Screaming Frog is a desktop SEO crawler. crawlcrawl is a REST API for the same data.
Screaming Frog provides a visual UI and custom extraction workflows for manual SEO audits.
crawlcrawl runs in CI, on cron, or via webhook. It has no per-seat licensing and can audit thousands of sites in parallel.
| Feature | Screaming Frog | crawlcrawl |
|---|---|---|
| Automation | Manual runs only | Scheduled audits, webhooks |
| Licensing | Per-seat | No per-seat |
| Scalability | Single-site | Thousands of sites in parallel |
| Orphan-page detection | No | Yes |
| Site diff | No | Yes |
You need to automate SEO audits, run them on a schedule, or integrate them into other systems.
You prefer a visual interface for one-off audits and custom extraction workflows.