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Sitebulb alternatives: 2026 prices and free tiers

Short answer: the closest Sitebulb alternative is Screaming Frog, free up to 500 URLs and £199 ($279) a year for unlimited crawling, against Sitebulb Lite at $18/mo (10,000 URLs per audit) and Pro at $42/mo (500,000). To audit a site you own for free, Ahrefs Free runs 170+ checks on 5,000 crawl credits a month per project. Prices checked 7 October 2026.

Sitebulb is built around explanation: each issue it finds comes as a Hint that says why it matters and how to fix it, with 100+ Hints on Lite and 300+ on Pro. Both desktop plans (Windows or Mac) crawl JavaScript and include MCP access, and there's a 14-day trial of Pro with no card. Sitebulb Cloud runs in the browser from $125/mo.

We don't crawl sites, so we're not a Sitebulb alternative in the literal sense. We're an option if the audit keeps telling you what's wrong and nobody has time to fix it: Done-for-you (from $999/mo) does the fixes, and Autopilot ($49/mo, founding price) publishes content and rewrites titles from Search Console.

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Where Sitebulb is a great choice

People learning technical SEO: Hints explain each issue in plain language.
Client-facing audits with customised PDF reports and audit comparisons (Pro).
Crawling big sites from a laptop: Pro defaults to 500,000 URLs per audit and can be raised to 2 million, depending on your machine.
Teams that need browser-based, scheduled crawls without a desktop machine (Cloud).

LaunchRanked vs Sitebulb at a glance

Sitebulb 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 Sitebulb and LaunchRanked
Feature	Sitebulb	LaunchRanked
What it is	Crawler with prioritised Hints (desktop or cloud)	Content autopilot and done-for-you SEO
Price	Desktop Lite $18/mo ($180 a year), Pro $42/mo ($425 a year); Cloud from $125/mo	$49/mo or from $999/mo
URLs per audit	10,000 (Lite), 500,000 (Pro, adjustable to 2 million)	Not a crawler
Free trial	14 days of Pro, no card; no free plan	Free launch and free page-level checkers; Autopilot has a 7-day free trial
Hints	100+ (Lite), 300+ (Pro)	Not applicable
Accessibility, structured data and hreflang audits	Pro only	Structured data is part of Done-for-you
Publishes content	No	30 articles a month, published to your CMS or opened as a GitHub PR
AI visibility	Not a tracker	25 prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, every week

Where we differ

Screaming Frog: unlimited crawling for less than Pro, free to 500 URLs

£199 or $279 per licence per year ($265 from 5 licences) for unlimited crawling, limited by your machine's memory, against Sitebulb Pro's $425 a year. The free version crawls 500 URLs and covers broken links, redirects, titles, meta data, robots directives, hreflang, duplicates and XML sitemaps, but not JavaScript rendering, scheduling, saved crawls, Search Console integration or accessibility audits.

Ahrefs Free: a free audit of your own sites

Unlimited verified sites, a Site Audit with 170+ checks and 5,000 crawl credits a month per project (only HTML pages with a 200 status use credits). It audits sites you own and can verify, so it can't crawl a competitor's site.

Semrush Site Audit: 140+ checks, and a small free allowance

Over 140 checks, including AI-readiness. Semrush's help page lists a free allowance of 100 pages a month. Paid plans crawl 100,000 pages a month on SEO ($139/mo) and Starter ($199/mo), 300,000 on Pro+ ($299/mo) and 1 million on Advanced ($549/mo), with up to 20,000 pages per monitored website (100,000 on Advanced). JavaScript rendering starts at Pro+.

SE Ranking Website Audit: crawling inside an SEO suite

Core is $129/mo and includes 250,000 audited pages a month alongside rank tracking, keyword and backlink research, with a 14-day trial and no card. Growth is $279/mo for 2 million pages. It's a suite first, so you won't get Sitebulb's Hint-by-Hint explanations.

JetOctopus and Sitebulb Cloud: when you outgrow a laptop

JetOctopus is a cloud crawler with log analysis, from $349/mo billed annually for 500,000 crawled URLs a month. Sitebulb Cloud starts at $125/mo for 2 users and 50,000 URLs a month, with higher plans for more users and URLs. Both suit large sites or teams sharing crawl data.

Hints vs hands

Sitebulb is excellent at telling you what to fix and in what order. It won't make the fix. Done-for-you is the hands; it costs far more than a Sitebulb licence, so only pick it if the bottleneck is time, not knowledge.

When to pick Sitebulb instead

You or your developer will make the fixes and want clear, prioritised guidance.
You audit client sites and need branded reports.
You want a crawler with a 14-day trial and a low monthly price.
You want one tool for audits that explains itself, rather than a list of raw errors.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best Sitebulb alternative?

Screaming Frog, if you want a desktop crawler for less than Sitebulb Pro each year and a free tier for small sites. Ahrefs Free, if you only audit sites you own and want it free. SE Ranking or Semrush, if you want audits inside an SEO suite. JetOctopus or Sitebulb Cloud, for very large sites or teams.

Is there a free Sitebulb alternative?

Yes, several. Screaming Frog crawls up to 500 URLs free. Ahrefs Free gives verified sites 5,000 crawl credits a month per project. A free Semrush account crawls 100 pages a month. Google Search Console shows indexing and Core Web Vitals reports for your own site. Our free checkers test single pages for redirects, canonicals, headings, links and sitemaps, but they aren't a site crawler.

How much is Sitebulb?

On 7 October 2026, Sitebulb's own price data shows desktop Lite at $18/mo ($180 a year) and Pro at $42/mo ($425 a year). Sitebulb Cloud starts at $125/mo. A Pro trial lasts 14 days with no card.

Is Sitebulb better than Screaming Frog?

They overlap a lot. Sitebulb explains and prioritises more, with Hints; Screaming Frog costs less than Sitebulb Pro per year and is very flexible, with custom extraction and a free tier. See our Screaming Frog vs Sitebulb page.

Can LaunchRanked fix what Sitebulb finds?

Done-for-you includes technical SEO fixes. Autopilot doesn't change site code; it publishes content and rewrites titles and snippets.

Sources we checked

Checked on their own sites on 7 October 2026. Prices and terms change, so check before you buy. Domain ratings are approximate third-party estimates.

Sitebulb's pricing page loads prices with JavaScript, so its figures come from the price data the page itself loads. VAT treatment isn't stated. Sitebulb Cloud's US price is for its smallest plan; its page says plans start from £95 a month.