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

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Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026

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