Alternatives to Screaming Frog SEO Spider
A desktop website crawler for Windows, macOS and Linux that audits sites for technical SEO issues. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
A desktop website crawler for Windows, macOS and Linux that audits sites for technical SEO issues.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Screaming Frog SEO Spider.
Sitebulb
A website crawler for technical SEO audits, available as desktop software and a cloud service.
Sitebulb offers desktop and cloud crawling with prioritised hints and client PDF reports, but it is paid after the trial with no free tier for small sites.
Semrush Site Audit
A website audit tool in the Semrush platform that crawls a site for SEO and AI search issues.
Semrush Site Audit crawls in the browser instead of a local desktop app and ties into the wider Semrush toolset, though full use needs a paid subscription.
Ahrefs Free
Free website analytics, technical site audit and SEO metrics from Ahrefs for verified websites.
Ahrefs Free gives a hosted technical site audit plus backlink data at no cost, but it requires an account and verification of site ownership.
Sitechecker
An online SEO audit platform with a free on-page checker, site crawler, rank tracker and monitoring.
Sitechecker moves auditing to a web platform with a Chrome extension, monitoring and rank tracking, though most features beyond the single-page checker are paid.
Netpeak Spider
A desktop SEO crawler that audits websites for technical issues.
Netpeak Spider is a paid desktop crawler for Windows and macOS only, with no Linux version and no free tier after the trial.
Checkbot
Chrome extension that crawls a website and tests its pages for SEO, speed and security problems.
Checkbot runs as a Chrome extension crawling hundreds of pages for SEO, speed and security issues, including local development sites.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Screaming Frog SEO Spider as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Ahrefs Broken Link Checker
Free online tool that finds broken inbound and outbound links for any website or page.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a desktop crawler that finds broken links among 300 checks, free up to 500 URLs with a paid yearly licence beyond.
Broken Link Check
Free online dead link checker for whole websites or single pages, with no sign-up.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a desktop crawler for Windows, macOS and Linux that finds broken links among 300 checks, free up to 500 URLs.
Dead Link Checker
Online broken link checker that crawls a website or single page and reports dead links.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a desktop crawler for Windows, macOS and Linux that finds broken links among 300 SEO issues, free up to 500 URLs.
Dr. Link Check
Online crawler that checks a website for broken links, bad SSL certificates and malicious links.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a desktop crawler for Windows, macOS and Linux that checks broken links among over 300 issues, with the free version limited to 500 URLs.
Integrity
A free native Mac app that crawls a website and reports broken links.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and adds over 300 SEO checks, but its free version stops at 500 URLs.
LinkChecker
Open-source command-line tool that checks links in web pages or crawls whole websites for broken ones.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a graphical desktop crawler for Windows, macOS and Linux with SEO audits, free up to 500 URLs and paid beyond.
Sitechecker Broken Link Checker
Online tool from the Sitechecker SEO platform that finds 404 and dead links across a website.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider finds broken links in a local desktop crawl among over 300 SEO checks, free up to 500 URLs.
Siteliner
An online scanner that finds duplicate content, broken links and internal linking issues across a website.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider runs locally as a desktop crawler on Windows, macOS and Linux with over 300 checks, but the free version stops at 500 URLs.
SiteOne Crawler
Open-source website crawler that produces audit reports, offline mirrors and Markdown exports of a site.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a closed-source desktop crawler for the same three systems with over 300 SEO checks, but the free version stops at 500 URLs.
SortSite
Website quality scanner testing accessibility, broken links, browser compatibility and SEO against over 1200 checkpoints.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a desktop crawler for Windows, macOS and Linux checking over 300 SEO issues, with a free tier limited to 500 URLs.
W3C Link Checker
An online W3C tool that finds broken links and anchors on a web page or whole site.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a desktop crawler for Windows, macOS and Linux checking broken links among over 300 SEO issues, free up to 500 URLs.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
TechnicalSEO robots.txt Tester
A web tool that validates robots.txt and checks whether a given URL is blocked.
Redirect Checker
A free web tool that traces a URL's redirects and reports each status code in the chain.
XML Sitemap Validator
An online tool that checks whether an XML sitemap is correctly formatted before submission.
httpstatus.io
A web tool for checking HTTP status codes, response headers and redirect chains of URLs.
