Capability

Metaspry

Screaming Frog

One-click audit of the page you're on, in the browser

✓

- (no browser extension)

Full-site crawl at scale (thousands of URLs)

✓

Bulk URL audit (up to 200 URLs, sitemap import, CSV)

Pro

✓

Rendered social previews next to a 0-100 score (7 platforms)

✓

AI-readiness (AEO) checks

Pro

Cloud-synced history + shareable snapshot link

Pro

Daily drift monitoring with change flags

Pro

Shared team workspaces with roles

Team

Custom extraction (XPath / regex) + log-file analysis

✓

Runs on

Browser + cloud web app

Desktop (Mac / Win / Linux)

Start free, no account required

Yes (extension)

Free tier capped; full version paid

Price

Free / Pro $19/mo ($190/yr) / Team $45/mo

~$279/yr per seat

When to use Screaming Frog

Full-site technical SEO crawls across thousands of URLs.
Custom extraction (XPath / regex) at scale.
Log-file analysis paired with the crawler.
Power-user desktop workflows: scheduling, exports, and analytics integrations.

When to use Metaspry

You want to audit the page you're on right now, in the browser, without opening a desktop app.
You want a 0-100 score shown next to rendered social previews for the seven major platforms.
You care about AI-readiness (AEO) as crawlers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot become traffic sources - usually an enterprise-only feature elsewhere.
You want cloud history and a shareable snapshot link to send to a client or drop in Slack.
You want daily drift monitoring that flags when the URLs you care about change.
You'd rather start at $0 and scale to $19/mo than buy a ~$279/yr per-seat license up front.

Do you need both?

Sometimes. Screaming Frog handles the deep full-site crawl; Metaspry covers the daily browser-side reviews, monitoring, and sharing. They're complementary, not interchangeable. For dedicated change-detection, note that enterprise monitoring rivals like SEORadar and Conductor run $200-800+/mo - Metaspry brings daily drift monitoring down to a solo-friendly price.