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Screaming Frog vs JetOctopus

Both tools are popular for combining crawl data with server logs. Screaming Frog does it with two desktop apps: the SEO Spider (£199/yr) and the Log File Analyser (£99/yr, $139 on the US page). JetOctopus does it in the cloud. At the time of writing (September 2026), its Growth plan is $349/mo billed annually ($459 quarterly) for 500,000 crawled URLs and 2 million log lines a month.

JetOctopus's pitch is scale without a local machine: it claims 1M+ pages a day and bot tracking for Googlebot, GPTBot and 40+ others. Screaming Frog's is price and control.

Screaming Frog vs JetOctopus side by side

From each product’s own site or our research, at the time of writing (September 2026). Prices and terms change, so check before you decide.

Comparison of Screaming Frog and JetOctopus
Feature	Screaming Frog	JetOctopus
Type	Desktop apps (Spider + Log File Analyser)	Cloud platform
Price	£199/yr + £99/yr per user	Growth $349/mo, Pro $809/mo, Ultra $1,559/mo (annual)
Crawl volume	Limited by your machine	500K / 2M / 5M URLs a month
Log analysis	Log File Analyser (1,000 lines free)	2M / 8M / 25M log lines a month
Search Console data	API integration (paid)	3 / 10 / 20 GSC and GA4 properties
Seats	Per-user licences	Unlimited projects and seats
Trial	Free versions with limits	7 days, up to 10,000 URLs, no card

Which should you pick?

Pick Screaming Frog if…

You want the lowest cost and don't mind running crawls locally.
Your log files are manageable on a desktop.
You need flexible one-off investigations.

Screaming Frog’s site · LaunchRanked vs Screaming Frog

Pick JetOctopus if…

Your site is too big to crawl comfortably on a laptop.
You want crawls, logs and Search Console joined up in one place.
Several people need access without buying per-user licences.

JetOctopus’s site

Where LaunchRanked fits

Disclosure: LaunchRanked is our product. Where we list it, we say so, and we place it under the use case it fits rather than at the top by default. Everything else here is from the vendors’ own sites or our research, and we say where they’re better.

We don't sell a crawler. Both tools find technical issues; neither fixes them. Log analysis is also a good way to see whether AI crawlers visit you. Our free AI crawler checker reads your robots.txt rules for them.

If the audit keeps finding problems nobody has time to fix, Done-for-you (from $999/mo) includes technical SEO by hand. Autopilot ($49/mo, early access) handles content and Search Console title rewrites, not site code.

Frequently asked questions

How much is JetOctopus?

At the time of writing (September 2026), JetOctopus lists Growth at $349/mo, Pro at $809/mo and Ultra at $1,559/mo on annual billing (€299, €699 and €1,359), with higher quarterly rates.

Is Screaming Frog's Log File Analyser free?

There's a free version limited to 1,000 log lines and one project. The paid licence is £99 a year.

Why analyse server logs for SEO?

Logs show what search and AI bots actually requested, which pages they ignore, and where they waste crawl budget on errors or redirects.

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.