Compare · Technical crawler
Siteory vs Screaming Frog
Frog wins on crawl power and exports. Siteory wins when you want a hosted report a developer can paste into Cursor.
This is an honest split, not a fake scorecard. Screaming Frog SEO Spider and Siteory overlap on “look at the website.” They do not sell the same job.
What Screaming Frog does
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a desktop crawler. The free licence stops at 500 URLs. The paid licence is a yearly desktop seat — public 2026 figures sit around €245 / $259 per year — with JavaScript rendering, custom extraction, and raw exports limited mostly by your machine.
What Siteory does
A hosted crawl of the submitted host. You do not install a spider. You get a shorter, prioritized list and Markdown. You do not get XPath extraction or log-file joins.
| Screaming Frog | Siteory | |
|---|---|---|
| Install | Desktop app | Browser |
| Price | Free to 500 URLs; ~$259/year paid | $0 / $9 / $49 |
| Depth | Deepest technical crawl in the category | Focused production findings |
| AI + security | Not included | Same report |
Choose Screaming Frog when
- You audit 10k–100k URL sites and need custom extraction
- You already know how to read a crawl export
- You want the cheapest deep technical crawl per year
Choose Siteory when
- There is no SEO specialist to configure the spider
- You need AI-visibility and security on the same pass
- The next step is a pull request, not a spreadsheet
If you are an SEO who already lives in Frog, keep Frog. Siteory is not trying to win a crawl-config war.
If you are a founder who was handed a 40-tab export, you do not have a tool problem. You have a prioritization problem. That is the report Siteory writes.
Questions
Is Siteory easier than Screaming Frog?
Yes, because it is narrower. Easier is not deeper. Use Frog when you need the raw crawl.
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