Frase vs Screaming Frog

Frase focuses on Content optimization; Screaming Frog focuses on Technical SEO.

• 1documented difference
• 1documented the same for both
• 19documented for one tool only
• 1unknown for both

Billing

Frase: Month-to-month billing

Screaming Frog: Annual billing required

Free plan

Frase: Unknown

Screaming Frog: Yes · Free version

Free trial

Frase: Yes · 7 days, no card required

Screaming Frog: Unknown

AI engines tracked

Frase: ChatGPT (confirmed from Starter, the lowest paid plan); Perplexity (confirmed from Professional); Gemini and Claude (confirmed from Scale)

Screaming Frog: None documented

Documented differences

Both tools documented, and the support or plan differs.

Documented for one tool only

No documentation was found for the other tool. That is unknown, not a missing capability.

• Unknown for Frase: Server log analysis
• Unknown for Screaming Frog: AI visibility monitoring, Automated content generation, Automated publishing, Content optimization, Rank tracking, Backlink building, Citation and source tracking, AI competitor benchmarking, Prompt tracking, Content briefs, Content refresh, Scheduled publishing, Backlink monitoring, Link-building outreach

• Prices are listed in different currencies (USD for Frase, GBP for Screaming Frog) and shown as the vendors list them. Screaming Frog's £199/yr per user is about $265/yr per user at the ECB reference rate of 27 Oct 2026.
• Screaming Frog's lowest listed price requires annual billing; compare it with the other tool's annual-billing price where one is listed.
• The lowest listed plans are not necessarily equivalent. Check plan limits before comparing prices.

Plans

Frase:

• Starter$49/mo month-to-month$39/mo billed annually
  Limits of Starter

  1 seat, 1 site; 10 articles and 50 audit pages/mo; 20 AI Visibility prompts; ChatGPT and Google AI only

• Professional$129/mo month-to-month$103/mo billed annually
  Limits of Professional

  3 seats, 5 sites; 40 articles, 250 audit pages/mo; 50 AI Visibility prompts; Perplexity added

• Scale$299/mo month-to-month$239/mo billed annually
  Limits of Scale

  5 seats, up to 10 domains; 100 articles, 1,000 audit pages/mo; 75 AI Visibility prompts; Claude and Gemini added

• EnterpriseContact sales — Custom pricing
  Limits of Enterprise

  Custom seats/limits, white-label, SSO/SAML

Screaming Frog:

• Free versionFree
  Limits of Free version

  Up to 500 URLs per crawl. Includes broken links, redirects, page titles and meta data, directives, hreflang, exact duplicates, XML sitemaps and site visualisations. Crawl configuration, saved crawls and the advanced features are in the paid licence.

• Licence · per user · annual commitment£199/yr billed annually
  Limits of Licence

  Per user; licences last 1 year and are then renewed. No URL crawl limit (depends on memory and storage). Adds crawl configuration, saved crawls, scheduling, JavaScript rendering, custom extraction, AI prompts during crawls and API integrations. Bulk prices: £189 (5–9 licences), £179 (10–19), £169 (20+) per licence per year.

Prices last verified

Frase: 26 Oct 2026

Screaming Frog: 27 Oct 2026

Google Analytics

Frase: Unknown

Screaming Frog: DocumentedConfirmed from Licence, the lowest paid planAvailability on the free plan not verified.

Google Search Console

Frase: Documented

Screaming Frog: DocumentedConfirmed from Licence, the lowest paid planAvailability on the free plan not verified.

Looker Studio

Frase: Unknown

Screaming Frog: DocumentedConfirmed from Licence, the lowest paid planAvailability on the free plan not verified.

Make

Frase: Documented

Screaming Frog: Unknown

Public API

Frase: Documented

Screaming Frog: Unknown

Slack

Frase: Documented

Screaming Frog: Unknown

Webflow

Frase: Documented (publishing)

Screaming Frog: Unknown

Wix

Frase: Documented (publishing)

Screaming Frog: Unknown

WordPress

Frase: Documented (publishing)

Screaming Frog: Unknown

Zapier

Frase: Documented

Screaming Frog: Unknown

“Unknown” means we found no vendor documentation for it, not that it is unavailable.

Built for (vendor-stated)

Frase: Freelancers and consultants, Small businesses, Agencies, Enterprises

Screaming Frog: Unknown

Best suited for (SEOFinder editorial)

Frase:

• Small teams with one to five sites (1 on Starter, 5 on Professional).
• Keeping published articles up to date (Content Guard watches 10–300 pages).

Screaming Frog:

• Technical site audits run from a desktop computer.
• Auditing sites of up to 500 URLs with the free version before buying a licence.

Each vendor's own pages, read on the dates shown. SEOFinder has not independently tested these products.