Crawlwise vs Google Search Console

What it is

A free service from Google that shows Google Search traffic for your site, reports indexing problems, and lets you request re-indexing of new or updated pages.

Where Google Search Console is better

This section is the reason to read the page. A comparison that only lists our wins is marketing, and you would know it was.

• It is free, and it is the only source of Google’s own click and impression data for your site.
• It shows how Google indexed your pages, which no outside tool can see directly.
• You can request re-indexing and submit sitemaps to Google from it.

Where we differ

• Search Console covers Google only. We fetch your pages as 17 AI crawlers, including GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot, and show which ones get through.
• We audit the page itself, including titles, canonicals, structured data and hreflang, with the evidence for each finding, before Google has crawled it.
• Paid plans connect Search Console and show its data beside the audit. Starter is $4.99 a month.

What cannot be compared

• Google’s own data about your site against an outside audit. Use both: Search Console tells you what Google saw, and an audit tells you why.

Judge it yourself without paying either of us

Run the free ai crawler checker on your own site — no account, no credit, no email. Then audit one page, which the trial credit covers, and read the limits page to see what it will not tell you before you spend anything.