Simple, One-Time Pricing
Pay once, use forever. No subscriptions, no hidden fees, no account needed.
You need Pro if…
- ✓ Your websites have more than 200 pages
- ✓ You need to start crawls from any URL (deep-start)
- ✓ You need URL list or sitemap scan modes
- ✓ You audit client websites professionally (commercial license)
Free
$0
forever · up to 200 pages
- Crawl up to 200 pages
- All SEO on-page analysis
- All link, image & security analysis
- Structured data, OG, hreflang
- JS rendering, proxy, custom extraction
- All export formats (CSV, JSON, HTML, XML)
- Schedule, compare & report modes
- GUI + TUI + CLI
- Unlimited pages
- Start from any URL (deep-start)
- URL list & sitemap crawl modes
- Personal use only
Recommended
Pro
$99
one-time payment · unlimited pages
- Unlimited pages per crawl
- Start from any URL (deep-start)
- All crawl modes: website, URL list, sitemap
- Everything in Free, plus:
- Schedule, compare & report modes
- All SEO, security & extraction features
- All export formats & report types
- GUI + TUI + CLI
- Priority email support
- Commercial use included
✓ 14-day full refund — no questions asked
🔒 Secure payment via Stripe
Full Feature Comparison
See exactly what's included in each plan.
| Feature | Free | Pro ($99) |
|---|---|---|
| Crawling | ||
| Maximum pages per crawl | 200 | Unlimited |
| Start from homepage (root domain) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Start from any URL (deep-start) | — | ✓ |
| Website crawl mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| URL list crawl mode (.txt file) | — | ✓ |
| XML sitemap crawl mode | — | ✓ |
| Scheduled recurring crawls | ✓ | ✓ |
| Compare two crawls (diff) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Generate reports from saved data | ✓ | ✓ |
| SEO On-Page | ||
| Title — presence, length, duplicates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Meta description — presence, length, duplicates | ✓ | ✓ |
| Headings H1–H6 — hierarchy, multiple H1 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Canonical — self-canonical, cross-domain | ✓ | ✓ |
| Meta robots / X-Robots-Tag | ✓ | ✓ |
| Word count | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pagination (rel=next / rel=prev) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Breadcrumbs detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Links | ||
| Internal links — URL, anchor, nofollow | ✓ | ✓ |
| Link position on page (nav/header/footer/main/aside/article) | ✓ | ✓ |
| External links — URL, anchor, nofollow | ✓ | ✓ |
| External link verification (--check-external-links) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Redirect chain detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Images | ||
| Missing alt text detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Alt text length check (>125 characters) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Image format detection (jpg/png/webp/gif/svg) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lazy loading detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Data | ||
| JSON-LD, Microdata, RDFa detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Schema.org type identification | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google validation (required/recommended properties) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Social & Hreflang | ||
| Open Graph (og:title, og:description, og:image, og:type, og:url) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Twitter Card (card type, title, description, image) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hreflang — alternative language versions | ✓ | ✓ |
| Security | ||
| SSL/TLS certificate analysis (issuer, expiry, protocol) | ✓ | ✓ |
| HSTS detection | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mixed content detection (HTTP on HTTPS) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cookie security (Secure / HttpOnly) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Exposed files scanning (.env, .sql, .git, .log, .backup) | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSRF protection (private IP blocking) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Advanced Crawling | ||
| JavaScript rendering (Playwright / headless Chromium) | ✓ | ✓ |
| CSS/JS/font resource scanning (--crawl-resources) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Proxy (HTTP / SOCKS5) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Basic Auth (user:password) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom cookies, headers, User-Agent | ✓ | ✓ |
| Robots.txt respect, URL exclusion, stay-in-path | ✓ | ✓ |
| SSL verification toggle | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data Extraction | ||
| XPath extraction (named expressions) | ✓ | ✓ |
| CSS selector extraction | ✓ | ✓ |
| Regex extraction | ✓ | ✓ |
| HTML content search (--search) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reports & Exports | ||
| CSV main report (45+ columns + extraction columns) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Specialized CSVs (internal links, external links, images, inlinks, resources, redirects, canonicals, hreflang, exposed files) | ✓ | ✓ |
| JSON export (full serialization) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Interactive HTML Dashboard (filters, sortable tables) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Crawl Map HTML (site structure visualization) | ✓ | ✓ |
| XML Sitemap generation | ✓ | ✓ |
| Save crawl to JSON (reload / compare) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Interfaces | ||
| CLI (terminal) | ✓ | ✓ |
| GUI (PySide6, cross-platform) | ✓ | ✓ |
| TUI (Textual, terminal with UI) | ✓ | ✓ |
| 13 data tabs with filters, sorting, pagination | ✓ | ✓ |
| Page detail panel & SEO Help | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export & compare dialogs | ✓ | ✓ |
| Support & License | ||
| Email support | Community | Priority |
| License type | Personal | Commercial |
🔒 Secure payment via Stripe
⏱ 14-day money-back guarantee
⚡ No subscription
14-Day Money-Back Guarantee. We built SilkCrawl because existing tools were either overpriced subscriptions or lacked the depth we needed for real audits. We're confident it delivers — but we also know that confidence means nothing until you've tested it on your own sites.
That's why every Pro license comes with a straightforward 14-day refund policy. Buy it, run it against your toughest crawl, dig into the reports. If SilkCrawl doesn't earn its place in your workflow, email [email protected] within 14 days and we'll refund you in full. No hoops, no forms, no "tell us why" questionnaire. One email, full refund, same payment method.
We'd rather have you try it risk-free than wonder "what if." Most people who test it, keep it.
That's why every Pro license comes with a straightforward 14-day refund policy. Buy it, run it against your toughest crawl, dig into the reports. If SilkCrawl doesn't earn its place in your workflow, email [email protected] within 14 days and we'll refund you in full. No hoops, no forms, no "tell us why" questionnaire. One email, full refund, same payment method.
We'd rather have you try it risk-free than wonder "what if." Most people who test it, keep it.
How Much Will You Save?
One-time payment vs. annual subscriptions — the math is simple.
Typical SEO Spider A
~$259/year × 3
$777
Typical SEO Spider B
~$324/year × 3
$972
SilkCrawl Pro
one-time
$99
Save $600+ over 3 years vs. subscription-based SEO spiders
Frequently Asked Questions
No. The Pro license is a one-time payment of $99. You pay once and use SilkCrawl forever. All updates within version 1.x are included free of charge.
Yes. The Free version includes the complete feature set — every analysis, every report type, every export format — for up to 200 pages. Download it and use it as long as you like — no time limit, no account required.
Free includes every feature — all SEO analysis, security checks, custom extraction, all report types, JS rendering, and more. The only differences are scale: Free crawls up to 200 pages starting from your homepage using website crawl mode. Pro removes the page limit, lets you start from any URL (deep-start), and adds URL list and sitemap crawl modes. Pro also includes a commercial license and priority email support.
SilkCrawl works on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Download the version for your operating system from the Download page.
Yes. The Pro license includes commercial use, so you can use it for agency work, client audits, and consulting projects.
You get a full refund. No hoops, no forms — one email to [email protected] within 14 days and we'll refund you via the same payment method. We built SilkCrawl for our own SEO workflows first, so we're confident it delivers. But if it's not the right fit for your stack, we'd rather give your money back than have an unhappy user.
After purchase, your license key is delivered to your email within 24 hours. Open SilkCrawl, go to Settings, and paste your key to unlock all Pro features instantly.