Crawlr vs EdgeComet Log Analyzer

Crawlr is a website crawler and technical SEO audit tool that finds technical issues, crawl inefficiencies and site architecture problems. It discovers URLs through internal links, sitemaps, canonical links and JavaScript. Crawl settings include robots.txt compliance, rate limiting, inclusion and exclusion rules, and depth controls. Its analysis covers response codes, indexability, metadata, headings, word counts, and internal and external links. Results can be explored through interactive graphs, directory trees, 3D site views and content-cluster visualizations. Crawls can run daily, weekly or on custom schedules, with email notifications on completion. The API can start crawls, check their status, return structured JSON, access historical data and send webhook events. The Free plan is free and includes 500 tokens monthly, one concurrent crawl, CSV and JSON exports, and 15-day history. Paid plans start at $8/mo (annual). The Starter plan lists 5,000 tokens monthly, five concurrent crawls and a 5,000-page maximum per crawl. Unauthenticated sandbox crawls are limited to 25 pages.

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.