Seobility alternative When is Seobility enough, and when does your website need more?

Six alternatives, split into suites and tools for crawling and monitoring. With strengths, limits and prices, as of October 2026.

Michael Weber
Michael WeberFounder of searchVIU, around 20 years of SEO experience · updated on October 17, 2026

searchVIU is one of the tools in this comparison. How we compared them and where the information comes from is explained at the end of the page.

In short

The website has fewer than 100,000 pages, and an affordable suite covers your needs.Stay with Seobility
You want a suite with a visibility index and a large keyword database for the DACH region.SISTRIX
You want a suite with worldwide data on keywords, backlinks and competitors.Semrush
Your website is large or complex, several people work on it, and errors should reach the team channel shortly after they go live.searchVIU
You do in-depth technical audits yourself, on your own computer.Screaming Frog
You want explained, prioritized audits, also in the cloud.Sitebulb
You want to decide for yourself what gets checked, with schedulable full crawls.Audisto

What Seobility is today

Seobility is an SEO suite from Seobility GmbH, based in Nuremberg. A subscription includes a website audit, rank tracking, backlinks, an uptime check and keyword and content tools. The packages cost €59.90, €99.90 or €209.90 per month, excl. VAT. There is also a free account. Seobility does not offer an enterprise package.

Two kinds of alternative

Most people looking for a Seobility alternative want a different suite. They are after more keyword data, more rankings or a different price. SISTRIX and Semrush are candidates for this, or a larger Seobility package.

Other teams work on a website with more than 100,000 pages, or on one that several people change all the time. They need a complete crawl, monitoring between crawls and alerts in the team channel. For this there are crawlers and monitoring tools such as searchVIU, Audisto, Sitebulb or Screaming Frog. These tools replace the audit part of Seobility; they rarely replace the whole suite.

This page shows both routes. searchVIU belongs to the second group and costs many times as much as Seobility.

What Seobility does well

  • A lot of functionality for little money. Audit, rank tracking, backlinks, uptime check, keyword and content tools are available from €59.90 per month.
  • You can get started without a sales call, with a free account and a 14-day trial.
  • Seobility measures desktop rankings daily, with cities, the Local Pack and citations in AI Overviews per keyword.
  • The uptime check has its own threshold for response time and runs every minute in the Agency package.
  • Agencies get white-label PDFs, a read-only view for clients and 20 projects in the Agency package.
  • There is no notice period; you cancel directly in the account.

Why teams look for an alternative

Seobility analyzes at most 100,000 pages per project, even in the Agency package. For larger websites, only the first 100,000 are included in the analysis. Alerts arrive by email while a crawl is running, for example when pages cannot be reached. Slack, Teams or webhook are not documented. Between two crawls, the uptime check tests one URL per project for availability. There is no monitoring of changes to the robots.txt, sitemaps or individual pages. An integration with Search Console or GA4 is not documented, and there is no tool for relaunches in the product.

Who should stay with Seobility

  • The website has fewer than 100,000 pages, and an affordable suite covers your needs.
  • Daily rankings, backlinks and content optimization matter more than ongoing technical monitoring.
  • Email notifications are enough, and nobody on the team needs Search Console clicks in the alert.
  • An agency looks after many smaller client websites and needs white-label reports.

Which type of tool do you need?

The tools on this page work in four ways. The graphic shows schematically how each type checks over one week.

Suite with audit

Crawls the website at a fixed interval and adds rankings, keywords and backlinks from its own databases. This is how Seobility, SISTRIX and Semrush work.

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Crawler on your own computer

Crawls at the push of a button or on a schedule, as long as the computer is running, and goes very deep in a single audit. This is how Screaming Frog and the desktop version of Sitebulb work.

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Scheduled crawls in the cloud

Captures the whole website at fixed times, without your own computer. In between, the tool checks nothing. This is how Audisto and Sitebulb Cloud work.

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Full crawl plus Page Watch

Crawls the entire website every week, more often if you want, and checks the most important pages continuously, spread across the day. This is how searchVIU works.

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Crawl of the websiteindividual requests in betweenSchematic, one week from Monday to Sunday

The first type replaces Seobility as a whole. The other three replace the audit part and cope better with large websites. That is why a suite and a crawler combine well.

