Website Crawler review (2026): is the free plan enough?
Cloud SEO crawler, data scraper and page monitor priced by pages
Website Crawler report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 23, 2026
Best for cloud crawls priced by the page
Website Crawler is a cloud crawler that checks 100+ technical SEO issues, renders JavaScript on paid plans, scrapes custom data and watches pages and uptime, with an API. Page credits are shared across projects and lapse each month, free reports on duplicates and Search Console show 5 URLs, and sites behind anti-bot tools need your own proxy.
Who Website Crawler is for
- Fits if your site needs a crawler for a few dollars a month
- Works for developers pulling crawl data into their own code through the API
Who Website Crawler is not for
- Tight if you stay free, as demo reports such as duplicates and Search Console show 5 URLs
- Watch out: page credits are shared by every project and expire at the end of each month
- Skip it if your site sits behind anti-bot tools, unless you add your own residential proxy
- Tight if you need JavaScript rendering, which the free plan doesn't include
Why Website Crawler gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- BValue for moneyStarter is $10 a month for 2,000 pages, inside this category's cheaper quarter of $13. Growth is $20 for 10,000 and Scale $60 for 50,000, and yearly billing takes 10% off.
- CFree plan and trialThe free Basic plan gives 1,000 pages a month, 1 project, the HTML crawler and the API with no card. But demo reports, such as duplicates, cannibalization and Search Console data, show only 5 URLs.
- CFeatures100+ issue checks, JavaScript rendering, CSS, XPath or JavaScript extraction, Core Web Vitals, page and uptime monitoring and crawl comparison. The gap: it can't crawl sites behind anti-bot tools, or blocked where it's hosted, without your own residential proxy.
- CEase of useNo rating on record. Nothing to install, but you create projects, choose HTML or Chrome crawling and add a PageSpeed Insights key for Core Web Vitals.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb, with an API and SDKs for Python, Go, JavaScript, Rust, PHP and Java, plus Search Console and PageSpeed Insights. No desktop or phone app.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Website Crawler'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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Website Crawler's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 41 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade, and level with 14.
It stands best on value for money (B, above 43 of 83) and worst on ease of use (C, above 7).
Its paid plans start at $10 a month, against a middle price of $22.41 for the category: 9 of the 52 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 5 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 84 technical SEO tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Website Crawler’s own letter is outlined.
- BValue for moneyAbove 43 of 83, level with 10
- CFree plan and trialAbove 18 of 83, level with 32
- CFeaturesAbove 10 of 83, level with 66
- 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 Website Crawler, or make your own?
Keep it
Nothing Website Crawler does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 3 things listed below take a company.
It costs $120 a year.
What you could not
- A crawler that checks every page of a site.
- Speed tests run from real browsers on a schedule.
- It plugs into other products, Google Search Console and PageSpeed Insights among them, and has an API.
What this rests on. Website Crawler’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 Website Crawler?
Website Crawler is a cloud-based crawler that checks a site for more than 100 technical SEO issues, from broken links and canonicals to headings, alt text and thin content. It can render JavaScript, pull custom data with CSS, XPath or JavaScript, monitor pages and uptime, and export results as CSV, JSON, Markdown or PDF. Plans are priced by the number of pages crawled each month.
Worth knowing
- On the free plan, reports marked demo, such as duplicate content, cannibalization and Search Console data, show only 5 URLs.
- Page credits are shared by all projects in the account and expire at the end of each month.
- It cannot crawl sites behind anti-bot tools or blocked where it is hosted unless you add your own residential proxy.
- Refunds are offered within 14 days of buying a plan, on request by email with a reason.
Key features
- Technical SEO reports
- Finds broken links, redirect chains, canonical errors, duplicate titles and descriptions, heading gaps, missing alt text, thin content and hreflang problems.
- JavaScript rendering
- Paid plans can switch from the faster HTML crawler to a Chrome mode that runs each page's JavaScript before checking it, so single-page apps can be crawled.
- Custom data extraction
- Scrapes chosen data from pages with CSS selectors, XPath or a JavaScript snippet, exported as CSV, JSON or Markdown, with optional residential proxies.
- Page speed and rendering
- Paid plans add Core Web Vitals through a PageSpeed Insights key, console errors, render-blocking resources, CSS and JavaScript coverage, and screenshots.
- Monitoring and scheduled crawls
- Watches pages for changes and keeps up to 10 snapshots, alerts on downtime and SSL expiry, schedules crawls and compares two crawls side by side.
- API and Search Console
- An API with SDKs for Python, Go, JavaScript, Rust, PHP and Java starts crawls and returns the data as JSON; Search Console data can be filtered by keyword.
Website Crawler pricing
As of Oct 23, 2026, Website Crawler has a free plan, and paid plans start at $10 per month for 2,000 pages, billed monthly.
- Starts at
- $10 per month for 2,000 pages, billed monthly
- Free plan
- Basic plan: 1,000 pages a month, 1 project, the HTML crawler, basic SEO reports, 3 page monitors and API access. Advanced reports show only 5 URLs.
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Basic | $0 | 1,000 pages a month and 1 project with the HTML crawler, data extraction, API access and 3 page monitors. No card required. |
| Starter | $10per month for 2,000 pages, billed monthly | 3 projects and 2 users, JavaScript rendering, all reports, Core Web Vitals, white-label PDFs, 5-minute uptime checks and 20 page monitors. |
| Growth | $20per month for 10,000 pages, billed monthly | 10 projects and 4 users, 3-minute uptime checks, 100 page monitors and priority support. |
| Scale | $60per month for 50,000 pages, billed monthly | 50 projects and 10 users, 1-minute uptime checks, 500 page monitors and priority support. |
| Enterprise | Custom | Up to 1 million pages a month and 100 projects, unlimited team members and the fastest crawl speed. The page puts it at around $90 a month and up. |
Read from websitecrawler.org on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Website Crawler before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discount10% off with annual billing
Website Crawler's pricing page shows a 10% discount on the annual plans, which are paid yearly and renew each year.
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Common questions
Does Website Crawler have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Website Crawler is listed for Web.
Does Website Crawler have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Website Crawler is listed for Web.
Is Website Crawler open source?
Website Crawler is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Does Website Crawler have an API?
Yes. Website Crawler 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.