Keyword Tool vs Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Keyword Tool generates long-tail keyword suggestions from autocomplete when given a seed term. It supports keyword and competitor research across 16 platforms, including Google, YouTube, Bing, Amazon, TikTok, Reddit, Pinterest and Google Trends. The free tool works without an account and can return 750+ Google autocomplete keywords. Paid plans add search volume, cost per click, competition scores, device breakdown and historical trends; they also support search-volume enrichment for up to 1,000 keywords per request, with daily capacity depending on the plan. Access includes the web interface, API and MCP, and Claude, Cursor and ChatGPT are named as compatible assistants. Google coverage includes 190+ countries, 68,000+ locations and 50+ languages. The site says Google and Bing metrics come from planner ecosystems, while volumes for other platforms are modeled estimates based on clickstream signals. Web, API and MCP share a daily request pool, and available MCP tools can vary by endpoint, plan and rollout status. Paid plans start at $68 a month. There is no free trial; the pricing FAQ lists a 30-day money-back guarantee for paid plans.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider crawls websites to audit more than 300 SEO issues and support improvements to search performance and user experience. It finds broken links and server errors, checks redirects, and flags page titles and meta descriptions that are missing, duplicated, or too long. For JavaScript-heavy sites, it can render pages with its integrated Chromium WRS, including sites using Angular, React, and Vue.js. Data extraction supports CSS Path, XPath, regular expressions, and custom JavaScript. The crawler connects to Google Analytics, Search Console, and PageSpeed Insights APIs, with link-metrics integrations for Majestic, Ahrefs, and Moz. Crawls can be scheduled, automated from the command line, exported to destinations such as Google Sheets, and compared across runs or between staging and production. The free version costs nothing and allows 500 URLs per crawl; saving crawls, configuration, and advanced features are restricted. The paid version costs $279 a year per licence, with unlimited crawl size subject to allocated memory and storage. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.