The alternatives

Every card has the same fields. The information comes from the vendors' websites, pricing pages and documentation, last checked on October 17, 2026.

searchVIU

Ours

SEO monitoring and crawling for complex websites, with relaunch comparison, reports and data consulting. Project data in the EU.

ApproachFull crawl plus Page WatchMTWTFSS
Pricefrom €399 per month, 50,000 URLs included
DataProject data in the EU
searchVIU: overview of SEO issues in the demo project
searchVIU, issue overview in the demo project

Strengths

  • Full crawl every week, more often if you want. Every URL is rendered in Chrome at no extra cost.
  • Page Watch checks the most important pages continuously, spread across the day, from 1,000 pages depending on the project. If Page Watch detects a change, the alert usually arrives within a few minutes. searchVIU checks the robots.txt every 15 minutes and sitemaps daily.
  • Alerts are weighted by the share of affected URLs and Search Console clicks. They arrive by email, Slack, Teams or webhook.

Limits

  • searchVIU sees all other pages in the full crawl, once a week.
  • No CI/CD integration that can stop a build.
  • No SSO, interface in English.

Good fit for In-house SEO teams with complex websites, as well as agencies.

Add-ons AI visibility from €199, log file analysis from €199, Rank Tracking from €99 per month, each only together with SEO Monitoring. Migration Pack from €1,999 one-off. robots.txt and llms.txt monitoring are part of SEO Monitoring.

Consulting Up to 250,000 URLs: 30 minutes per month with the team
From 250,000 URLs: one hour per month with a senior consultant

Details on searchVIU
Price
Public, excl. VAT. From €399 per month, 50,000 URLs included. Larger websites according to a tiered scale, with guide prices in the calculator on the pricing page. Add-ons are only available together with SEO Monitoring. AI visibility costs from €199 per month with 300 prompts included, log file analysis from €199 and Rank Tracking from €99 with 500 keywords per market. The Migration Pack for relaunches costs from €1,999 one-off.
Specific to searchVIU
Before-and-after comparison per URL during a relaunch, weighted by clicks.
Security
ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type 2, project data in the EU (Google Cloud). No AI training with customer data.

Compared with Seobility Replaces the audit part of Seobility and goes further on crawl, monitoring and relaunch. searchVIU covers rankings as an add-on, but not backlinks or content tools.

SISTRIX

SEO suite from Bonn, Germany, with a visibility index, keyword database, rank tracking, backlinks, on-page crawler and AI section.

ApproachWeekly crawl plus market dataMTWTFSS
Pricefrom €119 per month
DataEU data centers

Strengths

  • Visibility index and keyword database without setup, with up to eleven years of history.
  • Daily rank tracking in over 350 country-language combinations and over 10,000 cities.
  • AI visibility in AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity, as a beta at no extra cost. MCP server for all customers.

Limits

  • The on-page crawl runs automatically at most once a week. In between, SISTRIX only checks whether the homepage is reachable.
  • Changes to pages appear in quality assurance, without a dedicated alert. No log file analysis, no relaunch comparison.
  • The crawl allowance applies per month, and according to the manual, resources and external links count toward it. The full API is only available from Professional.

Good fit for SEO teams in the DACH region who track visibility, rankings and competitors daily and want a weekly on-page crawl as well.

Details on SISTRIX
Price
Public, excl. VAT. Start €119, Plus €239, Professional €419, Premium €799 per month, cancelable monthly. 14-day trial for Start and Plus. Crawl allowance 30,000 to 4 million URLs per month. AI features run as a beta, and SISTRIX reserves the right to price them separately later.
Specific to SISTRIX
Visibility index with its own keyword database and up to eleven years of history, plus backlink data, an Amazon module, and seminars and an academy in German.
Security
Servers exclusively in EU data centers certified to ISO/IEC 27001, core systems operated in-house. The site does not name a certificate for SISTRIX itself or a DPA. SSO via SAML, two-factor login, no AI training with customer data.

Compared with Seobility Also a suite, with its own visibility index and a larger keyword database, but more expensive. From the Plus package, the on-page allowance is 500,000 URLs per month.

Semrush

International SEO suite with Site Audit, rank tracking, keyword, backlink and competitor data, and AI visibility. Part of Adobe since April 2026.

