Technical SEO & crawling · Screaming Frog Ltd
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Desktop website crawler sold as a one-off annual licence, widely used for technical SEO audits.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a desktop application that crawls a website the way a search-engine bot would, reporting broken links, redirect chains, duplicate titles and meta descriptions, canonical and hreflang errors, structured data, and page-speed data pulled from Google's APIs. It runs locally on the user's machine, Windows, macOS, or Linux, rather than as a hosted SaaS product, storing crawl data on disk, which lets it handle very large crawls without a subscription-based row limit. It is licensed per user per year rather than billed monthly, with volume discounts for multiple licences. It is commonly paired with a cloud rank tracker or backlink tool rather than replacing them, since it does not track rankings or maintain its own backlink index.
At a glance
| Vendor | Screaming Frog Ltd |
|---|---|
| Pricing model | Subscription |
| Free tier | Yes |
| Deployment | Self-hosted |
| Open source | No |
| Best for | Technical SEOs who need a deep, one-off site crawl without an ongoing SaaS subscription. |
Pricing
Annual per-user licence with volume discounts; a free mode is limited to 500 URLs per crawl.
| Plan | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Licence (1-4 users) | $279/licence/year | Per licence, per year |
| Licence (5-9 users) | $265/licence/year | Volume discount |
| Licence (10-19 users) | $249/licence/year | Volume discount |
| Licence (20+ users) | $235/licence/year | Volume discount |
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.
Features
- Full site crawling with broken-link and redirect-chain reports
- Duplicate title and meta-description detection
- Canonical, hreflang, and robots.txt/meta-robots auditing
- Structured-data (schema) extraction and validation
- Integration with Google Analytics, Search Console, and PageSpeed Insights APIs
- XML sitemap generation
- JavaScript rendering for crawling client-rendered pages
- Free mode limited to 500 URLs per crawl
Integrations
Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026