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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Screaming Frog

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AN/A

    $149

    per year

    Semrush

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/ASemrush is a relatively popular search engine optimization tool set from the company of the same name based in Pennsylvania and founded in 2008. Largely the platforms relies on competitive intelligence, and features SEO staples like backlink checking, keyword analysis to refine SEO and PPC campaigning and locate low-cost / high-yield keywords, analysis of competitors who co-occupy desired ad and listing spaces, domain vs. domain analysis, as well as site audit and domain tracking. Semrush can…

    $139.95

    per month

    Pricing
    Screaming FrogSemrush
    Editions & Modules
    Paid Version
    $149.00
    per year
    Pro
    $139.95
    per month
    Guru
    $249.95
    per month
    Business
    $499.95
    per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Screaming FrogSemrush
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details17% discount for annual pricing.
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    Screaming FrogSemrush
    Considered Both Products
    Screaming Frog
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Please note that, while Screaming Frog is a great tool for scanning the website all it is, is a tool that scans the website. For deeper analysis or for keyword analysis, please take a look at tools like Semrush and Ahrefs for your medium size business, or Conductor for a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    I use several tools that can do much of what Screaming Frog can do - SEMRush and SEO PowerSuite. However, for what we use Screaming Frog for, it is the best tool. During a 15-minute phone call with a potential new client, I can crawl the site and determine what shape the site …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog is different than a tool like SEMRush. It is a crawler that allows you to see the data like Google would see it when they crawl your site. A tool like SEMRush, or MOZ, gives you more analysis around SEO for the website you are reviewing. I wouldn't want to be …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Authority Labs is good for a limited function--tracking keyword rankings (though its keyword suggestion capability has recently improved as well) but doesn't do the page crawling that Screaming Frog does. Serpstat and SEMRush both have a lot more functions but also cost …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    The HTML-heavy little platform, Screaming Frog, is my favorite crawler compared to DeepCrawl and SEMRush. Partially precisely due to the fact that the tool doesn't try to give me recommendations or tell me what to do. Many similar tools go above and beyond to prescribe …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    SEMRush is not a dedicated on-demand SEO crawler like Screaming Frog. SEMRush is more of a digital marketing suite that happens to offer SEO crawling along with other marketing tools. As such, it's much more of a commitment; which you'll notice with a monthly cost versus a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    SEMRush is a much more robust tool for SEO. It wouldn't necessarily be fair to compare the two since SEMRush has many other features. However, Screaming Frog SEO Spider is able to turn out a much quicker report on the website's URL structure and makes it perfect for getting …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    There are no tools which can do the things Screaming Frog does. In this sense, it has no competitors. SEMRush and Moz are more SEO management tools as opposed to web crawlers. They both have the capabilities to crawl websites and report on technical information, however, they …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    When it comes to crawling a website nothing can beat Screaming Frog.
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog provides some similar benefits as the other tools but offers a wealth of other scanning options that the other tools don’t. I like how every scan of a URL (yours, a competitor’s, or any URL) provides 30+ points of data. The other tools offer other benefits that …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    A highly competent tool that leads in some areas and not in others.
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog is a downloadable desktop app. Its minimalist design makes for a straight forward seamless site crawling SEO experience. We use all these products and Screaming Frog fits in nicely as a member of our SEO product team. Each product has its strengths and weaknesses …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    The tools I mentioned are in the same space, tools for SEO, but aren't website scrapers like Screaming Frog. We haven't found another tool that we like as much for providing simple and straight forward insights about a website.
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    I have not used any similar tools to Screaming Frog SEO Spider.
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider is probably the best non-client facing SEO audit tool in terms of technical SEO. There are other tools on the market that do a more complete job of keyword tracking, competitive analysis, and backlink profiles...however, for analyzing the technical SEO …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog is a desktop application that uses your own resources to crawl a site (Processing, RAM, Connection speed). Deep Crawl is a cloud-based crawler, and probably the best cloud based crawler out there. DeepCrawl can gather A LOT of data, but it becomes expensive. The …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    ScreamingFrog is the foundation of any good SEO strategy because it identifies key elements that always fall under white-hat SEO tactics. It's so inexpensive for 2 licenses and the value it provides is being able to build properties that can grow organic web presence over time.
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    We tried also Netpeak Spider. Good alternative to Screaming Frog. Right now we are comparing these two because Spider can do almost everything that Screaming Frog does. A huge plus for Screaming Spider is that it's very stable; we work with very big projects with it (10-20 …
    Incentivized
    Chose Screaming Frog
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider can provide immediate site results on meta title length, meta description length, image size, missing pages, crawled pages, etc. For us, Screaming Frog SEO Spider does not help us compare data across competition, rank keywords, offer keyword analysis, …
    Incentivized
    Semrush
    Chose Semrush
    Other tools like Moz and Screaming Frog specialize in different aspects of SEO, making them most useful in certain areas. SEMRush does everything decently but nothing excellently, making it the ideal one-stop-shop for a low-budget, small agency. But for larger agencies that can …
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    To be honest, I didn't give Screaming Frog much of a shot since it was so intimidating. I've heard good things about it but also have heard (and experienced) that it's a little harder to get into and to learn how to use than a solution like SEMrush.
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    SEMRush is really in a league of its own. I work with Screaming Frog, Moz, Hrefs, and MajesticSEO. None of them touch the comprehensive capabilities of SEMRush, especially for competitor analysis. SEMRush handles more than just SEO and SEM, but all things combined. Definitely a …