ApproachSuite, Site Audit daily or weeklyMTWTFSS
Pricefrom €134 per month
DataUSA

Strengths

  • Large proprietary database on keywords, backlinks, competitors and AI prompts, for many countries.
  • Daily Position Tracking, 500 to over 5,000 keywords depending on the plan. Prompt tracking is included in the plans, the MCP server from Starter.
  • Site Audit with over 140 checks, including AI bot blocks and llms.txt. Re-crawls run in the cloud daily or weekly.

Limits

  • According to the help center, 20,000 to 100,000 pages per audit, depending on the toolkit tier. JavaScript rendering is only available in the higher tiers.
  • Email notification after the audit, other channels only via Zapier. We did not find any monitoring of robots.txt or sitemaps for changes.
  • Data in data centers in the USA. Additional users and toolkits cost extra.

Good fit for Teams that want a large suite with worldwide data on keywords, backlinks and competitors, including an audit.

Details on Semrush
Price
Public, in euros. SEO €134, Starter €190, Pro+ €286 per month, cheaper with annual payment. Advanced on request. 7-day trial and a free plan. The AI Visibility Toolkit is available separately from $99 per month.
Specific to Semrush
Worldwide database on keywords, backlinks and AI prompts, plus tools for ads, social and content in the same suite.
Security
Data centers in the USA, PCI DSS Level 1. SSO via SAML is enabled by support, data processing via a Data Processing Addendum. The security page does not mention SOC 2 or ISO 27001.

Compared with Seobility Broader and richer in data than Seobility, but more expensive. The limit per audit is similar or lower.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Desktop crawler from the UK for technical audits, for Windows, macOS and Linux. The Log File Analyser is a separate product.

ApproachCrawl on your own computerMTWTFSS
Price€245 per year per user
Datalocally on your computer

Strengths

  • Very deep audits with over 300 issues, custom extraction, custom JavaScript and AI prompts per URL.
  • Compares two crawls, including staging against live via URL mapping. Since version 24 with email after scheduled crawls and a local MCP server.
  • Inexpensive and ready to go immediately, free version for 500 URLs. Runs in your own network, without allowlisting an external crawler's IP.

Limits

  • Scheduled crawls only run while the computer or your own VM is running. In between, the tool checks nothing, not even robots.txt and sitemaps.
  • Alerts only by email, without weighting by clicks.
  • License per person, crawl data is stored locally. The size of a crawl depends on memory and disk space.

Good fit for Technical SEOs, agencies and in-house teams who carry out in-depth audits themselves.

Details on Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Price
Public. €245 per year per user according to the product page, $279 according to the pricing page, volume discount from five licenses. Free version up to 500 URLs. The Log File Analyser is a separate product for €129 per year.
Specific to Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Runs locally in your own network, no IP allowlisting needed. Custom JavaScript and AI prompts per URL in the crawl, with your own API key.
Security
Local software, data stays on your computer. A trust page, certifications and SSO are not documented.

Compared with Seobility Replaces the audit part with much more depth and without a limit at 100,000 pages. Rank tracking, backlinks and an uptime check are missing. It often runs alongside a suite.

Sitebulb

Audit crawler from the UK with explained, prioritized hints. Available as a desktop app and in the cloud.

ApproachScheduled audits, desktop or cloudMTWTFSS
PriceDesktop from €15, Cloud from £95 per month
DataUK and USA, at Prostack

Strengths

  • Over 300 hints in Pro, sorted by priority and explained. Plus crawl maps and a comparison of source code and rendered page.
  • JavaScript rendering at no extra cost. The cloud runs without your own computer, without a project limit and without crawl credits.
  • MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT in all plans. Integration with GA, Search Console and Google Sheets.

Limits

  • According to Sitebulb, no ongoing monitoring. Scheduled audits with comparison are recommended instead.
  • Alerts on changes are not documented. No log file analysis, no rank tracking, no AI visibility.
  • Lite crawls 10,000 URLs per audit, without a schedule. Pro crawls 500,000, expandable to 2 million.

Good fit for Agencies, consultants and in-house teams who want well-presented audits. The cloud also suits many large websites.

