Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Screaming Frog Ltd
The crawler every technical SEO actually uses.
Price
From $21.58/mo · Free version available
Last checked
July 2026
Best for
Technical audits, any size
Category
Technical & audits
About Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Screaming Frog’s SEO Spider is the desktop program running on every technical SEO’s machine: it crawls a site the way Google does and surfaces broken links, redirect chains, duplicate titles, missing metadata, orphan pages, structured-data errors, and JavaScript rendering issues, with hooks into GSC and analytics APIs. The free version crawls 500 URLs, enough for most small sites; the paid license (around £199, roughly $259 a year) removes the cap and unlocks the deep features. The learning curve is real (it is a power tool, not a dashboard), and that is precisely why professionals trust it.
“The technical SEO standard for over a decade: point the desktop crawler at any site and it finds what is broken, duplicated, redirected, and unindexable. The free 500-URL tier handles small sites; the paid license is the best £199 in technical SEO.”Editorial team, via SEOShortlist
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