Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Technical SEO · Freemium
About
A desktop crawler that audits websites for technical SEO issues, with optional AI-powered custom extraction.
Key features
- Site crawling
- Broken links and redirects
- Custom extraction
- API and AI integrations
Best for
- — Technical SEO audits
- — Large site crawls
- Pricing
- Freemium
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Works with
- Google Analytics, Google Search Console
- Last checked
- 2026-10-29
- Status
- Listed, not yet tested
Our take
The technical SEO workhorse. The interface is dense and the free version caps crawls at 500 URLs.
Features and pricing change often — confirm on screamingfrog.co.uk before you commit.
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