Screaming Frog vs SE Ranking
Plans, prices and documented capabilities side by side, from each vendor's own documentation.
A side-by-side reference, not a recommendation. Neither product has been independently tested.
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Screaming Frog
Lowest listed plan
Licence · £199/yr per user (annual commitment)
≈ $265/yr (Approximate US dollars at the ECB reference rate of 27 Oct 2026)
Vendor-checked27 Oct 2026 · Not independently tested
SE Ranking
Lowest listed plan
Core · $129/mo month-to-month
Vendor-checked26 Oct 2026 · Not independently tested
Screaming FrogSE Ranking
SE RankingSummary
Screaming Frog focuses on Technical SEO; SE Ranking focuses on SEO platforms.
- 1documented difference
- 1documented the same for both
- 16documented for one tool only
- 2unknown for both
- Billing
- Screaming Frog: Annual billing required
- SE Ranking: Month-to-month billing
- Free plan
- Screaming Frog: Yes · Free version
- SE Ranking: Unknown
- Free trial
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: Yes · 14 days, no card required
- AI engines tracked
- Screaming Frog: None documented
- SE Ranking: ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini (confirmed from Core, the lowest paid plan)
Documented differences
Both tools documented, and the support or plan differs.
- Backlink analysis
- Screaming Frog: PartialConfirmed from Licence, the lowest paid planAvailability on the free plan not verified.
- SE Ranking: OfferedConfirmed from Core, the lowest paid plan
Documented for one tool only
No documentation was found for the other tool. That is unknown, not a missing capability.
- Unknown for Screaming Frog: AI visibility monitoring, Automated content generation, Content optimization, Keyword research, Rank tracking, Citation and source tracking, AI competitor benchmarking, Prompt tracking, Content briefs, Content refresh, Backlink monitoring
- Unknown for SE Ranking: Server log analysis
Pricing
- Prices are listed in different currencies (GBP for Screaming Frog, USD for SE Ranking) 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
- 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.
- Free versionFree
- SE Ranking:
- Core$129/mo month-to-month$103.20/mo billed annually
Limits of Core
10 projects, 1 manager seat, 2k keywords daily, 100 AI prompts tracked daily, 5 GEO research domains, 250k audited pages/month, 25K/mo API credits with MCP, 25 Content Marketing articles.
- Growth$279/mo month-to-month$223.20/mo billed annually
Limits of Growth
30 projects, 3 manager seats, 5k keywords daily, 250 AI prompts daily, 15 GEO research domains, 2M audited pages/month, 100K/mo API credits, 50 articles; adds historical data, page change monitoring.
- EnterpriseContact sales — Custom pricing
Limits of Enterprise
Full API access, advanced integrations.
- Core$129/mo month-to-month$103.20/mo billed annually
- Prices last verified
- Screaming Frog: 27 Oct 2026
- SE Ranking: 26 Oct 2026
Capabilities
OfferedPartialPaid add-onNot offeredUnknown* Not yet verified
Not offered means the vendor says so. Unknown means we found no vendor documentation either way; the capability may still exist.
AI visibility8 documented for one tool only
- AI visibility monitoringOne side unknown
Evidence for AI visibility monitoring
- Screaming Frog: No vendor documentation found.
- SE Ranking: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for SE Ranking
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: OfferedConfirmed from Core, the lowest paid plan
- ChatGPT trackingOne side unknown
Evidence for ChatGPT tracking
- Screaming Frog: No vendor documentation found.
- SE Ranking: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for SE Ranking
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: OfferedConfirmed from Core, the lowest paid plan
- Google AI Overviews trackingOne side unknown
Evidence for Google AI Overviews tracking
- Screaming Frog: No vendor documentation found.
- SE Ranking: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for SE Ranking
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: OfferedConfirmed from Core, the lowest paid plan
- Google AI Mode trackingOne side unknown
Evidence for Google AI Mode tracking
- Screaming Frog: No vendor documentation found.
- SE Ranking: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for SE Ranking
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: OfferedConfirmed from Core, the lowest paid plan
- Gemini trackingOne side unknown
Evidence for Gemini tracking
- Screaming Frog: No vendor documentation found.
- SE Ranking: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for SE Ranking
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: OfferedConfirmed from Core, the lowest paid plan
- Citation and source trackingOne side unknown
Evidence for Citation and source tracking
- Screaming Frog: No vendor documentation found.
- SE Ranking: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for SE Ranking
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: OfferedPlan not specified
- AI competitor benchmarkingOne side unknown
Evidence for AI competitor benchmarking
- Screaming Frog: No vendor documentation found.
