FreeCrawl
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Plans and prices
From FreeCrawl's own pricing page, checked 21 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Unlimited URLs · free forever |
| FreeCrawl | Free | Unlimited URLs · Windows, macOS, Linux · Free forever; no paid tier |
The facts
Each one read from FreeCrawl's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- AI and MCP
- The site says its MCP server lets Claude Code and other MCP-compatible clients drive crawls, query results, and run reports.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Audience
- The site presents FreeCrawl for SEO agencies, e-commerce SEO teams, developers and technical SEO practitioners, and solo consultants.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Crawl modes
- The crawler supports Spider, List, SERP, and Compare modes, with up to 50 parallel workers.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Encryption
- Optional AES-256-GCM encrypted project snapshots are available, and integration credentials are stored through the operating system credential store.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Exports and automation
- The site lists XLSX, CSV, JSON, and XML exports, a headless CLI, and GitHub Actions and GitLab CI templates.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Extraction
- It supports custom CSS and regex extraction, plus literal and regex searches.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Import limitation
- URL lists from CSV, sitemap.xml, or a Google Search Console export can be used in List mode, but importing Screaming Frog .seospider project files is unsupported.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Listed integrations include Google Search Console, GA4, Google Sheets, BigQuery, PageSpeed Insights, Ahrefs, Moz, Semrush, Majestic, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Ollama.checked 8 Oct 2026
- JavaScript rendering
- JavaScript rendering uses bundled Chromium via Playwright and supports screenshots, LCP candidate detection, and mobile usability audits.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Local storage and privacy
- Crawl data is stored in a SQLite project file on the user's machine; the site says crawls are not uploaded and the app has no telemetry or sign-in.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Product
- FreeCrawl is an open-source desktop SEO crawler that runs locally and offers unlimited URL crawling.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Scale limit
- The site says 1,000,000+ URLs are comfortable on a modern laptop and identifies disk space and memory as the hard limits.checked 8 Oct 2026
- SEO checks
- The site says FreeCrawl includes 200+ checks across 14 categories, including indexability, mobile, accessibility, performance, security, and structured data.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Site audit
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
- Support
- The site directs users to GitHub Issues for bugs and feature requests and says private email support replies within 48 hours.checked 8 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 21 Sep 2026
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