Screaming Frog SEO Log File Analyser vs SerpBear

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.

SerpBear is an open-source app for tracking Google keyword positions across unlimited domains and keywords. Users can configure Basic, Custom or Smart scraping strategies and schedule email alerts for position changes daily, weekly or monthly. Its Google Search Console integration displays visits, impressions, average position, ranking keywords, and recent top keyword, country and page statistics. Users can export domain keywords and their data as CSV files. A built-in API can retrieve keyword and domain data, refresh positions, run scrapes and send notification emails with a user-set API key. Scraping backends include services such as ScrapingRobot, Serply, SerpApi, SearchApi, ValueSerp, Serper, ScrapingAnt and CrazySerp, or user-provided proxy IPs. SerpBear itself is free, but external scraping providers may impose usage limits or charges; the documentation lists ScrapingRobot with 5,000 free searches per month. Deployment options include Node.js or Docker on a server, local use and hosted deployment guides. The app can be added to a mobile device as a PWA, and the repository lists the MIT license.