Capability
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?
Sitebulb
Full crawl: Yes. Desktop Pro crawls 500,000 URLs per audit, expandable to 2 million. The cloud crawls up to 10 million URLs per audit and 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. According to the FAQ no API in the cloud yet, aggregated data via webhooks and a Data Studio connector.
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, Cloud from €110 per month. 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 for Claude and ChatGPT in Cloud and Desktop, since version 10 from September 2026, with ready-made skills.
searchVIU
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.
Screaming Frog
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.
Lumar
Full crawl: Yes. Crawls schedulable up to hourly, with JavaScript rendering.
Monitoring between crawls: Partial. No ongoing monitoring. The substitute is frequent crawls or Protect, both of which use up the URL allowance. No dedicated robots.txt monitoring.
Alerts by impact: Partial. Thresholds by number of affected URLs, Smart Alerts with two levels. In the app, by email, Slack and Teams. Lumar reports the results of Protect checks via webhook, but names no webhook for Monitor alerts. Weighting by clicks or traffic is not documented.
History per URL: Partial. HTML and full-page screenshots per URL for credits, stored for 90 days. Seven active crawls, older ones are archived after 60 days.
Checks before release: Yes. Protect checks SEO rules in the CI/CD pipeline and can stop a build.
Relaunch and migration: Partial. Comparison against a test site and Changed Metrics. No redirect mapping.
Combining data: Yes. Search Console, GA4, Adobe Analytics, a summary of the logs, GraphQL API and Looker connector.
Standard reports: Yes. Over 250 reports for every crawl.
Reports on demand: Partial. Custom reports from filters and columns, custom metrics. The professional services mention tailored dashboards, price not published.
Log file analysis: Partial. Only a summary of the logs, from Splunk, Logz.io or upload.
Service and consulting: Partial. Customer success, plus professional services as packages or monthly support. Whether included in the price is not published. English only.
Security and data protection: Partial. SOC 2 Type 2 and SAML SSO. Hosted on AWS, region not named, no information on a DPA.
Price and getting started: No. No public prices, entry via a demo.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. Six AI engines, up to daily.
Rankings and Search Console performance: No. No rank tracking.
Working with AI: Yes. MCP server for reading and acting. We did not find a chat assistant.
Botify
Full crawl: Yes. SiteCrawler runs daily to monthly, with JavaScript rendering.
Monitoring between crawls: Partial. AlertPanel checks a URL list once every 24 hours.
Alerts by impact: Partial. Checks statistical significance and needs five crawls as a baseline. No severities, no weighting by traffic. Email, Slack, Teams and in the app; Botify does not mention a webhook.
History per URL: Partial. Crawl trends for 24 months, raw HTML for 1 to 6 months. No timeline per URL.
Checks before release: Partial. Staging can be crawled, the comparison with live is manual work.
Relaunch and migration: Partial. Guide with a manual comparison of crawls. No redirect mapping.
Combining data: Yes. Export to BigQuery, GCS, S3 and Redshift from Pro, plus a public API.
Standard reports: Yes. Reports per module, for example for crawl, logs and keywords, plus ActionBoard.
Reports on demand: Partial. Custom dashboards and queries across all data sources. It is not described that Botify builds reports for customers.
Log file analysis: Yes. LogAnalyzer as a core module, many log sources, 13 to 36 months of data.
Service and consulting: Yes. A success manager sets up the platform, trains the team and holds monthly calls. Professional services at no extra cost, consulting separate.
Security and data protection: Partial. SOC 2, SSO and DPA. Location not published.
Price and getting started: No. No public prices, five plans. Botify does not mention a trial.
AI visibility, GEO: Yes. Five AI engines, weekly.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Partial. Search Console data via RealKeywords, no classic rank tracking.
Working with AI: Yes. Botify Assist and MCP server.
Oncrawl
Full crawl: Yes. Crawl with JavaScript rendering for very large websites. Oncrawl does not publish which intervals can be scheduled.
Monitoring between crawls: Partial. Log data comes in continuously, and there are also alerts on logs. Oncrawl only checks pages, robots.txt and sitemaps in scheduled crawls.
Alerts by impact: Partial. Threshold by number or share of affected pages, with a preview across past crawls. Email, plus Slack and Teams via webhook. No weighting by clicks documented.
History per URL: Not documented. Crawl comparisons are documented. Whether and for how long HTML and screenshots are stored is not described.
Checks before release: Partial. Crawls can be started from deployment pipelines via the REST API. A ready-made QA component is not documented.
Relaunch and migration: Partial. Crawl comparison, plus logs show whether bots pick up the migration. No redirect mapping documented.
Combining data: Yes. Search Console, GA4, Majestic, Piano, your own datasets and logs. REST API, export to BI tools and data warehouse.
Standard reports: Yes. Hundreds of standard metrics and predefined reports.
Reports on demand: Partial. Custom queries with OQL, your own datasets and dashboards in Data Studio. It is not described that Oncrawl builds reports for customers.
Log file analysis: Yes. Log Analyzer reads continuously from Cloudflare, Google Cloud, AWS, Azure or upload, without sampling, including AI bots.
Service and consulting: Not documented. No scope of service is described on the website.
Security and data protection: Yes. ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type I and II, DPA. Google Cloud, EU hosting as an option. SSO not mentioned.
Price and getting started: No. No public prices, entry via a demo.
AI visibility, GEO: Partial. AI citations only from log data, i.e. visits from AI user bots. No prompt queries.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Partial. Search Console data, also stored beyond Google's retention period. No rank tracking.
Working with AI: Yes. AI Assistant and MCP server for reading and acting, depending on permissions.
JetOctopus
Full crawl: Yes. Crawler with a JavaScript mode, allowance of 500,000 to 5 million URLs per month, more on request.
Monitoring between crawls: Partial. Logs arrive ongoing to daily depending on the source, and log alerts report changes without a crawl. JetOctopus sees pages, robots.txt and sitemaps in the crawl.
Alerts by impact: Partial. You set the conditions and thresholds yourself. Email, Slack and Teams. Severity levels or weighting by clicks are not documented.
History per URL: Partial. Data for 12 months or for the subscription, the pricing page states both. Whether HTML and screenshots are kept per URL is not documented.
Checks before release: Not documented. We found no information on staging crawls.
Relaunch and migration: Not documented. A per-URL comparison or redirect mapping is not documented.
Combining data: Yes. Crawl, logs, Search Console, GA4 and Ahrefs in one product, data can be joined per URL.
Standard reports: Yes. Over 400 preset charts.
Reports on demand: Partial. Your own segments, extractions and imports. It is not described that JetOctopus builds reports for customers.
Log file analysis: Yes. Many sources, ongoing for Nginx, about hourly for Cloudflare and Fastly. Reverse DNS verifies bots, over 40 bot types.
Service and consulting: Partial. Chat or Slack with people, response within an hour according to the website. Scope of consulting not described.
Security and data protection: Partial. Company in Estonia, GDPR according to its privacy policy. Server location and certifications not named.
Price and getting started: Yes. Prices public, from €299 per month depending on the billing option. 7-day trial with 10,000 URLs.
AI visibility, GEO: Partial. AI bots in the logs and hints on whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude cite content. Prompt queries are not described.
Rankings and Search Console performance: Partial. Search Console data beyond 16 months, we did not find rank tracking.
Working with AI: Yes. MCP server in all plans, reads crawl, log and Search Console data and starts crawls.
Audisto
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.
