# XML-Sitemaps.com review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Free online XML sitemap generator for sites up to 500 pages Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. XML-Sitemaps.com crawls a website and builds an XML sitemap, plus HTML and text versions, for sites of up to 500 pages, with no registration. Larger sites can use Pro Sitemaps, the same team's hosted service that keeps sitemaps updated automatically, or a PHP generator script bought once and run on your own server. The site also offers a sitemap validator and a search engine bot simulator. - **Category:** Technical SEO & Site Audits - **Made by:** XML Sitemaps (since 2005) - **Website:** https://www.xml-sitemaps.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free, at 500 pages and no automatic updates. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, XML-Sitemaps.com has a free plan, and paid plans start at $2.44 per month for 500 URLs, billed yearly ($3.49 billed monthly). - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Free online generator: XML, HTML and text sitemaps for up to 500 pages, no registration. You download the files and upload them to your site yourself. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free generator | $0 | Sitemaps for up to 500 pages, built on demand with no sign-up, with last-modified dates and priorities set automatically. | | Pro Sitemaps | $2.44 per month for 500 URLs, billed yearly ($3.49 billed monthly) | Hosted service with automatic updates, image, video and news sitemaps and SEO health reports. $8.39 a month at 10,000 URLs, billed yearly. | | Sitemap Generator Script | $49.99 one-time | PHP script for your own server with no page limit, broken-link reports and cron scheduling. Image, video, news and RSS add-ons cost $20 each. | Read from https://pro-sitemaps.com/docs/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with XML-Sitemaps.com before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Save 30% on Pro Sitemaps with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Pro Sitemaps' pricing page marks yearly billing at 30% off: 500 URLs cost $29.32 a year ($2.44 a month) instead of $3.49 a month. Source: https://pro-sitemaps.com/docs/pricing/ ## Key features - **Online sitemap generator:** Enter a URL and it crawls up to 500 pages, then gives you XML, HTML and plain-text sitemaps to download. - **Automatic priorities and dates:** Sets each page's last-modified date from the server's response and lowers its priority the further it sits from the homepage. - **Hosted sitemaps with Pro Sitemaps:** Pro Sitemaps builds and hosts the sitemap on its own servers on a schedule, for sites from a few hundred pages to millions. - **Self-hosted generator script:** A PHP script for your own server that splits large sitemaps into files of 50,000 URLs with a sitemap index, and reports broken links. - **Free checking tools:** A sitemap validator, a search engine bot simulator and an HTTP headers viewer are free on the site. ## Good for - Owners of small sites who need a sitemap once, without signing up - Sites too large for a plugin that want sitemaps hosted and updated for them - Developers who would rather run a sitemap script on their own server ## Worth knowing - The free generator stops at 500 pages and does not update the sitemap; automatic updates need Pro Sitemaps. - Pro Sitemaps is priced by URLs per site, from $3.49 a month for 500 URLs to $719.99 a month for 5 million, billed monthly. - The generator script's licence is for personal use and may not be resold as a service; installation is a $20 extra. - Pro Sitemaps runs on its own site, pro-sitemaps.com, operated by CMJ Marketing Ltd. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. XML-Sitemaps.com builds XML, HTML and text sitemaps for sites up to 500 pages, free and with no sign-up. That free sitemap never updates itself, though, and you upload the files yourself. Automatic updates mean Pro Sitemaps, a separate site run by CMJ Marketing Ltd. - **Value for money: A.** Pro Sitemaps is $2.44 a month billed yearly for 500 URLs ($3.49 monthly), and $8.39 at 10,000 URLs, both under 60% of this category's cheapest quarter. The PHP script is $49.99 once. - **Free plan and trial: B.** The online generator is free for up to 500 pages with no registration, which covers a small site. It won't update the sitemap for you: you download the files and upload them yourself. - **Features: C.** Sitemaps in XML, HTML and text, with dates and priorities set for you, plus a validator, a bot simulator and a headers viewer. It does that job fully, but it's a smaller job than a site audit. - **Ease of use: B.** No rating on record. Enter an address, wait for the crawl and download the files, with no account. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with no API or integrations on record. The self-hosted script needs a PHP server of your own. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from XML-Sitemaps.com'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 - XML-Sitemaps.com's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 64 of the 83 other technical SEO tools we grade, and level with 8. - It stands best on value for money (A, above 54 of 83) and worst on platforms and integrations (C, above 3). - Its paid plans start at $2.44 a month, against a middle price of $22.41 for the category: 0 of the 52 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 3 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? **Your call.** XML-Sitemaps.com sits between: not beyond making, and not a weekend's work either. What you would give up is listed below. Whether that is worth the price is your call. At $29.28 a year it costs less than the weekend it would take to replace, which is the argument for keeping it. - You could make: It runs in a browser, which is where something home-made would run too. - You could not: A crawler that checks every page of a site. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Site audit, One-time purchase ## Alternatives - [Screaming Frog SEO Spider](https://toolgpa.com/tools/screaming-frog): Desktop website crawler for technical SEO audits. 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[Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/siteliner-vs-xml-sitemaps-com) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://pro-sitemaps.com/docs/pricing/ - https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ - https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/about-us.html - https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/standalone-google-sitemap-generator.html - https://pro-sitemaps.com/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/xml-sitemaps-com Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).