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AcuityScan vs Screaming Frog

Screaming Frog crawls every URL on a site for SEO. AcuityScan audits a domain across eight categories in one hosted scan.

Screaming Frog's SEO Spider is a desktop app that crawls an entire site, hundreds or thousands of URLs, for technical SEO: broken links, redirects, duplicate titles, and more. For site-wide SEO crawling at scale, it's a classic. AcuityScan is different: a hosted, single-domain audit across eight categories, including SEO, but also email, security, performance, accessibility, and privacy, with one health score and plain-English fixes.

AcuityScan vs Screaming Frog, side by side

SEO site crawler.

	AcuityScan	Screaming Frog
Primary focus	Full website audit	Site-wide SEO crawl
Categories covered	8	Technical SEO
Crawls every URL on a site	Single-domain audit	Yes (its specialty)
Technical SEO checks	Yes	Yes (deep crawl)
Email auth + DNS + SSL	Yes	No
Performance + accessibility	Yes	Via integrations
Privacy / tracker audit	Yes	No
Hosted (no install)	Yes	Desktop app
Unified 0-100 health score	Yes	Crawl data
Starting paid tier	$29/mo	Annual license (see site)
Plain-English fix for every issue	Yes	No
Native Claude / MCP integration	Yes	No

Comparison based on Screaming Frog's publicly listed features and pricing as of 2026. Competitor capabilities change, so if anything here is outdated, let us know.

Where AcuityScan goes further

Seven categories beyond SEO: email, DNS, SSL, performance, accessibility, privacy, and mobile.
A hosted scan with a shareable report, no desktop app to install or configure.
One health score and plain-English fixes for non-SEO-specialists.
Email authentication and security checks a crawler doesn't perform.

When Screaming Frog is the better choice

We would rather you pick the right tool than the wrong one. Screaming Frog is the better fit when:

You need to crawl an entire site, every URL, for technical SEO at scale.
You want deep control over a configurable desktop crawler and large exports.
Site-wide SEO is your specialty and a single-page audit isn't enough.

Questions

Does AcuityScan crawl my whole site like Screaming Frog?

No. Screaming Frog's specialty is crawling every URL for SEO. AcuityScan audits a domain across eight categories and offers a multi-page scan for SEO and accessibility, but it isn't a full-site crawler.

Which should I use?

For deep, site-wide SEO crawling, Screaming Frog. For a fast, broad health audit covering security, email, performance, and accessibility too, AcuityScan. They solve different problems.

Does AcuityScan check technical SEO?

Yes, titles, meta, headings, canonical, robots, sitemap, schema, and more, with plain-English fixes, as one of its eight categories.

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Screaming Frog is a trademark of its respective owner. AcuityScan is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Screaming Frog. This comparison reflects publicly available information as of 2026 and may change, verify current features and pricing on each provider's own site.