Rank Math vs Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Every Rank Math Price You See Is a First-Year Price
Screaming Frog's Free Version Stops at 500 URLs — That Is the Entire Decision
The short answer
- Entry price
- Rank Math is priced in € and Screaming Frog SEO Spider in £ (€7.99/month against £199/year). We do not convert between them, because the rate on the day you read this is not the rate we would be quoting.
- Our rating
- 4.4/5 against 4.5/5. That gap is inside our own margin, so treat these as rated level and decide on the specifics below rather than on the score.
- Against the rest of the category
- Of the 6 seo content tools we have reviewed that publish a starting price, Rank Math is the 1st cheapest to start and Screaming Frog SEO Spider the 6th.
Rank Math
from €7.99/monthPRO is €7.99 a month and renews at €8.99. Business is €24.99 and renews at €27.99. Agency is €54.99 and renews at €64.99. The renewal figures are printed on the pricing page under each plan, so nothing is hidden — but the headline number is the one you pay least often.
What works
- ✓ The renewal price is printed openly on the pricing page rather than buried in terms
- ✓ PRO covers unlimited personal websites, not a site count
- ✓ The free version includes Search Console integration and 18 pre-defined schema types
- ✓ Tracked keyword allowances are large: 500 on PRO, 10,000 on Business, 50,000 on Agency
What does not
- ✗ Every advertised price is a discounted first-year rate that rises on renewal
- ✗ Agency renews €120 a year higher than its advertised price
- ✗ Prices are quoted in euros, so the dollar cost moves with the exchange rate
- ✗ Content AI arrives as a 15-day trial, not an included allowance
Screaming Frog SEO Spider
from £199/yearThere is a free version and a £199-per-year version, and the only difference that decides it for most people is the 500-URL crawl cap. Licences are per person, not per company — two people need two licences — and they expire after twelve months.
What works
- ✓ The free version is a real tool, not a demo — it crawls 500 URLs with no time limit
- ✓ One flat £199 per year, with no usage metering or credit system
- ✓ Bulk licences drop to £169 each at 20 or more
- ✓ Paid crawling has no URL ceiling at all
What does not
- ✗ Licences are per user — two people require two individual licences
- ✗ The licence lasts one year and then must be renewed to keep working
- ✗ 500 URLs is a small site, and most real sites exceed it immediately
- ✗ 'Unlimited' crawling is explicitly dependent on your own memory and storage
Who should pick which
Pick Rank Math if this is the thing that matters most to you:
The renewal price is printed openly on the pricing page rather than buried in terms.
What most often rules it out: Every advertised price is a discounted first-year rate that rises on renewal.
Pick Screaming Frog SEO Spider if this is the thing that matters most to you:
The free version is a real tool, not a demo — it crawls 500 URLs with no time limit.
What most often rules it out: Licences are per user — two people require two individual licences.
Figures come from our review of each product, checked against the vendor's own pricing page. We do not convert currencies or rank prices quoted on different billing periods — where that applies it is said above, not quietly resolved.
A third option, and what it is not
Bonfire Terminal is an AI agent that runs as a desktop app on your own machine — no cloud, nothing you type leaves your computer. It does not do what Rank Math or Screaming Frog SEO Spider do, and we will not pretend it does. If either is doing its job for you, keep it.
What the $27 actually gets you→The way in is the AI Marketers Club — $27 one-time, including 21 days of access. Keeping it after that is a separate purchase; the vendor's FAQ states Bonfire Terminal starts at $5,000. We earn a commission at no extra cost to you, which is why both tools' drawbacks are printed in full above and the $5,000 is here rather than left for you to find later.