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    We selected SEMRush over HubSpot and Screaming Frog SEO Spider because this tool is more versatile and provides more insights on-site audits, errors and optimization ideas. HubSpot does not consider every Google algorithm enough and their onsite errors audit is limited compared …
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    all the tools are very good in each of their domain, but the tool Semrush is cheaper when you compare it with Ahref's but it comes in to the category of costly when you compare it with other tools like rank pro. The tool is good but also needs a good learning curve to …
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    Semrush provides a great amount of data to help with market and channel research while keeping current with changes in the search environment and how that impacts the competitive space for digital marketers. Other tools appear every week as things progress so quickly in search …
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    Semrush is a good middle ground and it’s not a tool you are going to be disappointed with. I think it’s good at all aspects of SEO so if you don’t have a specific strategy in place it’s going to be your best option.
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    Honestly, Semrush is the only product like it that I've used extensively. Although I have used Moz free version before and didn't love it.
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    Semrush is amazing. Not only is it easy to use, it's better than Moz or Ahrefs combined. The Keyword Research tool and planner is incredible. it makes it easy to pull what keywords we want to rank for and add them to our keyword list. It's helped with productivity and workflow. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    We have used both Ahrefs and Semrush extensively at our agency and Semrush remains the tool of choice. We find that Semrush has the largest selection of tools & features to use, with the highest accuracy, and provides top-tier analysis recommendations. It's really is the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    Our company uses nearly every major SEO tool. Semrush has its advantage in its UI/UX and competitive landscape while others have their advantages in other places like bulk management, backlinks (Ahrefs) and, auditing (SF).
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    Better keyword data, easier interface. (for me)
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    Moz was unreliable and not as intuitive as Semrush. The one thing I liked better about Mox Pro was that we could track the same keyword across many zips. This is possible in Semrush, but Semrush requires you to create a new project for every zip. It would be easier if you could …
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    I've reviewed a number of tools, and continue to periodically. Semrush easily wins for the breadth of coverage, and it does them well. Some tools designed for a single task win in those tasks, but none compare overall.
    Some other tools I've looked at are:
    Authoritas
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    Semrush was more comprehensive than the other tools and better maintained. Our key requirements for a product were that we could use the data and that it was cheap enough for us to use across the business. The competitors either weren't well maintained, had poor quality …
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    I have used ahrefs and MOZ in the past, but it was handled by other people and I was one of the business leads. ahrefs is very solid in certain areas of links, but SEMrush has a very deep database and that is part of the appeal. They also have a solid connection to Google. …
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    I alternate several tools. But for example, I used to use Moz and Ahrefs, now I only use Semrush for technical issues.
    For Keywords research I use Semrush and others, to have different sources of information and compare to validate.
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    Semrush is the widest-reaching tool with the most features, however, I find the keyword and SERP reliability can be a little off fairly often, especially when algorithm updates are concerned. Generally, though the tool is the best all-rounder and offers the widest breadth of …
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    I've also used Ahrefs and I'm not a fan. I find it very difficult to use and much more time intensive.
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    Serpstat - really no comparison. SEMRush is a much better tool. SERanking, it's a nice complementary tool to use for site audits in combination with SEMRush. SERanking is better for prescriptive analytics but doesn't offer the depth of keyword research that SEMRush does. Authori…
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    SEMRush has many more features than the other tools, and the workflow, or ways you access the tool, were smoother as well.
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    Moz Pro is perhaps more user-friendly, and cheaper. It also has slightly more features and a very active and supportive community. However, what SEMRush does well, it does better than any other platform, and that's the depth and accuracy of its keyword research. That said, …
    Incentivized
    Chose Semrush
    Google Search Console is free, so that's a point in GSC's favor. BrightLocal is excellent at search ranking reports but not as strong on other fronts. SEMrush is very good at analyzing companies to which you don't have direct access, such as competitors and prospects.
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Features
    Screaming FrogSemrush
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of Screaming Frog SEO Spider and Semrush
    Feature
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    8.7
    52 Ratings
    Semrush
    7.9
    152 Ratings
    Keyword analysis7.419 Ratings8.7152 Ratings
    Backlink management6.022 Ratings8.2145 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking8.08 Ratings8.1148 Ratings
    Page grader10.021 Ratings7.0127 Ratings
    Competitive analysis10.026 Ratings8.6147 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics10.052 Ratings8.0148 Ratings
    Site recommendations10.023 Ratings7.3137 Ratings
    Task management8.08 Ratings7.090 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of Screaming Frog SEO Spider and Semrush
    Feature
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    9.5
    36 Ratings
    Semrush
    8.1
    138 Ratings
    Local SEO8.116 Ratings8.3126 Ratings
    Social SEO10.011 Ratings8.0104 Ratings
    Mobile SEO10.022 Ratings7.7111 Ratings
    Global SEO10.028 Ratings8.3112 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Screaming Frog SEO Spider and Semrush
    Feature
    Screaming Frog SEO Spider
    8.8
    41 Ratings
    Semrush
    8.7
    123 Ratings
    Multi-domain support10.030 Ratings8.3113 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools7.534 Ratings9.0117 Ratings
    User Ratings
    Screaming FrogSemrush
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (54 ratings)
    8.8
    (152 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (4 ratings)
    7.7
    (8 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.9
    (18 ratings)
    9.9
    (17 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)