- SE Ranking: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for SE Ranking
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: OfferedPlan not specified
- Prompt trackingOne side unknown
Evidence for Prompt tracking
- Screaming Frog: No vendor documentation found.
- SE Ranking: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for SE Ranking
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: OfferedConfirmed from Core, the lowest paid plan
Content & publishing4 documented for one tool only
- Automated content generationOne side unknown
Evidence for Automated content generation
- Screaming Frog: No vendor documentation found.
- SE Ranking: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for SE Ranking
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: OfferedConfirmed from Core, the lowest paid plan
- Automated publishing
Evidence for Automated publishing
- Screaming Frog: No vendor documentation found.
- SE Ranking: No vendor documentation found.
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: Unknown
- Content optimizationOne side unknown
Evidence for Content optimization
- Screaming Frog: No vendor documentation found.
- SE Ranking: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for SE Ranking
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: OfferedPlan not specified
- Content briefsOne side unknown
Evidence for Content briefs
- Screaming Frog: No vendor documentation found.
- SE Ranking: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for SE Ranking
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: OfferedPlan not specified
- Content refreshOne side unknown
Evidence for Content refresh
- Screaming Frog: No vendor documentation found.
- SE Ranking: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for SE Ranking
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: OfferedPlan not specified
SEO research2 documented for one tool only
- Keyword researchOne side unknown
Evidence for Keyword research
- Screaming Frog: No vendor documentation found.
- SE Ranking: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for SE Ranking
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: OfferedConfirmed from Core, the lowest paid plan
- Rank trackingOne side unknown
Evidence for Rank tracking
- Screaming Frog: No vendor documentation found.
- SE Ranking: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for SE Ranking
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: OfferedConfirmed from Core, the lowest paid plan
Technical SEO1 documented for one tool only
- Technical site audit
Evidence for Technical site audit
- Screaming Frog: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for Screaming Frog
- SE Ranking: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for SE Ranking
- Screaming Frog: OfferedConfirmed on the free plan
- SE Ranking: OfferedConfirmed from Core, the lowest paid plan
- Server log analysisOne side unknown
Evidence for Server log analysis
- Screaming Frog: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentationVendor notes: Log file analysis is a separate product, the Log File Analyser, with its own licence at £99 per user per year. Its free version analyses up to 1,000 log events in 1 project. Source for Screaming Frog
- SE Ranking: No vendor documentation found.
- Screaming Frog: Paid add-on
- SE Ranking: Unknown
Backlinks1 difference · 1 documented for one tool only
- Backlink analysisDiffers
Evidence for Backlink analysis
- Screaming Frog: Verified 27 Oct 2026 against vendor documentationVendor notes: Pulls link metrics from Majestic, Ahrefs or Moz into a crawl through those providers' APIs. Source for Screaming Frog
- SE Ranking: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for SE Ranking
- Screaming Frog: PartialConfirmed from Licence, the lowest paid planAvailability on the free plan not verified.
- SE Ranking: OfferedConfirmed from Core, the lowest paid plan
- Backlink building
Evidence for Backlink building
- Screaming Frog: No vendor documentation found.
- SE Ranking: No vendor documentation found.
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: Unknown
- Backlink monitoringOne side unknown
Evidence for Backlink monitoring
- Screaming Frog: No vendor documentation found.
- SE Ranking: Verified 26 Oct 2026 against vendor documentation Source for SE Ranking
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: OfferedPlan not specified
Integrations
- Google Analytics
- Screaming Frog: DocumentedConfirmed from Licence, the lowest paid planAvailability on the free plan not verified.
- SE Ranking: Documented
- Google Search Console
- Screaming Frog: DocumentedConfirmed from Licence, the lowest paid planAvailability on the free plan not verified.
- SE Ranking: Documented
- Looker Studio
- Screaming Frog: DocumentedConfirmed from Licence, the lowest paid planAvailability on the free plan not verified.
- SE Ranking: Documented
- Make
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: Documented
- Public API
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: Listed (not yet verified)
- Wix
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: Documented
- WordPress
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: Documented (publishing)
- Zapier
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: Documented
“Unknown” means we found no vendor documentation for it, not that it is unavailable.
Who they are for
- Built for (vendor-stated)
- Screaming Frog: Unknown
- SE Ranking: Agencies, Enterprises
- Best suited for (SEOFinder editorial)
- 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.
- SE Ranking:
- Teams tracking thousands of keywords daily (2,000 on Core, 5,000 on Growth).
- Teams that also want AI-written content (25 articles a month on Core, 50 on Growth).
Sources
Each vendor's own pages, read on the dates shown. SEOFinder has not independently tested these products.
Screaming Frog
Full profile of Screaming FrogChecked 27 Oct 2026