Details on Sitebulb
Price
Public. Desktop Lite €15 per month or €150 per year, Pro €36 per month or €365 per year, per user. Whether net or gross is not stated. Sitebulb Cloud from £95 per month for at least two users. 14-day trial without a credit card.
Specific to Sitebulb
Explained, prioritized hints with crawl maps. Desktop app and cloud from one vendor.
Security
Data at Prostack in data centers in the UK and the USA. Sitebulb only names certificates for the data centers, such as ISO 27001 in the UK. According to Sitebulb, all suppliers work in compliance with GDPR; a DPA for customers is not described.

Compared with Seobility Audit specialist with more depth and higher limits. There are no rankings, backlinks or uptime check.

Audisto

Cloud crawler from Gernsbach, Germany, with monitoring via scheduled crawls and custom tests.

ApproachScheduled crawlsMTWTFSS
PriceMonitoring from €199 per month (10,000 pages)
DataEU, location not named

Strengths

  • Custom tests with regex, XPath or CSS, with thresholds for alerts.
  • Full crawl schedulable up to hourly in the Monitoring plan, daily in the Crawler plan. JavaScript rendering in all plans.
  • Great analytical depth with 205 hints and PageRank and CheiRank analysis. Prices in euros are public.

Limits

  • Audisto checks nothing between two crawls. According to the documentation, alerts only by email.
  • No Search Console integration, no log files, no AI features.
  • Depending on the plan, three to five crawls are kept in detail.

Good fit for Technical SEOs and QA teams of large websites who want to define exactly what is checked.

Details on Audisto
Price
Public, excl. VAT, business customers only. Monitoring from €199 per month with 10,000 pages per crawl, €439 with 50,000 pages. The crawler alone is available from €99 per month. Audisto does not mention a trial.
Specific to Audisto
Freely programmable check rules, PageRank and CheiRank analysis.
Security
DPA for all customers, EU data centers (location not named). No certification mentioned.

Compared with Seobility Pure crawler with monitoring for large page counts and its own test language, but more expensive. There are no suite features.

Stay with Seobility

Seobility

Low-cost SEO suite from Nuremberg, Germany, with website audit, rank tracking, backlinks, uptime check and content tools, for smaller websites and agencies.

ApproachAudit crawl at a fixed interval plus rankingsMTWTFSS
Pricefrom €59.90 per month
DataData location not named

Strengths

  • Audit, rank tracking, backlinks, uptime check and keyword and content tools in one subscription from €59.90 per month, plus a permanently free plan.
  • Rank tracking daily on desktop, every three days on mobile, with cities, Local Pack and AI Overviews tracking.
  • MCP server as a beta. It reads data and can add entries such as keywords.

Limits

  • At most 100,000 pages per project crawl, 25,000 in Premium and 50,000 in Professional.
  • Alerts only by email, no robots.txt or sitemap monitoring as a separate feature. An integration with Search Console or GA4 is not documented.
  • The classic API has been discontinued. AI Visibility Tracking is already listed in the packages but, according to the product page, still runs as a closed beta.

Good fit for Smaller websites, freelancers and agencies with many smaller client websites looking for an inexpensive suite.

Details on Seobility
Price
Public, excl. VAT. Free €0 with 100 pages per crawl, Premium €59.90, Professional €99.90, Agency €209.90 per month. 20% cheaper with annual payment, 14-day trial.
Specific to Seobility
Permanently free plan, backlinks and WDF*IDF tools in the entry price. The uptime check runs every minute in the Agency package, otherwise every 3 to 60 minutes.
Security
Head office in Nuremberg. Seobility does not name the data location, certification or DPA on its website. The privacy policy names Cloudflare as CDN.

Compared with Seobility Keep using Seobility and switch to a larger package if needed, such as Professional or Agency. That increases projects, pages and keywords, but the limit of 100,000 pages per project applies even in the Agency package.

Comparison at a glance

At the top are the capabilities for technical SEO monitoring, below them three that belong more to a suite. Hover over a cell or tap it to see what the rating is based on.

