Silotree vs Screaming Frog
Not really competitors. One is the best crawler there is; the other is a tool for doing something about what a crawl found.
What Silotree is for: more readers from posts you already wrote — in about ten minutes a week.
- Free audit, no account
- First 10 links written free
- 30-day money-back guarantee
One difference matters more than the rest of the table.
How Screaming Frog works
Screaming Frog crawls anything and measures more than any other tool: status codes, depth, redirects, canonicals, hreflang, response times, and every link on the site. For an audit, nothing here replaces it and this page is not trying to.
How Silotree works
Silotree crawls a narrower set of things and then does the part a crawler cannot: decides which link is worth adding, writes it into the post with your approval, and reports whether it worked using Search Console. A spreadsheet of two thousand rows is a finding; this is the afternoon after it.
Silotree and Screaming Frog, row by row
Shaded rows are where Screaming Frog is stronger.
| What it does | Screaming Frog | Silotree |
|---|---|---|
| Depth of technical crawl | ExhaustiveStronger | Focused on linking |
| JavaScript rendering | YesStronger | No |
| Log file analysis | Yes, via its separate Log File AnalyserStronger | No |
| Separates links in your writing from menu links | Automatic link-position column, tuned per site | Automatic, and used in every count |
| Decides which link to add | No | Yes, ranked |
| Writes the fix into WordPress | No | Yes, reversibly |
| Search Console joined to structure | Built-in API connection (paid), not used for ranking | Yes, in the ranking |
| Reports decay over time | No | Yes |
| Runs on a schedule without a desktop | Paid licence, on a machine you run | Yes |
| Price for occasional use | Free up to 500 URLs; annual licence beyondStronger | Monthly |
If any of these describe you, we would rather say so than take your money.
You are doing a technical audit
Redirect chains, canonicals, hreflang, response codes, JavaScript rendering, and log files with its separate Log File Analyser. Buy Screaming Frog. It is not close.
You work across many client sites
A desktop crawler licensed per user per year, with unlimited sites, is the right shape for agency work.
You want the raw data and your own analysis
Its exports are better than ours and always will be, because that is the product.
Before you decide
Does Silotree replace Screaming Frog?
No. For technical auditing it is not close, and this page says so. Silotree covers one question — which internal links to add and whether they worked — and does the writing part that a crawler cannot.
Can I use a Screaming Frog crawl with Silotree?
Not directly. Silotree runs its own crawl because it needs to tell contextual links from navigation on every page, which requires parsing the content region rather than the link list.
Is the Silotree audit free?
Yes, the whole audit, with no account and no email. Your first 10 links are also written free; writing more is on a paid plan.
Screaming Frog is a trademark of its owner. This comparison describes how each tool works, is based on public documentation, and was last checked in September 2026. If something here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we will change it.
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