Rankora vs Screaming Frog SEO Log File Analyser

Rankora is a web-based SEO platform for keyword research, rank tracking, backlink analysis, technical audits, competitor analysis, content optimisation, site crawling and AI visibility tracking. Its keyword tool returns volume, difficulty, CPC, trend direction and related clusters, with suggestions matched to a site's ranking authority. Daily rank checks cover desktop and mobile and flag result features including snippets, local and image packs, and Google AI Overviews. The technical audit runs 36+ checks across areas such as Core Web Vitals, crawlability, schema and mobile usability, then orders fixes by projected impact. The crawler handles up to 100,000 pages per crawl and renders JavaScript. Backlink reports include referring domains, toxic-link flags, new and lost link alerts and competitor gaps, refreshed weekly. AI visibility tracking records brand appearances, citation position and sentiment in generated answers. The free Client plan includes one audit monthly and 50 keywords. Growth costs $29 a month; Scale costs $149 a month.

Screaming Frog SEO Log File Analyser is a desktop application for examining access logs and understanding search engine and AI bot activity. It installs locally and keeps log event data in a local database. It accepts Apache, W3C Extended, and Amazon Elastic Load Balancing logs, and can verify supported bots to identify spoofed requests. Reports cover crawled URLs, crawl frequency, response errors, redirects, bytes downloaded, and response times. Users can match imported data containing a URLs column against log activity, including crawls, directives, or external link data. Log files can be added by drag and drop, with analysis exported to CSV or Excel. The software can process millions of events, though capacity depends on hard drive space. It runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows. The free plan allows 1,000 log event lines and one project. The paid licence costs $139 per year and includes unlimited events and projects, subject to storage capacity. Free technical support is listed for both versions.