Screaming Frog SEO Spider vs. Serpstat

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Screaming Frog
Score 9.5 out of 10
N/A
N/A
$149
per year
Serpstat
Score 9.2 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Serpstat is a platform to manage online visibility. It is for companies that are interested in ranking and business online presence. Serpstat offers 50+ tools for: • Competitor Intelligence. Identifies market players to analyze • Content Marketing. Locates high-quality and ranking content • Full cycle SEO Management. Tools to improve Google rankings • Market Intelligence and Analytics. To explore a business's niche and world best practices used by market leaders •…
$59
per month
Pricing
Screaming Frog SEO SpiderSerpstat
Editions & Modules
Paid Version
$149.00
per year
Individual
$59
per month
Team
$119
per month
Agency
$479
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Screaming FrogSerpstat
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup fee$59 per user
Additional DetailsEach plan includes access to 230 Google databases. To meet the demands of big enterprises, Serpstat offers specific services to enterprise customers.
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Community Pulse
Screaming Frog SEO SpiderSerpstat
Considered Both Products
Screaming Frog
Chose Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Authority Labs is good for a limited function--tracking keyword rankings (though its keyword suggestion capability has recently improved as well) but doesn't do the page crawling that Screaming Frog does. Serpstat and SEMRush both have a lot more functions but also cost …
Chose Screaming Frog SEO Spider
The biggest difference between DeepCrawl and Screaming Frog is cost. Screaming Frog is significantly cheaper, and fits within a budget much easier. For most websites that aren't huge it crawls quicker to. DeepCrawl is the better tool for analysing larger websites and is easier …
Serpstat
Chose Serpstat
Serpstat is up there with the list of industry products, but fails to outshine them. All of the industry tools do the same thing, but each tool has their own features and differentiation that set them apart from one another. Serpstat seems to be the simple or generic version, …
Top Pros
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Features
Screaming Frog SEO SpiderSerpstat
SEO
Comparison of SEO features of Product A and Product B
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
8.0
50 Ratings
3% above category average
Serpstat
9.5
14 Ratings
20% above category average
Keyword analysis7.419 Ratings9.914 Ratings
Backlink management6.022 Ratings9.313 Ratings
SERP ranking tracking8.08 Ratings9.314 Ratings
Page grader7.020 Ratings9.410 Ratings
Competitive analysis8.025 Ratings9.514 Ratings
Site audit / diagnostics9.750 Ratings9.914 Ratings
Site recommendations10.022 Ratings9.67 Ratings
Task management8.08 Ratings9.33 Ratings
SEO Channels
Comparison of SEO Channels features of Product A and Product B
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
7.9
35 Ratings
4% above category average
Serpstat
9.5
13 Ratings
22% above category average
Local SEO8.116 Ratings9.211 Ratings
Social SEO6.510 Ratings9.57 Ratings
Mobile SEO8.021 Ratings9.64 Ratings
Global SEO9.127 Ratings9.813 Ratings
SEO Platform & Account Management
Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of Product A and Product B
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
10.0
39 Ratings
17% above category average
Serpstat
10.0
12 Ratings
17% above category average
Multi-domain support10.028 Ratings10.012 Ratings
Integration with web analytics tools10.032 Ratings10.07 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.3 out of 10
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Score 8.3 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
Screaming Frog SEO SpiderSerpstat
Likelihood to Recommend
9.7
(52 ratings)
9.7
(14 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
10.0
(3 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
6.2
(2 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.9
(18 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Implementation Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Screaming Frog SEO SpiderSerpstat
Likelihood to Recommend
Screaming Frog
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is well suited to auditing brand new websites, when you need a quick, holistic view of the websites technical issues. Its great for providing a top line view of a websites architecture, perhaps for a new business approach where you need to assess the scale of work to maintain a website. Its also a useful tool in situations where you might need to see whether a large scale change in the website has taken place, you can see word counts, pages and their https response codes. Screaming Frog may be less useful if you need an idea of the customer experience on a website, it doesn't really provide information that helps assess how fast a website loads, what issues might come up when trying to convert or faults with the payment process. Screaming Frog is largely a technical SEO focused tool, it also can't assess the quality of a websites, layout or the quality of the content used on the website. As mentioned, its niche, but very useful within that niche.
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Serpstat.com
If you are looking for an affordable all-in-one SEO tool to manage multiple websites then Serpstat is a great option. It is not the best in category for any one feature, but it offers a wide range of very good SEO tools, all housed in a single app. If you are serious with SEO, this will not be your only tool but it will save you the cost and trouble of managing several different SEO monthly subscriptions for various tools.
