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Spronta vs the alternatives
Desktop crawlers audit your site when you run them. Spronta watches it every day — scheduled and deploy-triggered crawls, an issue inbox with alerts, and AI-search readiness on every crawl.
| Feature | Spronta | Screaming Frog | Sitebulb |
|---|---|---|---|
| Runs in the cloud — nothing to install | ✓ | ✕ | Cloud add-on |
| Scheduled crawls | Hourly to monthly | Desktop scheduler | Cloud add-on |
| Crawl on every deploy | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Durable issue inbox (priority, lifecycle, assignees) | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Regression alerts (email, Slack, Discord) | ✓ | ✕ | Limited |
| AI-search (GEO) audit | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Search Console data on the crawl | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| JavaScript rendering | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MCP for AI agents | Hosted endpoint | ✕ | Coming soon |
| Plain-English fix for every issue | ✓ | ✕ | Hints |
| Free tier | 5,000 credits / mo | 500 URLs / crawl | Trial only |
| Team pricing | By pages — unlimited seats | Per user, £259/yr | Per user, from £13.50/mo |
| Open-source engine (MIT) | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
Translation: the desktop tools are great at the audit you run by hand. Spronta is the only one built around monitoring — issues, alerts and deploy checks that keep running after you close the laptop — and the only one that grades AI-search readiness. (The engine underneath is open source, too.)
The full breakdown
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