Screaming Frog Alternative

By Abhinav Vasudevan · Published Nov 23, 2025 · Updated Mar 10, 2026

Here it is, Crab!

Ngl, this is how our hero section looked like when I pushed the landing page online. But then, I looked at the page with a more critical eye.

Original Crab hero section

Then, the underlying issue hit me harder: Screaming Frog is a registered trademark. And I don't definitely want to deal with the legal complications. Who is even going to fund that when Crab is all free?

As an SEO Specialist with years of experience, I can't deny how amazing Screaming Frog is! I've used the tool over and over again for SEO audits. In fact, I trust the tool more than Ahrefs or SEMrush, despite their in-built audit features. If you are a heavy SEO practitioner, it should be your go-to tool.

But here's the thing. Not everyone out there is a heavy lifter.

I execute SEO audits occasionally. But then, burning my pockets for an expensive tool like Screaming Frog, seemed unreasonable. Especially for students and solo founders, the cost of Screaming Frog can feel disproportionate to how often the tool is used. This is where Crab comes to our rescue!

Let me be honest. It is not perfect. Not even close to Screaming Frog or SEMrush. But at the end of the day, it does the job!

Also, curious how long this page will keep ranking without satisfying the search intent.

Hello! Are you looking for a new web crawler for SEO Audits?

You might wonder if Crab is a good fit. Let's make things easier for you!

Scroll down and you'll find as many details as we can squeeze onto a single page to give you an overview of Screaming Frog vs Crab.

We'll also give you a straight-up comparison of features, customer experience, and pricing.

FeatureScreaming FrogCrab
Find Broken Links, Errors & Redirects✓✓
Analyse Page Titles & Meta Data✓✓
Review Meta Robots & Directives✓✓
Audit hreflang Attributes✓✓
Discover Exact Duplicate Pages✓✓
Generate XML Sitemaps✓✓
Site Visualisations✓✓
Crawl Limit✓✓
Scheduling✓✓
Crawl Configuration✓✓
Save & Open Crawls✓✓
Structured Data & Validation✓✓
Accessibility Auditing✓✓
JavaScript Rendering✓✓
Crawl Comparison✓Soon
Near Duplicate Content✓Soon
Custom robots.txt✓Soon
Mobile Usability✓Soon
AMP Crawling & Validation✓Soon
Spelling & Grammar Checks✓Soon
Custom Source Code Search✓Soon
Custom Extraction✓Soon
Custom JavaScript✓Soon
Crawl with OpenAI & Gemini✓Soon
Google Analytics Integration✓Soon
Search Console Integration✓Soon
PageSpeed Insights Integration✓Soon
Link Metrics Integration✓Soon
Forms Based Authentication✓Soon
Segmentation✓Soon
Looker Studio Crawl Report✓Soon
Price$279/yearFree

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