Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Desktop crawler for technical SEO, with AI integrations

#6 of 95.9/10

The cheapest serious technical audit, now with AI and MCP; it finds issues, it does not track AI answers or fix anything.

Best for: Technical SEOs and developers who want raw crawl data, AI prompts run over every page and command-line automation.
Skip if: You want AI answer tracking or a hosted dashboard for non-technical colleagues.

Scores

AI answer visibility 25%3No tracking of AI answers; AI is used for page analysis only.
Search fundamentals 20%8Deep technical crawl data; no keyword or backlink index of its own.
Changes it makes 20%3Finds and exports issues; no changes made.
API and MCP access 15%7CLI and MCP server on the paid licence; no hosted API.
Pricing you can check 10%10Public annual price and a useful free tier.
Evidence you can inspect 10%9Every URL's raw crawl data, exportable.

Scored against the rubric on how we rank.

Crawls your site for over 300 SEO issues, free up to 500 URLs.
Runs your own prompts with OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic or Ollama over crawled pages.
Command-line automation and an MCP server on the paid licence.

Price (from): €245 per user per year, as shown in euros on its licence page (USD and GBP available)
Pricing model: Annual licence per user, with bulk discounts from 5 licences
Free start: Free version crawls up to 500 URLs
API: No hosted API; command-line automation on the paid licence
MCP: Yes, MCP Server listed on the paid licence
AI engines: None tracked; uses model APIs you connect
Measures AI answers: Does not track AI answers.
Improves AI answers: AI prompts over crawled pages can flag thin or unclear content to rewrite.

Read on the review date. Plans change; the source is the final word.