, crawl maps and comparisons between audits. Sitebulb Cloud runs the same crawler in the browser for larger sites and shared team access. Every plan can pass audit data to AI assistants through Sitebulb's MCP server.

- **Category:** SEO Tools
- **Made by:** Sitebulb Limited (since 2017)
- **Website:** https://sitebulb.com
- **Runs on:** Windows, macOS, Web
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

Sitebulb is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $18 per month, billed monthly.

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial equal to Sitebulb Pro desktop, no credit card.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lite | $18 per month, billed monthly | Desktop, 1 user, 10,000 URLs per audit, 100+ hints, JavaScript crawling, crawl maps and GA, GSC and Sheets integration. |
| Pro | $42 per month, billed monthly | Desktop price for 1 user; more users from $11 a month each. 500,000 URLs per audit, 300+ hints, scheduling, comparisons, PDF reports. |
| Sitebulb Cloud | $125 per month and up, billed monthly | Browser-based cloud crawling for 2+ users, no project limits, recurring crawls and Data Studio integration. |

Read from https://sitebulb.com/subscriptions/pricing/index/ on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Sitebulb before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Save 15% with yearly plans** (Annual discount): Paid yearly, Lite is $180 a year and Pro $425 for 1 user, with extra users at $115.60 a year; Sitebulb Cloud starts at $1,500 a year. Source: https://sitebulb.com/subscriptions/pricing/index/?annual=true

## Key features

- **Prioritized hints:** Each audit flags issues against 100+ hints on Lite or 300+ on Pro, ranked by priority and explained in plain terms.
- **JavaScript crawling:** Render JavaScript-heavy sites during a crawl on every plan, at no extra cost.
- **Audit comparison and scheduling:** On Pro, compare audits to see what changed and schedule audits to run automatically, with auto-export to Google Sheets.
- **Crawl maps and reports:** See site structure as visual crawl maps, and on Pro produce customized PDF reports for clients.
- **Pro-only checks:** Pro adds performance and mobile, structured data, hreflang, spelling, accessibility and AMP reports.
- **MCP access:** Connect audits to Claude, ChatGPT and other AI tools through Sitebulb's MCP server, included on every plan.

## Good for

- SEO consultants and agencies who want audits explained for clients
- Freelancers auditing small sites on a low monthly budget
- Teams that need to crawl very large sites from the cloud

## Worth knowing

- Lite caps each audit at 10,000 URLs and lacks scheduling, comparisons and several report types.
- Desktop crawls are limited by the computer: Pro's default cap is 500,000 URLs, raisable to 2 million.
- Sitebulb Cloud is priced separately, from $125 a month, and needs at least 2 users.
- Purchase order and invoice payment is only for yearly plans.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Sitebulb is a site crawler that doesn't just list problems, it ranks them and explains them in plain terms, with crawl maps to show how a site hangs together. Lite is $180 a year on Windows or Mac for audits up to 10,000 URLs. Scheduling, comparisons and the full 300+ checks need Pro, and the cloud version is a separate, dearer product.

- **Value for money: B.** Graded against its alternatives. Lite is $180 a year, $15 a month, for 1 user and 10,000 URLs per audit, cheaper than Screaming Frog's $279 and far under Semrush or Ahrefs. Pro, with scheduling and comparisons, is $425 a year.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but the 14-day trial needs no card and works like Sitebulb Pro on the desktop.
- **Features: C.** It does the audit job fully: 100+ hints on Lite or 300+ on Pro, JavaScript crawling on every plan, crawl maps and MCP. But auditing is one slice of SEO, and Lite lacks scheduling, comparisons and several report types.
- **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record, but this is the friendly crawler: install it, start an audit, and each problem comes ranked by priority and explained in plain terms.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Desktop apps for Windows and Mac plus Sitebulb Cloud in the browser, with Google Analytics, Search Console, Sheets, Looker Studio, Claude and ChatGPT. The cloud version is priced separately, from $125 a month.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Sitebulb's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among SEO tools

- Sitebulb's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 16 of the 21 other SEO tools we grade, and level with 2.
- It stands best on ease of use (B, above 19 of 21) and worst on features (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $18 a month, against a middle price of $34.45 for the category: 2 of the 21 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.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/seo

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Your call.** You could make the core of Sitebulb for yourself: reports. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. It costs $216 a year.

- You could make: Reports: an app builder makes this well.
- You could not: A crawler that checks every page of a site.
- You could not: A real app for macOS and Windows. Something home-made would be a web page.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Analytics, Google Search Console and Google Sheets among them.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google Sheets, Looker Studio, Claude, ChatGPT

**Tags:** Site audit, Reports

## Alternatives

- [Screaming Frog SEO Spider](https://toolgpa.com/tools/screaming-frog): Desktop website crawler for technical SEO audits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/screaming-frog-vs-sitebulb)
- [Semrush](https://toolgpa.com/tools/semrush): SEO suite for keyword research, rank tracking and AI search visibility. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/semrush-vs-sitebulb)
- [Ahrefs](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ahrefs): SEO toolset for backlinks, keyword research, audits and rank tracking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/ahrefs-vs-sitebulb)
- [Seobility](https://toolgpa.com/tools/seobility): Site audits, rank tracking and backlink monitoring in one web app. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/seobility-vs-sitebulb)
- [SEO PowerSuite](https://toolgpa.com/tools/seo-powersuite): Four desktop SEO apps for rankings, audits, backlinks and outreach. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/seo-powersuite-vs-sitebulb)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://sitebulb.com/subscriptions/pricing/index/
- https://sitebulb.com/subscriptions/pricing/index/?annual=true
- https://sitebulb.com/
- https://sitebulb.com/about/

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/sitebulb
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