Trilar vs Screaming Frog
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is the best-known desktop crawler: a mature, deeply configurable tool that runs on your own computer, free up to 500 URLs and licensed per user and year.
Where Screaming Frog is strong
- Very low cost per seat and a generous free version
- Mature and frequently updated, with deep configuration: custom extraction, custom JavaScript, URL mapping
- Broad integrations, its own AI prompts with several providers and an MCP server
Where Trilar is different
- Trilar crawls on servers: your computer stays free and schedules run without a machine left on
- Results are shared by link, PDF by e-mail and task export instead of files
- AI search is a topic of its own: whether answers cite you, which section should have been quoted, entities and E-E-A-T
Side by side
| Tool | Trilar | Screaming Frog |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Cloud (browser) | Desktop app (Windows, macOS, Linux) |
| Pricing | Early access; plans by crawled URLs per month plus AI credits | Free up to 500 URLs; £199 per user per year |
| Crawl size | Up to 1 million URLs per crawl | Paid: no URL cap, subject to memory and storage |
| JavaScript rendering | Yes (Chromium), compared with server HTML | Yes (integrated Chromium) |
| Google data | Search Console, GA4, CrUX, PageSpeed Insights | Search Console, GA4, PageSpeed Insights incl. CrUX, link metrics APIs |
| Log files | Via log integration, set up with you | Separate product: Log File Analyser (£99 per year) |
| Monitoring | Scheduled crawls, comparison with the last run, e-mail and webhooks | Scheduled crawls with export; crawl comparison |
| Sharing | Report link without login, PDF by e-mail, Google Sheets, task export, API | Exports, Google Sheets, Looker Studio crawl reports |
| AI search and AI features | AI visibility with "why not cited", citable passages, sub-questions, Wikidata entities, E-E-A-T, brand in AI answers, AI crawler access, llms.txt | AI prompts via OpenAI, Gemini, Ollama, Anthropic; embeddings and semantic similarity; MCP server |
Which one fits?
Choose Screaming Frog if you want maximum configuration on your own machine at a low price per seat.
Choose Trilar if you want crawls in the cloud, shared results and a prioritised plan for Google and AI search.
Sources
Trilar is our product. Facts about other tools come from their vendors' own pages, checked on 7 November 2026. Prices and features change; check the vendor before deciding.
Screaming Frog Ltd is a trademark of its owner. Trilar is not affiliated with it.
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