--- title: "Screaming Frog SEO Spider Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra" description: "Is Screaming Frog SEO Spider the right SEO solution for you? Explore 134 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice." source_url: "https://www.capterra.com/p/185765/Screaming-Frog-SEO-Spider/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" publication_date: "2026-10-21" --- Screaming Frog SEO Spider 4.9 (134) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/185765/Screaming-Frog-SEO-Spider/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated October 21st, 2026 # Reviews of Screaming Frog SEO Spider Ease of use 4.3 Customer Service 4.5 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews OM Oliver M SEO LeadMarketing and Advertising, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “Screaming Frog's ability to provide in-depth technical audits is superior to any other tool or software I have used for SEO audits.“ June 29, 2026 CC Christopher C SEO ManagerMarketing and Advertising, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “As its local software, if crawling a big site you can run out of internal memory to store the data and your computer can get slow while crawling.“ March 12, 2024 OM Oliver M SEO LeadMarketing and Advertising, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “Detailed anaylsis and variety of technical SEO metrics included in reports is very impressive.“ June 29, 2026 Ferent L Web Designer - Junior Platform Maintainance Engineer And Seasoned Online Marketing AssistantBuilding Materials, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “The cost of getting a license can be very high, especially for small businesses with low or limited budgets.“ November 18, 2023 RT Ryan T Head Of Integrated Search And Data PerformanceMarketing and Advertising, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “We've used Screaming Frog as the core SaaS tool for staff training and SEO audits for over a decade. While other tools have invested in fancy dashboards and visual reporting - Screaming Frog has built a platform designed for power and detail.“ November 13, 2023 AS Apurva S SEO ExecutiveInformation Technology and Services, 51 - 200 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “It can be a bit of a power hog on your computer, especially when crawling big sites.“ June 22, 2024 Ferent L Web Designer - Junior Platform Maintainance Engineer And Seasoned Online Marketing AssistantBuilding Materials, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “I like it because it's user-friendly and provides a comprehensive website analysis feature which provides a set of tools that collect data on various SEO aspects and helps for further fixing such as broken links, meta tags, duplicate contents, and others.“ November 18, 2023 Ferent L Web Designer - Junior Platform Maintainance Engineer And Seasoned Online Marketing AssistantBuilding Materials, 11 - 50 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “There is no direct support which could potentially be problematic in cases where the user needs urgent assistance.“ November 18, 2023 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 134 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use David W. SEO Manager Sporting Goods Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great value for money and invaluable insights" November 27, 2025 5.0 Pros Screaming Frog has been an invaluable tool for our site migrations. The information it captured pre and post migration and the ability to compare crawls gave us the confidence that everything had moved across as planned. It is easy to use and we use it regularly to monitor our websites. When we've had queries the response from their team has always been instant. Cons There are no major cons with Screaming Frog based on my experience using the tool. There are new uses popping up all the time and for the price I've got no complaints. Alternatives considered [Sitebulb](https://www.capterra.com/p/169089/Sitebulb/) Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider Screaming Frog looked to be cheaper and I'd heard lots of positive things from people in the industry Review Source Angus A. Director Media Production Used the software for: 2+ years ### "One of the best, cost-effective SEO technical tools" May 7, 2024 5.0 Overall this is one of the best, most cost effective and reliable tools that SEOs should have in their arsenal. Its been around for a long time and I can see it being used well into the future. Pros Screaming frog is a no fuss platform which makes it easy to do audits and find technical issues on your site that can affect your seo. It's probably one of the most essential tools anyone should have in their SEO tool stack. I like the fact it runs as a desktop app over an online one - while it uses lots of system resources it is responsive and not hindered by online loading times like web based tools. The UI is relatively clean albeit a little cluttered, but you get used to it quickly. Cons The UI could be improved slightly. There are some similar tools like Sitebulb that are more intuitive and give more in depth suggestions on how to fix technical issues. Screaming frog just presents the issues rather than telling you how to fix them. Alternatives considered [Sitebulb](https://www.capterra.com/p/169089/Sitebulb/) Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider Crawls site faster than other options, desktop based and feels more responsive. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Web Solutions Architect Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: 2+ years ### "It works, mostly" September 17, 2019 3.0 Needed to identify thousands of pages linked across 13 websites. I thought it did that, but later found a lot missed. Not sure if that is the software or my use of it. Pros On the surface it seems easy. Point at a domain and you get a list back. So easy to use and get what you need. I think. But see cons... Cons I didn't always feel like this was crawling every page. Maybe it is a config issue, because the interface can be confusing. Yearly license fees make it not attractive. Review Source OM Oliver M. SEO Lead Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Leading technical SEO tool, a must-use for SEO professionals" June 29, 2026 5.0 Very helpful technical SEO tool and is definitely superior against other competitor tools I have used. Detailed anaylsis and variety of technical SEO metrics included in reports is very impressive. Pros Screaming Frog's ability to provide in-depth technical audits is superior to any other tool or software I have used for SEO audits. The best feature for me has been the broken links identifier - this is particularly helpful when crawling new client websites. Cons It is not a big downside that stops me from using Screaming Frog, but the front interface looks and feels dated in some aspects. Review Source Shannon O. Director of SEO Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best Value for Product in This Space" August 8, 2021 5.0 When looking for an option to assess client sites, I need SEO software that works consistently and without bugs. It's also helpful that it's affordable compared to the other services offering a similar scraping of SEO data from a website. Given that it's a flat annual fee, I find that far superior to the high monthly costs. And as noted, it just works. If you're an SEO professional, there will be no real learning curve to use it. Pros The software works exactly how it's intended to work, and the layout is intuitive. Once you've assessed a website, the output of links, metadata, word counts, and headers is all dead simple to understand—and even more, it's dead simple to sort the details as needed. Cons I wouldn't say that the interface is either attractive or sophisticated. It's looked exactly the same for many, many years. It's not flashy, but it easily displays the data you need, so it's a small compromise that you don't even really notice. Alternatives considered [Moz Local](https://www.capterra.com/p/116352/Moz-Pro/)[Ahrefs](https://www.capterra.com/p/176340/Ahrefs/)[Semrush](https://www.capterra.com/p/151962/SEMrush/) Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider I have subscriptions to each of these alternatives, but none of them provided the data I needed in raw form that I could manipulate easily in a spreadsheet—at least not without upgrading to a significantly more expensive plan (SEMrush). Review Source VR Verified Reviewer ceo Arts and Crafts Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "SEO made easy with this tool" July 15, 2024 5.0 Pros I love using screaming frog seo because i need to analyse different website. I am not an technician bit this tools is very cool to obtain all information you need. no technical skill needed Cons old fashioned website and sometimes not very clear in the presentation of items Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider semrush is definitely too expensive Switched from [Semrush](https://www.capterra.com/p/151962/SEMrush/) the price is more interesting and more easily to manage and obtain good informations Review Source Kevin M. Director of Business Development & Partnerships Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best Tool for Crawling; Tech SEO Must-Have" October 9, 2020 5.0 \- works exactly as advertised - best crawl tool on the market; multiple crawl setting to test security and site structures - precise reporting and native download of data - Sitemap management tool works well; very useful for larger site management with over 5K pages/types Pros \- easy to use and configure - reliable output of detailed lists of errors, issues, and optimization ideas - segmented reporting allows experienced users to zero in on specific issues - Sitemap.xml tool is top-notch and solves issues for large site implementations Cons \- the interface looks dated; learning curve to know where to find different views and data - needs to up updated regularly (not really a con -- users need to adapt) - limited documentation in the tool (need to consult the website for Knowledgebase) Alternatives considered [Sitebulb](https://www.capterra.com/p/169089/Sitebulb/)[Lumar](https://www.capterra.com/p/183841/DeepCrawl/) Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider Better overall functionality (Paid version) and data (reporting) access Regular updates mean the product is continually improved Non-SaaS means few issue with crawl settings Review Source Mia L. Digital Marketing Executive Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Best Tool for Technical SEO Audit " April 17, 2023 4.0 Pros Screaming Frog gives end-to-end technical SEO suggestions and errors in One Dashboard. Errors like Crawl errors, internal link errors, broken links, meta characters length, alt attributes can able to fix with the help of Screaming Frog. Cons Its Good For Technical Seo but we have to look for another tool for Keyword Research, competitor analysis, and backlink. it would be great if they include other SEO tools Alternatives considered [Ahrefs](https://www.capterra.com/p/176340/Ahrefs/)[Semrush](https://www.capterra.com/p/151962/SEMrush/) Switched from [Semrush](https://www.capterra.com/p/151962/SEMrush/) Fewer Options not having the option to do keyword research, backlinks audits Review Source Andrew C. Category Manager Wholesale Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Cost-effective solution with no sacrifices" December 6, 2019 5.0 Couldn’t be happier. With a little time invested in learning, we have a highly productive tool set at a steal of a price. Pros It can do just about anything you need from a crawler, and at a fraction of the cost of other top tools. Interface is straightforward and simple. Cons There’s a lot in the tool, so finding each part and learning it takes time. CSV exports for large sites are huge - an excel or other compressed version would be ideal. Alternatives considered [Sitebulb](https://www.capterra.com/p/169089/Sitebulb/)[BrightEdge](https://www.capterra.com/p/124928/BrightEdge/) Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider Cost. We didn’t need a managed solution, and it had deep features. Review Source SL Shawn L. Founder and Principal Consultant Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The Gold Standard Of SEO Crawl Tools" February 18, 2025 5.0 Screaming Frog is definitely the best crawl tool out there. It has comprehensive crawls and lets you export the data to use it in multiple ways. Pros Comprehensive crawl tool with a huge amount of capabilities. Cons The user interface may look a little dated, but it's very functional. Review Source BY Bijendra Y. Seo manager Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Such a useful software for SEO" January 15, 2025 5.0 I really love this software, all in one solution for seo. Pros I mostly use screaming frog for checking url 200 ok and generation xml sitemap. screaming frog provide full site checkup for seo. Cons I really like Xml site map generator feature for seo uses. Review Source CC Christopher C. SEO Specialist Package/Freight Delivery Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great value, rock solid SEO tool" February 6, 2023 5.0 Overall the tool is excellent, great value for a crawler than is very intuitive and will produce a starting point for any SEO strategy. No rival tool really compares for that price point. Any SEO should strongly consider a purchase. Pros Screaming frog is extremely simple to use. Simply provide the URL to begin crawling from and the software will provide a full report of issues the website may be facing from meta data to errant redirects. The layout is simple to follow and the language used to title issues is very accessible. Cons The software is not ideally suited to very large websites (like ecommerce sites for example), the bigger the website the slower the crawl setting needs to be to avoid errors or pages not crawled, but this can be very slow to produce a report. Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider Price, was the biggest factor. Deepcrawl is far more expensive. Our site is small so screaming frog was ideal for that size. Review Source MS Matthew S. CEO Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great SEO audit tool" July 27, 2023 5.0 It has been great.For 99.9% of my clients, it works like a charm.I can uncover broken links and other SEO issues.It does a great job on the page speed.I love the API integrations. Pros It works great to uncover any potential SEO issues with a website.I have used it with large and small sites - works amazing. Clear reports.Easy to use. Cons It does not have the key word rank tracking and back link tracking that some of the more expensive tools have. No big deal.I wish it did local SEO Alternatives considered [Ahrefs](https://www.capterra.com/p/176340/Ahrefs/)[BrightEdge](https://www.capterra.com/p/124928/BrightEdge/)[Semrush](https://www.capterra.com/p/151962/SEMrush/) Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider CheaperFasterI own the data and control it. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Marketing Manager Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The Standard in Web Crawling Software and MUST have for SEO" April 26, 2019 5.0 I've used it for personal use (free version) and for work (paid version) as both a content manager and general marketer. Primary use was technical seo checks on live and staging sites as well as occasional competitor research. Pros In short, it can do nearly anything! And best of all, the only real limit is your creativity. For example, while launching a series of localized websites in other versions of English (UK, AU, NZ) I used it's regex function to crawl our staging sites for common American spellings that had been missed (e.g. color/colour) There's TONS of support online and neat ideas for using it. Plus the latest version can run headless (i.e. via command line) so you can install it on a cloud server to do huge crawls without hogging your own internet connection or RAM. It's a must have for doing technical seo checks of your website. Cons \-Tons of options so not everything is super easy to find, but it's an advanced tool so that's to be expected. -Paid version is a bit expensive for ireggular users -Yearly license model is very annoying. Would prefer a 1 time purchase and then yearly IF you want updates like other software or plugins Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Spencer Online Media Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Must Have Tool + Great Value" November 7, 2021 5.0 Pros Screaming Frog is able to help me find broken links, audit our many redirects, find any issues with our meta data, and so much more. It's great value for the price. The integration was super simple, nothing to do except download and install. Cons I don't have much bad to say about this product. They've made improvements to their user guides which was a previous pain point. The UX is a bit clunky but not that important. Alternatives considered [Sitebulb](https://www.capterra.com/p/169089/Sitebulb/) Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider It had good reviews. Review Source RB Ryan B. SEO Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Screaming frog review" August 2, 2024 5.0 I use it everyday for checking errors on our website and for areas to optimise and improve. It's also essential during the site migration process Pros It's quick, it's a daily tool without credit limits like some cloud based alternatives. information is easily exported and it caters for everyone from beginner to advanced users Cons Would be the perfect tool if it was cloud based to save on memory Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior SEO Analyst Insurance Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Essential piece of the SEO Toolkit" May 7, 2020 5.0 It's an essential tool for any SEO or web development project administrator. Pros Fantastic crawling tool, with excellent API access to some of the most