Full crawlDoes the tool capture every URL, including JavaScript?
Monitoring between crawlsDoes it notice changes without waiting for the next crawl?
Alerts by impactDoes the important stuff come first, without the noise?
History per URLCan you see what changed when, with HTML and a screenshot?
Checks before releaseAre errors on staging caught?
Relaunch and migrationIs there a per-URL comparison in the product?
Combining dataCrawl, Search Console, analytics and logs in one place?
Standard reportsAre there ready-made reports that stay up to date?
Reports on demandDoes the vendor build reports for you with its own data pipeline?
Log file analysisAre bot requests analyzed?
Service and consultingDoes someone help you with setup and analysis?
Security and data protectionCertification, data location, DPA?
Price and getting startedAre prices public?
Beyond that
AI visibility, GEO
Rankings and Search Console performance
Working with AIAI assistant or MCP with the data?
Full crawl: Partial. Crawl interval freely selectable in days. 25,000 to 100,000 pages per project depending on the package; the JavaScript crawling technology is not documented.
Monitoring between crawls: Partial. Uptime check for one selectable URL per project, every 1 to 60 minutes depending on the package, every minute only in the Agency package. It does not check robots.txt or sitemaps.
Alerts by impact: Partial. Email for critical problems during a crawl, issues by severity. Other channels are not documented.
History per URL: Partial. History of values from crawl to crawl. A comparison per URL with HTML or screenshot is not documented.
Checks before release: Partial. Crawling with HTTP password protection is possible. Seobility does not specifically mention staging environments.
Relaunch and migration: No. No tool in the product. Seobility offers a checklist in its blog and a free redirect check.
Combining data: No. Rankings and backlinks come from its own data. Seobility does not describe an integration with Search Console or GA4, and the classic API has been discontinued.
Standard reports: Yes. Reports on audit, rankings and backlinks as PDF or CSV, also white label, plus weekly email reports.
Reports on demand: No. Ready-made PDF reports with white label, with little customization. Seobility does not describe a report builder or reports by the vendor.
Log file analysis: No. No log file analysis in the product.
Service and consulting: Partial. Support by email, and by phone in the Agency package. Consulting in the package is not documented.
Security and data protection: Not documented. Based in Germany. The website does not name the data location, certification or DPA.
Price and getting started: Yes. From €59.90 per month, excl. VAT. Free account and 14-day trial.
AI visibility, GEO: Partial. AI Overview tracking per keyword is live. AI Visibility Tracking for ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Mode is listed in the packages but, according to the product page, still runs as a closed beta.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Partial. Rank tracking daily on desktop, every three days on mobile, with cities and Local Pack. A Search Console integration is not documented.
Working with AI: Partial. Seobility MCP in beta, reads and adds entries. An AI assistant in the tool is not documented.
Full crawl: Yes. Full crawl every week, every URL rendered in Chrome. More often is possible but rarely necessary.
Monitoring between crawls: Yes. Page Watch checks the most important pages continuously, spread across the day, from 1,000 pages depending on the project. The weekly full crawl checks all other pages. If Page Watch detects a change, the alert usually arrives within a few minutes by email, Slack, Teams or webhook. Plus robots.txt every 15 minutes and sitemaps daily.
Alerts by impact: Yes. Weighted by the share of affected URLs and Search Console clicks, with severities and custom rules per segment. Email, Slack, Teams, webhook. Other tools weight alerts too, Conductor for example by an importance score.
History per URL: Yes. Full HTML and a screenshot per URL, week by week, with diffs. 6 months by default.
Checks before release: Partial. Crawls staging and DEV regularly, including behind password protection. Staging Monitoring is in its pilot phase. No CI/CD integration.
Relaunch and migration: Yes. Before-and-after comparison per URL, weighted by clicks. Plus redirect mapping and export. The Migration Pack costs from €1,999 one-off.
Combining data: Yes. Crawl, Search Console, GA4, rankings, AI answers and log files in one project. BigQuery on request.
Standard reports: Yes. Over 80 standard reports, updated every week.
Reports on demand: Yes. searchVIU builds reports beyond the standard reports to your requirements, including with a dedicated data pipeline. Example: products per category, matched against log files and traffic.
Log file analysis: Yes. Add-on from €199 per month. Analyzes bot requests, including AI bots, with verification of genuine bots. Cloudflare and other log sources.
Service and consulting: Yes. Setup by searchVIU. Data consulting included, 30 minutes per month with the team, from 250,000 URLs one hour with a senior consultant. Consulting in German and English, interface in English.
Security and data protection: Yes. ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type 2, project data in the EU (Google Cloud), no AI training with customer data, granular roles. No SSO.
