Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Desktop website crawler for deep technical SEO audits
Score breakdown
What makes up this score
- 3 independent review sources
- 230 third-party reviews counted
- 1 answer engines measured
- cross-model consistency 1
- 5 web authority signals
- average citing-domain authority 35
- 100% of the category rubric covered
- No approved user reviews yet
Explanation
Why Screaming Frog SEO Spider ranks #3
Screaming Frog SEO Spider ranks #3 of 10 seo platforms with a TOP SCORE of 50.
The category leader scores 70, a gap of 20 points.
That is 3 points above the category average of 46.
Its strongest component is External Reputation at 73; its weakest is Web Authority at 18.
No usable evidence was found for TOP10 User Score, so that weight was redistributed across the components that are evidenced.
Generated from the recorded evidence behind this score, not from editorial opinion. How scoring works.
Score history
How the score has moved
54 → 50 ↓4.6
External reputation
What third-party sources publish
| Source | Published | Normalised | Reviews | Last checked | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G2 ↗ | 4.7/5 | 94 | 84 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
| Capterra ↗ | 4.9/5 | 98 | 133 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
| Trustpilot ↗ | 4/5 | 80 | 13 | 31 Aug 2026 | permitted crawl |
AI visibility
How answer engines treat this platform
| Engine | Mention | Recommendation | Citation | Avg position | Queries | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| claude sonnet 5 parametric | 50% | 17% | 0% | 6.2 | 12 | 31 Aug 2026 |
Web authority
Citations and independent coverage
- G231 Aug 2026
- Capterra31 Aug 2026
- Capterra31 Aug 2026
- TrustRadius31 Aug 2026
- Trustpilot31 Aug 2026
TOP10 users
What our users report
No published reviews yet. Reviews are moderated before they appear and are never removed at a business's request.
Company information
The facts on file
- Description
- Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a downloadable desktop crawler that audits websites for over 300 technical SEO issues, including broken links, redirects, metadata, hreflang, structured data and duplicate content. It is a point tool for technical auditing and migration verification rather than an all-in-one SEO suite, with no rank tracking or keyword research modules. Its buyers are in-house technical SEOs, agencies, consultants and developers, with G2 data showing 58.8% of reviews come from small-business accounts.
- Category
- SEO Platforms
- Headquarters
- Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England
- Products
- SEO Spider (free version, 500 URL crawl limit), SEO Spider paid annual licence (per user)
- Markets
- SMB, Agencies, Freelancers/Consultants, In-house SEO teams
- Integrations
- Google Analytics, Google Search Console, PageSpeed Insights, Looker Studio (crawl report), Link metrics providers, OpenAI, Gemini
- Pricing
- £199 per licence per year (vendor also publishes $279/year) · free tier: Free version with a 500 URL crawl limit; advanced features require a licence pricing page ↗
- Regulatory
- Screaming Frog Ltd is a limited company incorporated in England and Wales, company registration number 07277243, registered office Century House, Wargrave Road, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, RG9 2LT. Licensing is annual and per-user with renewal required; EULA clause 10.3 restricts refunds and VAT is non-refundable post-purchase. The Licensor may freely assign the EULA without the Licensee's consent. VAT validation at checkout relies on the EU VIES service, which the vendor notes can be intermittently unavailable.
- Official website
- https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ ↗
- Last verified
- 31 Aug 2026
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Category context
- This platform50
- Category leader70
- Category average46
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