Screaming Frog price: what the SEO Spider costs
Screaming Frog Ltd
The crawler every technical SEO actually uses.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider costs $23.25/mo for the Paid licence (per year) plan. A free tier is available.
Price
From $23.25/mo · Free version available
Last checked
October 25, 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 licence, billed once 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.
Screaming Frog pricing: the free version and the licence
Screaming Frog SEO Spider costs $23.25 per month, or $279 per year on the Paid licence (per year) plan. There is a free tier as well. List prices on annual billing. Paying monthly usually costs more.
The plans we track for Screaming Frog SEO Spider, with the yearly price next to the monthly one.
Paid licence (per year)
- Unlimited crawling
- Licence runs one year and does not auto-renew
- One licence per user
“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 money spent in technical SEO.”Checked by our editorial team
Where to get it
From $23.25/mo
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View allPros and cons
From our price and feature data. Checked on October 25, 2026.
Pros
- The free version is the same program and not a trial. It crawls up to 500 URLs with no time limit.
- One crawl surfaces broken links and redirect chains along with duplicate titles and orphan pages. Structured-data errors and JavaScript rendering issues show up too.
- A paid license is one flat yearly charge that does not renew by itself. Nothing is taken from your card automatically.
Cons
- Expect a power tool rather than a dashboard. The learning curve is real and professionals see that as the point.
- The license is sold per year only and there is no public coupon. Month-to-month buying is not an option.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Screaming Frog cost?
The SEO Spider licence costs $279 per user per year. It is one flat annual charge. The licence runs for a year and does not renew by itself, so nothing is taken from your card automatically. The free version costs nothing and crawls up to 500 URLs.
Is Screaming Frog free?
Partly, and the free version is not a trial. It is the same program, it crawls up to 500 URLs per crawl and it has no time limit, which is enough for most small sites. Crawling past those 500 URLs, plus the features Screaming Frog lists only in the licence column of its pricing page, is what the yearly licence buys.
Is there a monthly Screaming Frog plan?
No. Screaming Frog sells the SEO Spider as a yearly licence only. The $23.25 a month shown on this page is that yearly price divided by twelve, so it can be lined up against the subscription tools in our price index. You cannot actually buy a single month.
Is there a Screaming Frog discount code?
There is no public coupon. The only discount Screaming Frog publishes is on volume. Licences are counted per user, and the price per licence steps down at 5, at 10 and at 20 licences, always per licence per year. Read from their pricing page on 1 September 2026.
Does the Screaming Frog licence include the API?
Yes. The licence column on Screaming Frog’s pricing page lists the Search Console, Google Analytics and PageSpeed Insights integrations, so there is no separate Screaming Frog API price on top of the licence. Some of those connections still need your own account with the third party, and the free version does not include them.
What does Screaming Frog cost compared with other SEO tools?
Screaming Frog is a crawler, so the fair comparison is with other crawlers rather than with keyword suites. Sitebulb, the closest alternative, starts at $15 a month on a yearly term and explains each issue in plain language instead of only listing it. Seobility puts a crawler, rank tracking and backlinks in one subscription, with a free plan for one small site. Google Search Console is free but only reports on a site you have verified. Screaming Frog and Sitebulb both run on your own machine; Seobility and Search Console run in the browser. Screaming Frog and Sitebulb are both in our price index, so you can check their amounts against the list.
Who is behind Screaming Frog SEO Spider?
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is run by Screaming Frog Ltd. That is the name on your invoice, in the terms and in the company register, while the website itself shows only the brand. If you searched for the company name and landed here, you are in the right place.
We may earn a small commission through links on this site, at no extra cost to you. Prices and plans can change at any time; always check current pricing with the provider.