Screaming Frog SEO Spider Pricing
- SEO pricing
- $23.25/mo at the smallest
- Free plan
Screaming Frog SEO Spider pricing starts at $23.25 a month, which is $279 over twelve months. There is a free plan. Every figure below was read from the vendor's pricing page on 18 August 2026, and one charge that the headline price does not include is set out below.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 18 August 2026.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider ranking and coverage
- In SEO
- #3 of 13
- Overall
- #29 of 122 tied
- Terms score
- 6.8 /10
- Referenced here
- 3 pages
Cost position 8.3 · Portability 7 · Subscription flexibility 5 - Ranked on published terms only: entry price against category peers, portability and subscription flexibility, equally weighted. This is not a quality score.How the rank is calculated.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider pricing at a glance
| Entry price | Free up to 500 URLs; licence $279 per user/year |
|---|---|
| Smallest invoice | $23.25 a month, or $279 a year |
| How that is reached | $279 a year on Licence, divided by twelve |
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | Yes |
| Free trial | No trial offered |
| How it charges | subscription |
| Priced plans published | 3 rows on the vendor's page |
| Affiliate programme | No |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 18 August 2026 |
Every Screaming Frog SEO Spider plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 18 August 2026. Charged as subscription. No free trial is offered.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | per year | Crawl up to 500 URLs, no configuration or saving |
| Licence | $279 | per year | per user - Unlimited crawl, configuration, scheduling and integrations |
| 5 or more licences Add-on | From $265 | per year | per user - Bulk discounts by band: $265 each from 5 to 9 licences, $249 from 10 to 19, $235 at 20 or more |
What Screaming Frog SEO Spider costs beyond the advertised price
Each of these is a figure you can check on the vendor's own page. The arithmetic is shown so you can redo it rather than take our word for it.
- Charged on top of a plan$264.96 a year
5 or more licences is charged on top of a plan rather than instead of one: $264.96 a year, which is $264.96 a year on top of whichever tier you hold.
Working$264.96 a year as published, which is $22.08 a month spread over twelve.
Computed from the plan table on Screaming Frog SEO Spider licence pricing , read 18 August 2026
What Screaming Frog SEO Spider actually costs over a year
A monthly price is not the same thing as a monthly contract. These are the plans above resolved both ways, per seat or unit where the plan is charged that way. Where a vendor quotes only a yearly figure it is divided by twelve rather than left out, and the Quoted column says which figure the vendor actually publishes.
| Plan | Quoted | Monthly | Over 12 months |
|---|---|---|---|
| Licenceper user | per year | $23.25 | $279 |
| 5 or more licences add-onper user | per year | $22.08 | $265 |
Screaming Frog SEO Spider pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against Screaming Frog SEO Spider |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sitebulb | $18 a month | No | −$5.25 a month (−23%) |
| Screaming Frog SEO Spider | $23.25 a month | Yes | This product |
| Ahrefs | $29 a month | Yes | +$5.75 a month (+25%) |
| Semrush | $139 a month | Yes | +$115.75 a month (+498%) |
Which Screaming Frog SEO Spider plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You need to crawl a small site once | Free | Up to 500 URLs, but no configuration and no saving. Enough for a quick look at a brochure site. |
| You audit sites regularly | Licence | $279 per user a year. Cheap against any platform subscription, and the industry default for technical crawling. |
| You are an agency with several auditors | Bulk licences | From $265 each at five or more, stepping down to $235 at higher volumes. |
| You need the findings explained for a client | Consider Sitebulb instead | Screaming Frog gives you data and assumes expertise. Sitebulb explains why each issue matters. |
| You want scheduled monitoring and dashboards | Do not rely on Screaming Frog | It is a desktop crawler. Use a platform for ongoing monitoring. |
| You are crawling a very large site | Check your machine memory first | Crawls run locally, so RAM is the real constraint rather than the licence. |
Verdict by who you are
Technical SEOYes
$279 a year for unlimited crawling is the best value in SEO tooling, and it remains the profession's default tool.
Developer checking a migrationYes
Redirect chains and canonical conflicts are exactly what this finds fastest.
Agency producing client-facing auditsCompare first
Sitebulb's explanations become the document. Screaming Frog leaves you writing it.
