Free Screaming Frog alternative

SEO Skill: Use the free web tools with no account. For your own data, add https://seoskill.dev/mcp to your AI agent and sign in with Google (read only).

Screaming Frog: Download the app and start crawling. The free version needs no sign up and no email. To remove the limits, buy a licence key on the website and enter it in the app. No free trial of the paid version is stated.

SEO Skill: Free web tools: backlink checker, Domain Rating, competitor keywords, SERP checker, traffic estimates, robots.txt, sitemap, schema and more. In your AI agent: Search Console reports (quick wins, low CTR, striking distance, content decay, cannibalization, traffic drops), page checks, index checks, before and after comparisons, and keyword research with your own key. A site crawler and internal links in the CLI.

Screaming Frog: Crawls a site to find broken links, errors and redirects, page titles and meta data, meta robots and directives, hreflang, exact and near duplicate pages, structured data, mobile usability, AMP, spelling and grammar, and accessibility. It also generates XML sitemaps, site visualisations, crawl comparisons, segments, custom extraction and custom source code search, a Looker Studio crawl report, scheduled crawls and a command line interface. It can send crawl data to OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic or a local Ollama model with your own API key. It has an MCP server (since version 24.1) on the paid licence only: the AI client can run crawls, read and export crawl data, read and write files in one allowed folder, and run Node.js scripts if you turn that on. There is no API.

SEO Skill: Google Search Console, Google Analytics, URL Inspection, Clicky, and DataForSEO or Ahrefs with your own key. Bing Webmaster Tools in the CLI. Free Domain Rating by Ahrefs on research rows.

Screaming Frog: Its own crawl of your site, run from your computer, Google Analytics (GA4), Google Search Console, PageSpeed Insights (Lighthouse and CrUX data through the API, or Lighthouse run locally), Link metrics integration, OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic or Ollama, with your own account

SEO Skill: Your browser for the web tools. Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Le Chat and any remote MCP client for your own data.

Screaming Frog: Desktop app for Windows, Desktop app for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Desktop app for Linux (Ubuntu and Fedora), Claude Desktop (MCP), LM Studio (MCP)

SEO Skill: Yes

Screaming Frog: No. The MCP server runs on your own computer, and the setup guides cover Claude Desktop and LM Studio only.

SEO Skill: Every on-demand tool, with no usage cap and no time limit.

Screaming Frog: Free version with no sign up: up to 500 URLs per crawl, with no limit on the number of sites. Crawls cannot be saved or opened, the configuration options are locked, and custom source code search, custom extraction, the Google Analytics and Search Console integrations, JavaScript rendering and the MCP server need a licence. Technical support is for licensed users. No free trial of the paid version is stated.

SEO Skill: The weekly site audit is $50 a month per site: weekly crawl, daily Google index checks, stored history, drop and return alerts, and a Monday email and webhook. Cancel any time.

Screaming Frog: £199 per licence a year for 1 to 4 licences. £189 per licence a year for 5 to 9, £179 for 10 to 19 and £169 for 20 or more. Licences are per user and last 1 year, then you renew. When a licence expires the app goes back to the free version. The pricing page also shows prices in US dollars and euros.

SEO Skill: Read-only Google sign-in. Your agent can start the paid audit for a site, which returns a Stripe Checkout link for you to open.

Screaming Frog: No changes to your site or to Google are stated. Through the MCP server the AI client can write files and run Node.js scripts on your own computer, inside the folder you allow.

SEO Skill: Search Console and analytics rows are fetched on each request and never stored, except what the paid weekly audit keeps for its sites. Your linked accounts and saved keys are kept, encrypted.

Screaming Frog: Its FAQ says data from Google Analytics and other Google APIs is only accessible locally on your machine. Crawls are stored on your computer in database storage mode. Crawl data you send to OpenAI or Gemini goes to those services.

SEO Skill: Google's 16 months, read live. With the weekly audit, crawl and index history for the sites you audit.

Screaming Frog: Not stated. You can keep your own saved crawls and compare them over time with a licence.

SEO Skill: Hosted service, with the CLI and local MCP server open source (Apache 2.0)

Screaming Frog: Paid desktop licence