Screaming Frog SEO Log File Analyser vs SpyFu

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.

SpyFu is a web and API service for SEO, paid-search and competitor research. Its listed tools cover keyword research, rank tracking, site audits, backlink analysis, competitor research and reporting. The service says its live SEO and PPC intelligence refreshes every 15 seconds, with more than 18 years of historical data and indexing across 152 million websites. Users can work through the web service, API, SpyFu GPT or ChatGPT integration, with Google Search Console also listed as an integration. Reports can be white-labeled, automated, exported as PDFs or shared through other exports. Google Ads competitor keyword downloads have no download limits. SpyFu offers a free access option, but states no free-tier limits. Paid plans include Basic at $39 a month billed monthly or $29 a month billed annually; Pro + AI is $119 a month after its first month, or $89 a month annually; Team / Agency is 249.00 USD monthly or 187.00 USD annually.