Comparison
CrawlRadar vs Screaming Frog for AI search
They answer different questions: Screaming Frog is a desktop crawler for technical SEO audits, and it tells you site-wide technical issues: status codes, redirects, duplicate metadata — but not how a specific page reads to a system that wants to quote one paragraph of it. CrawlRadar audits up to 100 URLs from a sitemap in a run too, but scores each one on the citation model — and names the 12 AI crawler tokens your robots.txt allows or blocks.
- 14 checks, weights published
- 12 AI crawlers by name
- $0 to run a scan
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Phase 2 adds the side-by-side: which question each tool answers, what a workflow using both looks like, and where Screaming Frog stays the better tool. Every row has to be checkable against Screaming Frog’s own current documentation before it ships — a comparison table written from memory is the one thing this family must never publish.
This page is noindex until that lands, and it is not in the sitemap.