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| Compare features | Screaming Frog SEO Spider | Sitebulb Desktop |
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| Best for | A desktop website crawler for Windows, macOS and Linux, useful for inspecting URLs, links and page metadata. | A desktop technical-audit application that combines crawling with issue explanations and visual reports. |
| Category | SEO & marketing | SEO & marketing |
| Paid entry price | Check official pricingMonthly equivalent, billed annually · Annual licence The free crawl is capped at 500 URLs. Paid licences run for a year; verify currency, tax and required users at checkout. | Check official pricingUsage-based or variable · See official plans Distinguish Desktop Lite/Pro from the separate Cloud offering. A trial is not a continuing free plan; check currency, seats and billing period. |
| Free plan | Supported | Not supported |
| Japanese support | Unverified | Unverified |
| Deployment | Desktop | Desktop |
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| Pricing checked | 2026-10-27 | 2026-10-27 |
| Official pricing | Check pricing | Check pricing |
Prices exclude tax, currency conversion and introductory discounts. Different currencies and billing periods are not directly comparable. Japanese support can apply to input, output or the interface; check each tool’s scope.
Use the same known issue
Choose an authorized site with a known redirect or broken-link problem. Align scope and execution conditions, then check whether each result identifies the URL and its source. Comparing defaults can measure configuration differences rather than a meaningful difference between the tools.
Evaluate interpretation and data handling
Sitebulb emphasizes explanatory audit workflows and visual presentation; Screaming Frog offers URL-level inspection. Test whether your analyst benefits most from guided interpretation or from transforming extracted data into an established worksheet. This is a workflow preference to validate, not a universal winner.
Separate the crawler from collaboration
For desktop use, compare under equivalent hardware and storage conditions. If Sitebulb Cloud enters the shortlist, assess its subscription, access and long-running work separately. Availability of a cloud product does not by itself prove that a particular team needs one.
Example: compare the same completed repair request
Use one recommendation link that leads to the wrong page as a comparison task. After locating it in each tool, prepare a request naming the shared source, affected articles and intended destination. Record interpretation gaps and manual transformations. This exposes a difference relevant to your team. More warnings from one product alone do not demonstrate more accurate fixes or a better outcome.
Reconcile settings before judging different results
When only one tool reports a URL or issue, compare scope, timing and the content each obtained. Do not translate a count difference directly into a quality ranking while the setup or website state differs. Inspect remaining discrepancies on representative URLs and record which output enabled a useful repair. You can explain a result in your own workflow without generalizing it into an unmeasured performance ranking for every website.
Judge the completed handoff
Measure the time to a handoff containing affected URLs, a plausible cause, a proposed fix and a retest. Record interpretation gaps and unnecessary features rather than inventing a public performance score. Then compare licence period and users against the workflow you actually completed.
Official sources
Pricing, availability and feature limits can change. Check the linked official pages before subscribing.
- Screaming Frog SEO SpiderInformation checked: 2026-10-28
- Screaming Frog pricingInformation checked: 2026-10-28
- Sitebulb website auditingInformation checked: 2026-10-27
- Sitebulb Desktop pricingInformation checked: 2026-10-28
- Sitebulb Desktop and CloudInformation checked: 2026-10-28