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Screaming Frog alternative: LaunchRanked vs Screaming Frog

Screaming Frog SEO Spider is the desktop crawler most technical SEOs learn on. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, crawls your site the way a search engine would, and lists broken links, redirects, duplicate titles, canonicals, hreflang and more. At the time of writing (September 2026), the free version crawls up to 500 URLs; a paid licence is £199 (about $279) per user per year and removes the limit, adding JavaScript rendering, scheduling, and Search Console, Analytics and PageSpeed integrations.

LaunchRanked is not a crawler, and it isn't a substitute for one. If you want a list of every technical issue on your site, use Screaming Frog. If what you actually want is the fixes made and new pages published, that's what Autopilot ($49/mo, early access) and Done-for-you (from $999/mo) are for.

Where Screaming Frog is a great choice

Auditing any site yourself, at a low fixed yearly price.
Small sites: under 500 URLs, the free version covers the basics (broken links, titles, meta robots, hreflang, sitemaps).
Custom extraction and source-code search across thousands of pages.
Log file analysis with its separate Log File Analyser (£99 a year).

LaunchRanked vs Screaming Frog at a glance

Screaming Frog details are from their own site or our research, at the time of writing (September 2026). Prices and terms change, so check their site before you decide.

Feature and price comparison between Screaming Frog and LaunchRanked
Feature	Screaming Frog	LaunchRanked
What it is	Desktop crawler (Windows, macOS, Linux)	SEO services: Autopilot (content + Search Console) and Done-for-you
Price	Free up to 500 URLs; £199 / $279 per user per year	$49/mo (Autopilot) or from $999/mo (Done-for-you)
Finds technical issues	Yes: its core job	No crawler. We fix technical issues by hand in Done-for-you
Fixes them	No. You or your developer do	Done-for-you does; Autopilot doesn't touch site code
JavaScript rendering	Paid licence (Chromium)	Not applicable
Publishes content	No	30 articles a month, published to your CMS or opened as a GitHub PR
Search Console data	Pulled into crawls (paid)	Monthly Search Console pass: rewrites titles and snippets on pages ranking on page 1–2

Where we differ

It diagnoses; we act

A crawl gives you a list. Someone still has to rewrite the duplicate titles, fix the redirects and add the missing canonicals. If you have that person, a £199 licence is the best-value tool on this page.

Different starting data

Screaming Frog starts from your site's HTML. Autopilot starts from Search Console: queries where you already get impressions but few clicks. On Versely, our own product, rewriting titles on those pages moved more clicks than anything else we did.

Use both

We use a crawler ourselves before any Done-for-you engagement. It's not either-or: crawl to find problems, then decide who fixes them.

When to pick Screaming Frog instead

You want to find every technical issue yourself, on any site, for a small yearly fee.
Your site is under 500 URLs and you only need a free audit.
You have a developer ready to fix what the crawl finds. In that case you don't need us for this part.

Frequently asked questions

Is Screaming Frog free?

The SEO Spider is free up to 500 URLs per crawl, with a reduced feature set. At the time of writing (September 2026), a paid licence is £199, $279 or €245 per user per year, with volume discounts from 5 licences.

Does LaunchRanked crawl my site like Screaming Frog?

No. Autopilot works from your Search Console data and publishes content; it isn't a site crawler. Done-for-you includes technical SEO, which we do with a crawler and by hand.

Does Screaming Frog work on a Mac?

Yes. Its download page offers Windows, macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux builds.

Sources we checked

Checked on their own sites on 23 September 2026. Prices and terms change, so check before you buy. Domain ratings are approximate third-party estimates.