# Visual Sitemaps review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Crawl a site into a visual sitemap with screenshots and AI review Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. VisualSitemaps crawls a website and turns it into a visual sitemap with page screenshots, for planning information architecture and reviewing UX and SEO. Maps can be edited, annotated, compared between crawls, and run through an AI optimization report. - **Category:** Technical SEO & Site Audits - **Made by:** VisualSitemaps Inc. - **Website:** https://visualsitemaps.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: 25 pages a month and 2 levels of crawl depth. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Visual Sitemaps has a free plan, and paid plans start at $14.50 per month for the first 6 months, billed monthly; renewal price not stated. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 25 pages per month, 3 users, 2-level crawl depth, unlimited flow boards. - **Free trial:** 7-day free trial of the Pro plan. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 25 pages per month and a 25-page sitemap limit, 3 users, 2-level crawl depth and unlimited flow boards. | | Mini | $14.50 per month for 1,500 pages, first 6 months; renewal price not stated | 500-page sitemap limit, 1 AI optimized map, 3 users and 4-level crawl depth. A 50% launch sale applies to the first 6 months. | | Pro | $49.50 per month for 4,000 pages, first 6 months; renewal price not stated | 1,500-page sitemap limit, 30 AI optimized maps and 100 with your own key, 10 users and unlimited crawl depth. A 50% launch sale applies to the first 6 months. | | Team | $199.50 per month for 25,000 pages, first 6 months; renewal price not stated | 4,000-page sitemap limit, 150 AI optimized maps and 400 with your own key, 20 users. A 50% launch sale applies to the first 6 months. | | Agency | Custom | Custom pages per month, 5,000-page maximum sitemap size and all features of the other plans. | Read from https://app.visualsitemaps.com/pricing/ on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Visual Sitemaps before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Cyber Sale: 50% off, ends Nov 30** (Other savings): Monthly plans 50% off for 6 months, annual plans 50% off the first year ($10.88, $37.13 and $149.63 per month for Mini, Pro, Team). Annual renewal price is not shown. Source: https://app.visualsitemaps.com/pricing/ ## Key features - **Automated crawling with screenshots:** Crawls a public site, or a password-protected one on paid plans, and builds a sitemap with HD screenshots of each page. - **AI optimized maps:** Generates a report on structure issues, topical gaps and navigation, exportable as PDF, Markdown and CSV. Paid plans include a monthly allowance, with more when you bring your own key. - **Visual QA and scheduled crawls:** Compares crawls over time to spot site changes and tracks competitors. - **Content and SEO planner:** Holds page-level SEO data and content plans in the sitemap, with a Google Drive integration. - **Editing and annotation:** Sitemaps can be edited and tagged, and screenshots annotated, with export to PDF, CSV and JSON. - **Flow boards:** A whiteboard-style canvas for user flows and journeys, listed as unlimited on every plan. ## Good for - Designers and strategists planning or auditing site structure - Agencies documenting competitor sites with screenshots - Teams planning a redesign or migration ## Worth knowing - The pricing page shows only sale prices, and the regular monthly price that applies afterward is not displayed. - The free plan stops at 25 pages per month and 2 crawl levels, and lacks AI maps, scheduled crawls and private-site crawling. - A Cyber Sale banner lists 50% off, ending Nov 30, for the first 6 months on monthly plans or the first year on annual plans. - The Pro trial allows 25 pages and 3 AI optimized maps before paid limits apply. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Visual Sitemaps crawls a site into a map with screenshots, and adds AI review maps, scheduled crawls and planning boards on paid plans. The free plan stops at 25 pages a month and 2 levels deep. The page shows sale prices only, with the regular price after 6 months not stated. - **Value for money: C.** Mini is $14.50 a month for the first 6 months and the renewal price is not shown, so we can't place it against the cheaper quarter at $13. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan with 25 pages a month, 3 users and a 2-level crawl depth, which a real site passes at once. The Pro trial is 7 days and also caps at 25 pages. - **Features: C.** Crawling, screenshots, annotation, planning boards and AI maps. Scheduled crawls, AI maps and private-site crawling are not on the free plan. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You run a crawl, then edit and organise the map, which takes some setup. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** A web app with Google Drive, and no apps or API on record. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Visual Sitemaps's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among technical SEO tools - Visual Sitemaps's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 11 of the 91 other technical SEO tools we grade, and level with 10. - Its paid plans start at $14.50 a month, against a middle price of $19.95 for the category: 19 of the 58 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 23 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/technical-seo ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Nothing Visual Sitemaps does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 3 things listed below take a company. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 70 of the 91 other technical SEO tools grade higher. It costs $174 a year. - You could not: A diagram editor. - You could not: Capture tools hooked into the operating system. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. 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 Drive **Tags:** Diagrams, Screenshots, AI features ## Alternatives - [DYNO Mapper](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dyno-mapper): Visual sitemap generator with content audits and accessibility tests. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dyno-mapper-vs-visual-sitemaps) - [XML-Sitemaps.com](https://toolgpa.com/tools/xml-sitemaps-com): Free online XML sitemap generator for sites up to 500 pages. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/visual-sitemaps-vs-xml-sitemaps-com) - [Beam Us Up](https://toolgpa.com/tools/beam-us-up): Free desktop SEO crawler for Windows, Mac and Linux. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/beam-us-up-vs-visual-sitemaps) - [SiteGuru](https://toolgpa.com/tools/siteguru): SEO audit tool that turns site crawls into a prioritized task list. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/siteguru-vs-visual-sitemaps) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://app.visualsitemaps.com/pricing/ - https://visualsitemaps.com/ - https://visualsitemaps.com/features/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/visual-sitemaps Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).