Anyone needing keywords or backlinksNo
It does neither. This is a crawler.
Should you buy Screaming Frog SEO Spider?
Buy Screaming Frog SEO Spider if…
- Technical SEO audits and site migrations
- Diagnosing redirect chains and canonical conflicts
- Anyone who needs a crawl without a platform subscription
Do not buy Screaming Frog SEO Spider if…
- Keyword research or backlink analysis
- Scheduled monitoring and dashboards for clients
- Very large sites without substantial machine memory
What leaving Screaming Frog SEO Spider would cost
low lock-in
Screaming Frog SEO Spider scores on self-hostable, documented export. Portability 7/10 ; lock-in is the inverse. How this is calculated.
Why local crawling still wins
Cloud crawlers meter you. They cap URLs per crawl, queue your job behind other customers and charge by volume. Screaming Frog runs on your machine, so a 400,000-URL crawl costs nothing beyond the time and the RAM. For a migration audit, where you need every URL and every redirect before and after launch, that difference is decisive.
It also means you can crawl staging environments and password-protected sites without arranging access for a third-party service.
Memory is the real limit
By default the crawl is held in RAM, which is fast and finite. Above roughly 200,000 URLs you should switch to database storage mode, which uses disk and handles millions of URLs at some cost to speed. Teams that hit an unexplained ceiling are almost always still in memory mode with 8 GB of RAM.
What to run first on any new site
A useful default sequence: crawl with JavaScript rendering off to see what a basic crawler gets, then again with rendering on to see the difference. Comparing the two exposes content that only exists after client-side execution, which is one of the most common and least visible SEO problems on modern sites.
The complement, not the replacement
Screaming Frog answers “what is technically wrong with this site”. It cannot answer “what should we write about” or “who links to our competitors”. Pair it with Ahrefs or Semrush for research, and with Google Search Console for what Google actually recorded. At $279 a year it is the cheapest part of that stack by a wide margin.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider questions, answered
- Is Screaming Frog SEO Spider worth it?
- Screaming Frog is the cheapest genuinely professional tool in SEO and probably the best value in this entire directory.
- How much does Screaming Frog SEO Spider cost?
- Free up to 500 URLs; licence $279 per user/year. The cheapest paid tier we recorded is Licence, published at $279 a year, which works out at $23.25 a month or $279 over a year. Verified against the vendor's pricing page.
- Does Screaming Frog SEO Spider have a free plan or free trial?
- Screaming Frog SEO Spider has a free plan. No free trial is offered.
- What is the best Screaming Frog SEO Spider alternative?
- It depends on the job. Sitebulb: Friendlier reporting and prioritisation, at a similar price. Ahrefs Site Audit: Cloud-based and scheduled, included if you already pay for Ahrefs. Google Lighthouse: Free for performance and per-page checks, but no site-wide crawl.
- Can I self-host Screaming Frog SEO Spider?
- Yes. Screaming Frog SEO Spider can be run on your own infrastructure, so the data stays under your control.
Opens the vendor's own pricing page. Figures here were read from it on 18 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
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Prices read from the vendor : yes
Read from Screaming Frog SEO Spider's own pricing page on 18 August 2026
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Plans and terms recorded : yes
3 rows, each with its billing period
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Original screenshots : yes
2 captured by us: pricing page, homepage
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Sources cited and dated : yes
1 primary source, each with the date it was read
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Product used first-hand : no
Not tested. This profile is desk research from primary sources
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Alternatives used first-hand : no
None, so comparisons here rest on published facts rather than use
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Vendor contacted : no
Not contacted for this profile
Where Screaming Frog SEO Spider appears on this site
3 other pages here reference Screaming Frog SEO Spider. Every one is listed below, so the figure can be checked rather than taken.
- Deal record Black Friday 2026 deal tracker tracked as no deal
- Another profile Scrunch picks it for crawl and fix the site itself
- Another profile Sitebulb names it as a competitor
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What has changed
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August 2026
- Licence price re-read for the AI SEO tools guide; unchanged at $279 per user a year
- Recorded each bulk discount band rather than only the endpoints
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August 2026
- Licence pricing and bulk discount bands verified
- Added plan picker and verdicts
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Screaming Frog SEO Spider licence pricing - checked 18 August 2026
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