Updated November 6, 2026
JetOctopus: Fast cloud crawler with log file analysis. People look for alternatives when they need a lower price, a free plan or a better fit for a specific job.
These 3 tools cover similar ground. Each entry explains who it suits, how pricing works and what to watch out for.
| Tool | Best for | Pricing | Free plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lumar | Enterprise sites and in-house SEO teams | Paid | No |
| Screaming Frog SEO Spider | Technical SEOs who want maximum control over audits | Freemium | Yes |
| Sitebulb | Consultants and agencies who present audits to clients | Free trial | No |
Lumar, formerly Deepcrawl, is an enterprise crawler and monitoring platform. It is designed for very large websites and teams that want to catch technical SEO issues before releases go live.
Enterprise pricing on request.
Who it suits: Enterprise sites and in-house SEO teams.
Screaming Frog crawls a website from your computer and reports on status codes, titles, meta tags, canonicals, redirects, structured data and much more. It is flexible enough for almost any technical audit and integrates with Google Analytics, Search Console and PageSpeed Insights.
Free up to 500 URLs per crawl. Paid annual licence removes the limit.
Who it suits: Technical SEOs who want maximum control over audits.
Sitebulb crawls your site and presents the results as prioritised hints with explanations, charts and visual site maps. It is easier to read than raw crawl data, which makes it popular for client-facing audits.
Paid desktop and cloud plans with a free trial.
Who it suits: Consultants and agencies who present audits to clients.
Crawlers are the workhorses of technical SEO. They follow every link on a site and record status codes, canonicals, hreflang, structured data, internal linking and rendering. Desktop crawlers are cheap and flexible; cloud crawlers handle very large sites and teams.
Prices and features change often. Check each vendor’s website for current plans before you buy.
