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crawlwise vs Semrush Site Audit
An enterprise SEO suite with an audit attached to a very large keyword database.
What it is
A broad marketing platform: keyword research, PPC intelligence, position tracking, content tooling, listing management and reporting, with a crawler alongside it.
Where Semrush Site Audit 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.
- Their keyword database is much larger than what we buy per query, and their trend and seasonality data has years behind it.
- Position tracking runs on a schedule across many devices and locations with a stable history and straightforward reporting.
- PPC, competitor ad research and the content template have no equivalent here.
- It is built for a team: seats, roles, shared projects and an agency-grade reporting suite.
Where we differ
- Nothing here is a passthrough with a markup you cannot see. Every bought call is charged at what it cost us, quoted before it runs, and settled at the real figure.
- First-party checks — AI crawler access, the answer-clarity reading, the deterministic action list — cost near nothing to run and are the part no vendor sells.
- The audit explains itself. Every action cites the check that produced it, so you can disagree with a finding without having to trust the prose.
- There is a free tier that is genuinely usable rather than a demo, and the free tools never ask for an account.
What cannot be compared
- Whole-suite coverage against a focused audit. If you need PPC and social, they have it and we do not.
Judge it yourself without paying either of us
Run the free search preview 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.