Price and getting started: Yes. From €399 per month, 50,000 URLs included. Larger websites according to a tiered scale, guide prices in the calculator. Entry via a demo.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. Add-on from €199 per month, 300 prompts included. ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode weekly, more engines and daily queries can be added. Reports on share of voice, sentiment, recommendations and cited sources, plus the sources AI answers cite for competitors but not for you. robots.txt for AI bots and llms.txt monitoring once a day are part of SEO Monitoring.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Yes. Rank Tracking as an add-on from €99 per month, 500 keywords per market included. Weekly, daily possible. SEO Performance Monitoring with Search Console data.
Working with AI: Yes. AI assistant and MCP server at no extra cost. The MCP server reads the project's data and cannot change anything.
Full crawl: Yes. The Optimizer crawls the entire website with JavaScript, usually once a week. The monthly allowance also counts resources and external links.
Monitoring between crawls: Partial. Between crawls, SISTRIX checks once a minute whether the homepage is reachable. Monitoring of robots.txt or sitemaps is not described.
Alerts by impact: Partial. Alerts for visibility, keywords, rankings and Amazon. In the Optimizer, SISTRIX only warns when the homepage is unreachable.
History per URL: Partial. Quality assurance compares two crawls, for example new and disappeared URLs or changed titles. HTML or screenshots per URL are not documented.
Checks before release: Partial. Staging can be crawled with HTTP login. A comparison with live is not described.
Relaunch and migration: No. No tool in the product. There are guides on relaunches.
Combining data: Partial. Search Console in the Optimizer, Looker Studio connector and API. There are no log files or BigQuery, and GA4 is not documented.
Standard reports: Yes. Report builder, white-label PDF and automatic sending by email.
Reports on demand: Partial. Report builder for building your own reports. Reports that SISTRIX builds for customers are not described.
Log file analysis: No. No log file analysis in the product.
Service and consulting: Partial. Support by email and phone from Monday to Friday, seminars depending on the package. Consulting is not included.
Security and data protection: Partial. Servers exclusively in EU data centers certified to ISO/IEC 27001. The site does not name a certificate for SISTRIX itself or a DPA. SSO via SAML, two-factor login.
Price and getting started: Yes. €119 to €799 per month public, cancelable monthly. 14-day trial for Start and Plus.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity according to the AI page (the manual names three engines), daily or weekly. 9,300 to 139,500 prompt updates per month depending on the package, plus prompt research. Currently a beta at no extra cost.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Yes. Daily in over 350 country-language combinations and over 10,000 cities, desktop, mobile and tablet. Search Console data in the Optimizer.
Working with AI: Yes. MCP server for all users via OAuth, AI Deep Dives with chat.
Full crawl: Partial. According to the help center, 20,000 to 100,000 pages per audit, depending on the toolkit tier. JavaScript rendering is only available in the higher tiers.
Monitoring between crawls: No. Scheduled re-crawls daily or weekly. Ongoing monitoring of individual pages is not documented.
Alerts by impact: Partial. Severities per issue, email after the audit. Other channels only via Zapier.
History per URL: Partial. Comparison of two crawls. We did not find a history with HTML or screenshots.
Checks before release: Partial. Site Audit with Basic Auth.
Relaunch and migration: No. A tool for relaunch or migration is not described in the plans or the knowledge base.
Combining data: Partial. Google Analytics connection in Site Audit, log files via upload, plus API and Looker Studio.
Standard reports: Yes. Reports and dashboards for the toolkits, with PDF export.
Reports on demand: Partial. Report builder and white label. Reports by the vendor are not described.
Log file analysis: Partial. Log File Analyzer via upload, for Googlebot and, according to the vendor, AI crawlers too.
Service and consulting: Partial. Help center and onboarding. A consulting scope is not published.
Security and data protection: Partial. Data centers in the USA, PCI DSS Level 1, SSO via SAML through support. SOC 2 or ISO 27001 are not mentioned on the security page.
Price and getting started: Yes. €134 to €286 per month public, Advanced on request. Free plan and 7-day trial.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. Daily prompts in the plans, plus the AI Visibility Toolkit from $99 per month.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Yes. Daily rank tracking, 500 to over 5,000 keywords depending on the plan.
Working with AI: Yes. MCP server from the Starter plan.
Full crawl: Yes. With a license, no fixed URL limit; the size depends on memory and disk space. JavaScript rendering with Chromium. The free version crawls 500 URLs.
Monitoring between crawls: No. Only scheduled crawls, which require the computer or your own VM to be running. robots.txt and sitemaps are not requested between crawls.
