Screaming Frog SEO Spider

SEO and AI visibility Freemium Checked: October 2026

Crawler for technical site audits: free for up to 500 URLs.

What it is

Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a program for Windows, macOS and Linux that crawls a website and finds 300+ technical problems (broken links, duplicates, redirects, meta tags). The free version is limited to 500 URLs per crawl; a paid license costs €245 a year. During a crawl it can connect to OpenAI and Gemini for your own prompts, and to Google Search Console and Analytics. The interface is dense and made for specialists.

Site audit
Crawler
Technical SEO

Who it is for

Professions we suggest this tool for:

SEO specialist

Price

Freemium

Plans change; current prices are on the official page: screamingfrog.co.uk

Where the course teaches it

★The SEO machine: the full stack with Claude Code

Alternatives

Google Search Console · Free Google data: which searches bring people to your site and how it's indexed.
Ahrefs · SEO platform: backlinks, keywords, site audits, competitors and Brand Radar for AI answers.
Semrush · SEO platform (now part of Adobe): keywords, audits, competitors and AI visibility.

Official site

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Checked: October 2026 · source