# Website Crawler review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Cloud SEO crawler, data scraper and page monitor priced by pages Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. 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. - **Category:** Technical SEO & Site Audits - **Made by:** WebsiteCrawler.org - **Website:** https://www.websitecrawler.org - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free, as demo reports such as duplicates and Search Console show 5 URLs. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## 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. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **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 | $10 per 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 | $20 per month for 10,000 pages, billed monthly | 10 projects and 4 users, 3-minute uptime checks, 100 page monitors and priority support. | | Scale | $60 per 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 https://www.websitecrawler.org/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Website Crawler before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **10% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): Website Crawler's pricing page shows a 10% discount on the annual plans, which are paid yearly and renew each year. Source: https://www.websitecrawler.org/pricing ## 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. ## Good for - Small sites that need a crawler for a few dollars a month - Developers pulling crawl data into their own code through the API - Agencies sending white-label PDF audits ## 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. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. 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. - **Value for money: B.** Starter 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. - **Free plan and trial: C.** The 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. - **Features: C.** 100+ 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. - **Ease of use: C.** No 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. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with an API and SDKs for Python, Go, JavaScript, Rust, PHP and Java, plus Search Console and PageSpeed Insights. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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. ## Where it stands among technical SEO tools - 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. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/technical-seo ## Keep it, 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. - You could not: A crawler that checks every page of a site. - You could not: Speed tests run from real browsers on a schedule. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Google Search Console and PageSpeed Insights among them, and has an API. 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 Search Console, PageSpeed Insights **Tags:** Site audit, Page speed, Public API ## 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-website-crawler) - [Sitebulb](https://toolgpa.com/tools/sitebulb): Website auditing crawler for Windows and Mac, with a cloud edition. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/sitebulb-vs-website-crawler) - [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-website-crawler) - [JetOctopus](https://toolgpa.com/tools/jetoctopus): Cloud SEO crawler with log analysis, GSC data and AI bot tracking. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/jetoctopus-vs-website-crawler) - [CrawlCenter](https://toolgpa.com/tools/crawlcenter): Simple cloud crawler with on-page SEO reports and a free plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/crawlcenter-vs-website-crawler) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://www.websitecrawler.org/pricing - https://www.websitecrawler.org/ - https://www.websitecrawler.org/about - https://www.websitecrawler.org/apidoc Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/website-crawler Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).