Alerts by impact: Partial. Since version 24, an email with the changes between two crawls. According to Screaming Frog, the priorities are generic, and there is no weighting by clicks. Email only.
History per URL: Partial. Comparison of two locally stored crawls in database mode, with a license. No timeline per URL, the data is stored on one person's computer.
Checks before release: Partial. Staging can be crawled with form login or HTTP auth and compared with live via URL mapping. A CI/CD integration is not documented.
Relaunch and migration: Partial. Crawl comparison with change detection. Redirect mapping only as a workflow in a tutorial, without weighting by clicks.
Combining data: Partial. Search Console, GA4, PageSpeed Insights and link metrics per crawl. No data warehouse, no web API, the data is stored locally.
Standard reports: Yes. Many exports and bulk reports, a crawl overview and a template for Looker Studio.
Reports on demand: No. You build your own analyses yourself via exports, Sheets and Looker Studio. It is not described that Screaming Frog builds reports for customers.
Log file analysis: Partial. A separate desktop program, the Log File Analyser for €129 per year. Import of log files, verification of genuine AI bots. It is not linked to the team's crawl.
Service and consulting: Partial. Technical support by email for license holders. Training costs extra, from £500 for two hours.
Security and data protection: Partial. The data stays locally on the computer. A trust page, certifications and SSO are not documented, and the license is per person.
Price and getting started: Yes. €245 per user per year according to the product page, $279 according to the pricing page. Free version up to 500 URLs, download without contact details.
AI visibility, GEO: No. Prompts per URL in the crawl. The SEO Spider does not measure how the website appears in AI answers.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Partial. Search Console data per crawl, no rank tracking.
Working with AI: Yes. Local MCP server that starts crawls and triggers exports while the program is running. Plus prompts per URL with your own API key.
Full crawl: Yes. Desktop Pro crawls 500,000 URLs per audit, expandable to 2 million. The cloud has no project limit. JavaScript rendering at no extra cost.
Monitoring between crawls: No. According to its own comparison page, no continuous monitoring. As a substitute, Sitebulb names scheduled cloud audits.
Alerts by impact: No. Hints are sorted by priority. Only an email at the end of an audit is documented; Sitebulb does not describe alerts on changes.
History per URL: Partial. Any two audits can be compared, plus trends. Whether HTML and screenshots are stored is not documented.
Checks before release: Not documented. No public information on staging crawls.
Relaunch and migration: Partial. Audits can be compared. There is a guide and a course on migration, but no tool in the product.
Combining data: Partial. Search Console, GA4, Google Sheets and Looker Studio. No logs, no API documented.
Standard reports: Yes. Over 300 explained hints, PDF export and automatic reporting for clients in the cloud.
Reports on demand: No. A report service from the vendor is not documented.
Log file analysis: No. No log file analysis.
Service and consulting: Partial. Support from the team that builds the tool. Enterprise support as an add-on.
Security and data protection: Partial. Data centers at Prostack in the UK and the USA. ISO 27001 applies to the data center. According to Sitebulb, all suppliers work in compliance with GDPR; a DPA for customers is not described.
Price and getting started: Yes. Prices public. Desktop Lite from €15, Pro from €36 per month, Cloud from £95. 14-day trial.
AI visibility, GEO: No. Not available.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Partial. Keyword data from Search Console in the crawl, no rank tracking.
Working with AI: Yes. MCP server in all plans, for Claude and ChatGPT, since version 10 from September 2026.
Full crawl: Yes. Crawl schedulable up to hourly in the Monitoring plan, daily in the Crawler plan. JavaScript rendering in all plans.
Monitoring between crawls: No. Only checks in the scheduled crawl.
Alerts by impact: Partial. Alerts only for tests you create yourself, by email according to the documentation. Only the marketing page mentions Slack, Teams and Jira.
History per URL: Partial. Three to five crawls in detail, depending on the plan.
Checks before release: Partial. Crawl staging and compare it with live. No CI/CD integration documented.
Relaunch and migration: Partial. Compare staging with live. No redirect mapping, consulting costs extra.
Combining data: No. No integration with Search Console or GA4. API and exports.
Standard reports: Yes. Over 200 hints and topic dashboards per crawl.
Reports on demand: No. No report builder documented. The services only mention consulting.
Log file analysis: No. No log file feature in the software. Audisto offers log file analysis as consulting.
Service and consulting: Partial. Help with setup, phone support from 100,000 pages, consulting costs extra. Support in German and English.
Security and data protection: Partial. DPA for all customers, data centers in the EU without a named location. No certification mentioned.
Price and getting started: Yes. Full price scale public, in euros.
AI visibility, GEO: No. Not available.
Rankings and Search Console performance: No. Not available.
Working with AI: No. Not available.

