CrawlGenius Log Analyzer vs EdgeComet Log Analyzer

CrawlGenius Log Analyzer analyzes server logs to show how search engines and AI crawlers interact with a website. Its SEO analysis identifies crawl budget waste, HTTP errors, orphan pages, redirect and canonical issues, and fake bots. AI and LLM crawlers are tracked separately from Googlebot, with comparisons between AI and SEO crawling. Dashboards cover crawl coverage, freshness, time to first visit, new URLs, and URLs crawled but never clicked.

Logs can be supplied through a WordPress plugin, server agent, file upload, Amazon S3, or FTP/sFTP deposit; FTP/sFTP is unavailable on the Free plan. Paid plans include a REST API and MCP server. The pricing page says AI crawlers are checked against more than 3,500 official IP ranges and spoofed hits rejected at ingestion. The company says data is hosted in the EU, processed under GDPR, and visitor IPs are truncated before storage; it does not currently hold SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification. The web-based product is aimed at SEO professionals. The Free plan is free and covers 10,000 log lines monthly, one project, and a seven-day visible window. Starter is €49 a month and Agency is €149 a month, excluding VAT. A guided 30-day trial uses real customer logs and requires no credit card or commitment.

EdgeComet Log Analyzer records search-engine and AI-crawler requests together with the page state each bot received, helping teams examine crawling and indexing. It covers bots such as Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Perplexity. For each request, it can show the title, meta description, canonical, robots directives, hreflang, and structured data in the HTML served to the bot. Requests are classified as valuable, questionable, or wasted, with causes such as errors, redirects, blocked URLs, non-canonical pages, and render errors. Bot identities are checked against published IP ranges, with 35 real identities supported for verification. Collection requires routing bot requests through EdgeComet via a CDN or proxy; it does not import or parse log files. Supported routing platforms include Cloudflare Workers, Fastly VCL, AWS CloudFront Lambda@Edge, and nginx. The product also offers an HTTP API, an MCP server, and an Apache-2.0 open-source rendering and caching core that can be self-hosted. Professional costs $99 a month. There is no free plan; a 14-day trial is listed.