Screaming Frog Alternatives in 2026: 10 Site Crawlers Compared

Screaming Frog’s SEO Spider is the standard desktop crawler. A paid licence was €245 a year on 9 October 2026, and the free version crawls up to 500 URLs with most features intact. The reasons people look for something else are mostly practical:

• It runs on your machine. Large crawls depend on your memory and storage, and sharing results means exporting files.
• It’s a spreadsheet at heart. It’s powerful, but the output is tables and exports, which clients and non-specialists find hard to read.
• It’s per licence. Pricing is per user per year, with discounts from five licences.

Which alternative fits depends on which of those bothers you.

The alternatives

1. LeakyFunnel: the crawl as a map, with your data on top

LeakyFunnel crawls your site and draws every page and internal link as an interactive map. It then lays Search Console rankings and clicks, GA4 sessions and conversions, and backlinks over that map. Backlink data is built in, or you can import CSVs from Ahrefs, Semrush or Moz. A one-click SEO audit covers CTR gaps, content decay, quick wins, keyword cannibalization, mobile vs desktop gaps, dead pages, and brand vs non-brand traffic. You can ask plain-English questions, answered from your own data.

Be clear about what it isn’t: it’s not a full technical crawler replacement. If you rely on custom extraction, JavaScript rendering settings or deep log and configuration checks, keep a crawler. LeakyFunnel is for seeing which pages are bleeding traffic and why. Early access, no pricing yet.

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Disclaimer: we own LeakyFunnel (which is how we know it’s good).

2. Sitebulb: the closest desktop alternative

Sitebulb is a desktop crawler built around prioritized hints and visuals. Lite is limited to 10,000 URLs per audit. Pro supports up to 500,000 URLs (expandable to 2 million) and adds more hints, audit comparisons, scheduled audits and customized PDF reports. Extra Pro users are £7/month each. There’s a 14-day trial. Sitebulb Cloud, for unlimited crawling and shared data, starts from £95/month. We couldn’t confirm the Lite and Pro amounts, so check the live page.

3. Netpeak Spider: cheap and desktop

Netpeak Spider is $20/month for a single user, with a 3-day trial and a 14-day money-back guarantee. It integrates with Google Analytics and Search Console. Multi-user discounts are mentioned but not detailed on the page. Reporting is less polished than Sitebulb’s.

4. Seobility: a cloud audit with a free tier

The free plan covers one project and 100-page crawls. Premium is €59.90/month (€575.04/year) with 25,000 pages per crawl, Professional €99.90 (50,000) and Agency €209.90 (100,000). It’s browser-based, so nothing runs on your machine. The small crawl limits mean it isn’t built for large sites.

5. Ahrefs Site Audit: if you already pay for Ahrefs

Site Audit is in every paid Ahrefs plan. Lite is $129/month with 100,000 crawl credits; Standard $249 (500,000); Advanced $449 (1.5M). It’s convenient next to Ahrefs’ backlink and keyword data, but crawl credits are shared across the account. See our Ahrefs alternatives for the wider picture.

6. Semrush Site Audit: bundled with the suite

Site Audit is included in the Semrush SEO plan ($117.33/month on annual billing), with an “AI-ready” version on Starter ($165.17). The pricing page doesn’t list monthly crawl limits. It’s reasonable if you use the rest of Semrush; as a crawler-only purchase it’s costly. More in Semrush alternatives.

7. SE Ranking Website Audit: audit plus rank tracking

Core is $103.20/month on annual billing ($129 monthly), with 250,000 audited pages a month across 10 projects, and Growth is $223.20 (2M pages). It’s a cloud audit inside a general SEO platform, so depth is shallower than a dedicated crawler.

8. JetOctopus: cloud crawling with log analysis

Growth is $349/month (€299): 500K crawled URLs and 2M log lines a month, with unlimited projects and seats. Pro is $809, Ultra $1,559. Annual billing saves 25%. The trial is 7 days and crawls 10K URLs. It’s built for big sites, and too much for a small one.

9. Lumar (formerly Deepcrawl): enterprise cloud crawling

Deepcrawl rebranded to Lumar, a cloud platform for scheduled crawls at enterprise scale. Pricing isn’t published; you request a quote. Not a Screaming Frog replacement for a freelancer.

10. Botify: enterprise SEO platform

Botify targets large e-commerce and publisher sites, and its pricing page lists no prices, only a demo request. Treat it as a platform decision rather than a crawler swap.

Quick comparison

How to choose

1. Start with crawl size. Under about 10,000 URLs, a desktop tool or a free tier is enough. Past 500K, look at cloud crawlers.
2. Decide who reads the output. If clients or non-SEOs need it, prioritize hints and PDF reports over raw exports.
3. Check what you already pay for. Ahrefs, Semrush and SE Ranking include audits, so a separate crawler may be redundant.
4. Keep the right tool for each job. A crawler finds technical faults; a map with your own traffic data shows which ones matter. See our cheap SEO tools guide for budget stacks.