Yes: included in the product, also as an add-on. Anything that costs extra is stated in the cell. · Partial: only part of it or only in certain plans. · No: not available. · Not documented: the vendor makes no public statement on this. The Seobility column stands for “Stay with Seobility”.

It does not have to be a single tool. One option is Seobility for rankings and backlinks plus a crawler for the technical side.

What searchVIU does not replace

If one of these points matters to you, Seobility or another tool fits better.

Backlinks, keywords and content

searchVIU has no backlink analysis, no keyword research and no content editor. For these, a suite such as Seobility or SISTRIX remains useful.

Daily rankings with cities

At searchVIU, Rank Tracking runs weekly as an add-on; daily is possible. Seobility offers analyses for cities and the Local Pack.

Uptime every minute

searchVIU is not an uptime tool. For pure uptime monitoring every minute there are specialized tools; Seobility has such a check in the Agency package.

Price and getting started

searchVIU starts at €399 per month with 50,000 URLs included, Seobility at €59.90. searchVIU has no free account to get started on your own. You start with a demo with Michael.

German interface and SSO

The searchVIU interface is in English; consulting is available in German and English. There is no single sign-on.

MCP with write access

The searchVIU MCP server only reads. Seobility MCP can also add entries.

Frequently asked questions

Is Seobility free?
There is a permanently free account with one project, 100 pages per crawl and 10 ranking keywords. The paid packages start at €59.90 per month, excl. VAT.
How large a website is Seobility suitable for?
In the Premium package, Seobility analyzes 25,000 pages per project, in the Agency package 100,000. According to Seobility, for larger websites only the first 100,000 pages are included in the analysis.
Seobility or SISTRIX?
SISTRIX starts at €119 per month and has its own visibility index with a keyword database. Seobility starts at €59.90 and includes backlinks and content tools. SISTRIX counts the on-page allowance per month including resources, Seobility counts pages per project. So compare the scope first and then the price.
Is there a German alternative to Seobility?
In this selection, SISTRIX (Bonn), Audisto (Gernsbach) and searchVIU (Bonn) are based in Germany. Ryte from Munich is now part of Semrush.
Does searchVIU detect errors before they cost traffic?
searchVIU detects errors quickly after they go live. Before go-live, the staging crawl does the checking. Staging Monitoring is currently running as a pilot. Page Watch checks the most important pages continuously, spread across the day, from 1,000 pages depending on the project. If Page Watch detects a change, the alert usually arrives within a few minutes by email, Slack, Teams or webhook. The weekly full crawl checks all other pages. Seobility sends an email when a crawl finds critical problems.
Does Seobility have AI visibility?
AI Overview Tracking is live and shows per keyword whether your own page is cited in the AI Overview. AI Visibility Tracking for other AI answers is listed on the pricing page as “coming soon”, as of October 17, 2026.

How we compared

We read the vendors' websites, pricing pages and documentation, as of October 17, 2026. Review portals and third-party estimates are not included. We did not use accounts or trials for this comparison. The information on searchVIU comes from our own product.

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