Screaming Frog SEO Spider
SEO Tools, by Screaming Frog
Desktop website crawler for technical audits, free to 500 URLs and £199 a year for unlimited crawling.
- Score
- Not yet scored
- Price
- Free plan, paid from £199/yr
- Suits
- Solo, Small teams (2–50), Mid-size (51–500), Enterprise (500+)
- Runs
- Self-hosted on Windows, macOS, Linux
- Best for
- Solo, Small teams (2–50), Mid-size (51–500), Enterprise (500+)
- Free option
- Free plan, up to 500 URL per crawls
- Standout
- Technical site audit
About Screaming Frog SEO SpiderScreaming Frog
The SEO Spider runs on your own machine and crawls a site the way a search engine would, reporting the technical and on-page problems it finds. The free edition stops at 500 URLs; the annual licence removes that limit, bounded then only by the memory and storage of the computer running it. It is distributed for Windows, macOS on both Apple Silicon and Intel, and Linux. Prices are shown in pounds with dollar and euro options.
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Company
- Screaming Frog
- Founded
- Not verified
- Headquarters
- Not verified
Pricing
List prices from the vendor's own page, verified Sep 5, 2026Free
£0per URL per crawl/month
Crawls up to 500 URLs at a time with a reduced feature set.
Licence
£199per year/year
£199 per year, with dollar and euro options shown. Unlimited crawling, subject to the resources of the machine it runs on.
What it can do
Verified capabilities; anything unconfirmed says so- Technical site auditDescribed on the official product page as a website crawler for technical SEO site audits.Yes
Integrates with Google Analytics, Google Search Console, Google Sheets and Looker Studio.
How we scored it
Editorial, against published criteriaNot reviewed by our editors yet. The facts above are still verified.
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SE Ranking
Hosted audits if you would rather not run the crawl on your own machine.
Flat rate from $103.20/moNot yet scored
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Where it fits
Editorial rankings and reading that mention this productRanked for
- SEO tools for freelancers and small sites: suitability 88 of 100. Free to 500 URLs, then £199 a year with no per-crawl ceiling.
- SEO tools for WordPress sites: suitability 72 of 100. Crawls the finished site from outside, free to 500 URLs, to catch what a plugin cannot report.
Reading
- What SEO tool quotas actually limit Crawl credits, analysis units, tracked keywords, daily searches and URLs per audit are five different meters. Here is what each one stops.
- How to choose SEO software Match the tool to the job, then check the three numbers that actually decide the bill: seats, projects and the quota that runs out first.
Data last verified Sep 5, 2026 from screamingfrog.co.uk and manual checks. Facts we cannot verify stay marked as not verified. Some vendor links are affiliate links; they never change a score. How we evaluate
Sources and verification
- Official websiteSep 4, 2026
- Official pricing pageSep 4, 2026
- Manual verificationSep 4, 2026