
Key takeaways
- Keep Seobility where it is genuinely stronger.
- Run the same URL in both tools and keep findings you can verify.
- Their AI-bot check reads robots.txt. Ours also fetches the page as each crawler, so a firewall or CDN rule that blocks GPTBot while robots.txt allows it shows up here and not there.
- Fix one thing, check it again, and save the report if you want a memory.
You might already live in Seobility. That is a good sign. It means you care enough about the site to use a serious tool. This guide is here so you can keep that tool and still know, calmly, where Crawlwise fits beside it. A hosted platform that crawls your projects on a schedule and adds rank tracking, backlink monitoring, uptime checks and a keyword research tool, with a free Basic plan and paid plans from €59.90 a month.
Give Seobility the credit it has earned
A comparison that only praises us is marketing, and you would feel it by the second paragraph. Here is where Seobility is the stronger product, in plain language:
- Their crawls are much bigger. Premium checks 25,000 pages per crawl and Agency 100,000; our largest plan stops at 10,000.
- They can execute JavaScript during a crawl. We read the server HTML only, so a client-rendered page looks thin to us and may not to them.
- Daily rank tracking for the first two Google pages, weekly backlink monitoring, uptime checks and duplicate-content analysis come in the same subscription. That breadth is real and we do not match it.
- Crawls can restart automatically on an interval you set, with unlimited re-crawls and an email after each one.
- Their free plan lasts indefinitely and crawls 100 pages of one project with 10 tracked keywords. Our free tier has no site crawl at all.
If that list describes your actual week, stay. You will be happier, and you will do better work. We would rather you trust the next section because this one was fair.
Keep the tool that matches the job. Seobility has jobs it wins. Crawlwise has a different one, and it is a good one.
Adnan Arodiya, Crawlwise
Where a Crawlwise sitting feels different
Our job is narrower, and we like it that way. You paste a URL. We show the evidence. We say when a check could not run. And we fetch the page as the answer-engine crawlers, so you know whether they can read it.
- Their AI-bot check reads robots.txt. Ours also fetches the page as each crawler, so a firewall or CDN rule that blocks GPTBot while robots.txt allows it shows up here and not there.
- You pay for what you run. Starter is $4.99 a month and every credit is quoted before it is spent, where their first paid plan is €59.90.
- Every finding cites the check that produced it, and anything we could not measure is marked as not measured rather than counted for or against you.
That is the whole invitation. You can try the free tools with no account, then run a full audit when you want the checks together. A single page is about 1.25 credits, quoted before you click.
What we will not pretend
- An all-in-one subscription with rank tracking and a backlink index against a focused audit that buys data per query. If you want one dashboard for everything, that is their offer, not ours.
Hold both products to that standard. If a page implies we replace their index, their desktop crawl, or their keyword history, it is wrong. Send people here instead.
A kind way to decide this week
Pick the URL a customer actually uses. Run the overlapping check in Seobility if you already have it open, and run the same URL through a Crawlwise tool or a full audit. Put the two results side by side. Keep every finding you can verify. Discard the rest. You will leave with a shorter list and a better mood, which is the point of a good afternoon.
Then fix one thing on staging and check it again. The second run is how you know the fix landed. Save the Crawlwise report if you want next month to remember what you did. History is a small kindness you can give your future self.
What a plan actually costs
The free tools stay free. You can open them, run them, and leave without an account. A plan is for the moment you want the report saved, a few sites watched, or the same checks from the API. The price on this table is the price at checkout. A yearly plan is ten months of the monthly price, so two months are on us.
| Plan | Monthly | Credits | A good fit when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $4.99 | 10 | You look after one site and check it now and then |
| Pro | $14.99 | 40 | A few sites, plus the API and a handful of watched URLs |
| Studio | $49.99 | 150 | Client work that would burn through Pro mid-month |
| Agency | $99.99 | 400 | Many locations, reported under your own name |
A single-page audit is about 1.25 credits, and that includes the live probe of answer-engine crawlers. You see the estimate before anything runs. If a hold is not used, it comes back to your balance. Extra credits, when you already subscribe, are $9.99 for 20.
You can root for both
Seobility can stay in your toolkit. Crawlwise can sit beside it for the page-level questions, the crawler probe, and a price you can see. You do not have to pick a side to do good work. Open the URL, read the evidence, and ship the fix you can explain. That is a win, and you are close to it.
Crawlwise and Seobility
Crawlwise difference 1
- Crawlwise
- Their AI-bot check reads robots.txt. Ours also fetches the page as each crawler, so a firewall or CDN rule that blocks GPTBot while robots.txt allows it shows up here and not there.
- Seobility
- Not the focus of that product
Crawlwise difference 2
- Crawlwise
- You pay for what you run. Starter is $4.99 a month and every credit is quoted before it is spent, where their first paid plan is €59.90.
- Seobility
- Not the focus of that product
Crawlwise difference 3
- Crawlwise
- Every finding cites the check that produced it, and anything we could not measure is marked as not measured rather than counted for or against you.
- Seobility
- Not the focus of that product
Seobility edge 1
- Crawlwise
- Not what we built
- Seobility
- Their crawls are much bigger. Premium checks 25,000 pages per crawl and Agency 100,000; our largest plan stops at 10,000.
Seobility edge 2
- Crawlwise
- Not what we built
- Seobility
- They can execute JavaScript during a crawl. We read the server HTML only, so a client-rendered page looks thin to us and may not to them.
Seobility edge 3
- Crawlwise
- Not what we built
- Seobility
- Daily rank tracking for the first two Google pages, weekly backlink monitoring, uptime checks and duplicate-content analysis come in the same subscription. That breadth is real and we do not match it.
Try it on your URL
Run the checks on your live site
Free tools answer one question. A full audit scores the page, tests answer-engine crawlers, and saves to history on a plan.
- Live crawler probes
- Core Web Vitals
- One free full audit
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Meet the author

Adnan Arodiya
Crawlwise
Writes about what Crawlwise actually measures: on-page evidence, crawler access, and performance signals — with the limits stated up front.