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Pros
Screaming Frog
  • Crawling client sites of up to thousands of pages. Gives you almost every tool that you need to do a proper SEO audit.
  • Custom extractions using CSSpath, Xpath, or Regex. I'm not even a techy, but their support section here is a huge help with the provided examples.
  • Customer service and support - Dan is ALWAYS very prompt to respond with helpful answers on Twitter if needed.
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Serpstat.com
  • Serpstat has an incredible Chrome extension. It allows us to perform an on-page analysis, domain analysis, and look at on-page SEO parameters. Rather than logging into Serpstat I'm easily able to access and view competitor and our own analytics at a moment's notice.
  • We love using the organic keyword tool to help us track keyword positions over time and benchmark against ourselves and our competitors. These reports also give a dashboard view of all keywords, along with keyword volume, keyword competition, and the average cost per keyword.
  • Being a global company it's important to not only view rankings in the US, but other major countries as well. With Serpstat we are able to view how our website performs all around the world.
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Cons
Screaming Frog
  • Requires Java. This isn't a huge deal as many computers already have it installed, but it's yet another 3rd party component.
  • The free version has a crawl limit of 500 pages per site. This is fine for smaller sites, but if you're running a big e-commerce site then you'll need to pay for Pro version.
  • The user interface isn't very pretty. This is an analytics tool so it doesn't really have to be, but it might be helpful for improving the overall user experience.
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Serpstat.com
  • As a complete product, Serpstat stands with other industry tools. Keyword data is good, but again, as someone who purchased a basic plan to demo the product, limited information really turns me away.
  • Compared to other industry tools, Serpstat is literally right in the middle. There doesn't seem to be any differentiation that makes it stand out against Ahrefs or SEMRush. Perhaps something exclusive to Serpstat would make the product more alluring.
  • Share counting doesn't seem too useful, especially as an SEO tool. The content marketing tools are going in the right path, but do not provide enough information to really be useful.
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Likelihood to Renew
Screaming Frog
The tool has become integrated into our teams daily workings and I have yet to find a tool other than scremaing frog to replicate all of our use cases for it. It's a great tool and we're sticking with it
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Serpstat.com
I am very happy with the program and their services.
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Usability
Screaming Frog
Easy for me to use because I have using the product for a long time and understand the ins and outs of it. If I was a newbie, I would be completely lost. It does take some prior knowledge to operate this software and understanding of what a crawl means
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Serpstat.com
It is pretty easy to use as an SEO tool as I've used a few others prior
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Support Rating
Screaming Frog
Screaming Frog is a relatively primitive system, and doesn't need to be supported by devs or other software. Screaming Frog does interface directly with some programs that are most needed (Google Analytics, Search Console, Page Speed Insights), so that's convenient. It isn't widely supported by other programs, but it also doesn't need to be.
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Serpstat.com
I believe I've only contacted support once because I had a question about access to a feature, and they told me it wasn't available on the plan I was on. No big deal, they were polite and prompt to respond and answered my question to my satisfaction. I haven't had any real issues with the software, so I haven't needed much in the way of support outside of that question, but I have no reason to believe their support wouldn't be helpful in more pressing situations.
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Implementation Rating
Screaming Frog
If the software was a little easier to use for beginners, there really wouldn't be an issue
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Serpstat.com
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Screaming Frog
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is probably the best non-client facing SEO audit tool in terms of technical SEO. There are other tools on the market that do a more complete job of keyword tracking, competitive analysis, and backlink profiles...however, for analyzing the technical SEO health of any website, Screaming Frog is the best
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Serpstat.com
I have used Google Analytics and found it to be good, but limiting. Serpstat does have a much more transparent way to identify, and examine the wealth of SEO links that my sites have. I've tried a few other free programs online for tracking ranks and I looked into other paid versions for SEO tracking. None of them had a good balance between value for money paid. Serpstat finds a good home in value and return.
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Return on Investment
Screaming Frog
  • Increased employee efficiency - We spend many less hours tracking down and reporting simple meta tags.
  • Better Client Servicing - We are able to ensure we have a total look at a client's site before we recommend anything.
  • True Pricing Structure - We are able to more accurately predict how much help a client may need based on factors such as size of site, number of redirects, proper use of meta tags, etc.
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Serpstat.com
  • We had a positive ROI with Serpstat in under a month. The time it saved us with website audits and the ability to cancel other monthly subscriptions, and redundant SEO tools, was a huge positive for us.
  • We save dozens of hours a month with SEO research by being able to use a single app for the majority of our SEO work where we used to have to jump back and forth between several different tools.
  • We've been able to offer prospective clients a free website audit as a lead-in for our marketing services. Serpstat has made it fast, easy and inexpensive to offer this valuable service.
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