Majestic vs Screaming Frog SEO Spider
No clear leader: Screaming Frog SEO Spider (55.8) and Majestic (51.3) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for seo tools. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Majestic
A platform that analyzes backlinks and provides link quality metrics to support SEO strategy development and competitive market research.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Desktop software that crawls websites to identify over 300 SEO issues and opportunities. Helps analyze and improve both technical SEO performance and user experience, with integration capabilities for Google Analytics and Search Console.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Majestic
From £39.99/month. Free tier available. 7-day money-back guarantee on Lite and Pro plans.
- Lite£39.99/month or £399.90/year
- Fresh Index
- Site Explorer
- N-grams
- Near Links
- Link Graph
- +13 more
- Pro£79.99/month or £799.90/year
- Everything in Lite
- Historic Index
- Index Merger
- Raw Data Exports
- Custom Reports
- +10 more
- Full API£319.99/month
- Everything in Pro
- Full API access
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Free tier (500 URLs) or £199/year for unlimited crawls and advanced features
- FreeFree
- Crawl up to 500 URLs
- Identify SEO issues
- Find broken links
- Audit redirects
- Analyze page titles and metadata
- +4 more
- Paid License£199 per year
- Unlimited URL crawls
- All free features
- Advanced features
- Extract data with XPath and CSS selectors
- Crawl JavaScript-rendered websites
- +2 more
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
- Google Search Console
Majestic
- OpenApps API
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
- Google Analytics
- PageSpeed Insights
Majestic or Screaming Frog SEO Spider: which one depends on you
A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.
Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.