frequently used tools for any SEO. Advanced search and extraction features make it all all the more useful for site scraping. Cons Data exports can be a bit clunky, and Screaming Frog tends to choke on hugely massive crawls, compared to some of the competition. Review Source Katie W. Digital Marketing Manager Higher Education Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Screaming Frog Allows You To Be Confident In Your Landing Page Experience" December 16, 2021 5.0 Screaming Frog makes life so much easier for advertisers who send to 100s if not thousands of unique URLs with unique tracking codes. This ensures that we can fix any issues that are found, including discovering if our tracking is being stripped, if our pages are redirecting, if IT updated the page URLs without telling marketing, and so many more that we can immediately resolve. This is one of the most helpful tools we use. Pros Screaming Frog makes it incredibly easy to scan every single URL we're utilizing for advertising. We can quickly import all of our URLs from the advertising UIs and Screaming Frog gives us instant results. We can see if any of our pages are redirecting, leading to 404 errors, or aren't secure. It allows us to find issues immediately and resolve those in minutes. It also gives us instant peace of mind if we don't find any issues. Cons This is an incredibly useful, easy to use tool with no downsides that I can think of. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Online Marketing Manager Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Must have tool for all SEOs" September 18, 2022 5.0 Pros the tool crawls the whole website including its structure and gives me a good overview of all relevant data like metas, URLs, broken links etc. Cons the user interface is oldschool and can be confusing for beginners at the beginning. but with explanatory videos and research, you can quickly learn the ropes. Review Source Omar L. Digital Marketing Specialist Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "The most powerful SEO tool for technical optimization" June 6, 2019 5.0 Couldn't do properly my SEO job without it. For a serious SEO, it is a must-have tool. Pros Lots of features, always updated with changes in SEO landscape. You can use it for scraping, find hard to see technical issues, runs faster and can manage very efficiently resources in your machine when you are processing big websites (over a million urls). Cons Some help on the software itself could be useful (actually all support and tutorials are on its website), and some visualizations options can take too much time to load. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer SEO Consultant Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Awesome product for technical SEO" September 7, 2022 5.0 Pros This tool is a must in the SEO industry. It does exactly what you want it to do without any unnecessary features. It is fully customizable, which allows you to crawl any website, even the most complex. Cons The tool is not very ergonomic, but its basic interface allows you to find what you are looking for quite easily with a little determination. Review Source James R. Digital Marketing Manager Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Best tool for crawling every page of your site for SEO work!" April 16, 2021 5.0 Positive overall - it's always one of the first tools I download when I start a new marketing role just to get a baseline for where things are at and what needs to be optimized. Pros I love how quickly it gets me what I need - complete meta data crawls for every page of my site. It spits out a nicely formatted spreadsheet that I use to drive all of my optimization across our entire site. Cons I can't stand how it only allows the first 500 pages on the free tier. Not a problem for smaller sites, but if you have a ton of pages and sub-pages, it'll be really frustrating to not be able to crawl them all. Reason for choosing Screaming Frog SEO Spider Didn't consider any alternatives. Google Analytics is probably the closest thing to it, but it doesn't give you the meta data you need to see in order to optimize your site. Review Source NS Nicholas S. SEO Manager Food & Beverages Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Every SEO should use this tool" July 9, 2021 5.0 Screaming frog has allowed me to take a lot of super laborious manual tasks and essentially automate them. It's taken my SEO to another level Pros Screaming Frog is THE tool. I literally can't think of a single task that this tool can't do/support. Ridiculously cheap compared to other SEO tools on the market. Cons The UI is pretty ho hum, and there's a pretty steep learning curve. Those are honestly pretty minor gripes. I have to dig deep to think of any negatives Review Source RS Ruka S. Digital Marketing Exec Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Screaming Frog Review from marketing exec at Financial Service" October 24, 2023 5.0 Overall I am very satisfied with my experience with Screaming Frog. There are so much data you can get from the tool and can easily export to Excel to do data analysis. Pros Screaming frog provides such an in-depth data about your website. And it is very convenient to extract large amount of data very quickly. Cons There are a lot of functions that you can use which is a little overwhelming in the beginning until you get used to it but if you have certain things you repeatedly use, it is relatively simple. Review Source DO Dee O. Technical SEO Manager Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "My favourite SEO tool! " August 6, 2019 5.0 Would 100% recommend for digitial marketing agencies. Pros Range of features - everything from canonicals to href lang. Relatively easy to use - the knowledge base online is great too! Ability to crawl development sites in the run up to a new website launch. Cons The tool looks a bit scary when you open it (not the most aesthetically pleasing) - but it's not an issue. 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