HONEST ALTERNATIVE · SEO + AI VISIBILITY
Lumar (formerly DeepCrawl) is an enterprise technical SEO platform built for large-scale site crawling and governance: millions of pages per crawl, change detection between runs, JavaScript rendering for SPAs, team-based issue tracking, and integration with GSC and GA at enterprise scale. DeepSEOAnalysis is the accessible counterpart: a free, no-signup audit covering 80+ checks, real CrUX Core Web Vitals field data, structured data validation, and a GEO score for AI-search visibility — for sites up to 1,000 pages.
At a glance
The useful answer is not “which tool is best?” It is which tool fits the job you need done this week.
| Criterion | Competitor | DeepSEOAnalysis |
|---|---|---|
| Free access | Lumar is an enterprise platform with custom pricing — there is no public free tier or self-serve trial. Access requires a sales engagement and contract. It's positioned at large enterprises, major e-commerce platforms, and enterprise agencies with complex crawl and SEO governance requirements at scale. | Complete technical site audit is free with no signup, no email gate, and no trial expiry. All check results, severities, and fixes are visible on every on-demand crawl. |
| Core function | Lumar (formerly DeepCrawl) is an enterprise technical SEO platform built for large-scale site crawling and SEO governance. Its core capabilities: crawling millions of pages with configurable crawl settings (user-agent, speed, scope), change detection between crawl runs (tracking which issues appeared or resolved since the last crawl), automated SEO health scoring, JavaScript rendering for single-page applications, integration with GSC and GA, and team-based workflows with issue assignment and tracking. The focus is continuous technical SEO monitoring and governance at enterprise scale. | DeepSEOAnalysis is a technical SEO and AI-visibility audit tool: crawl your live site, run 80+ checks covering technical health, on-page SEO, performance, structured data, links, and AI visibility, and receive a prioritised fix list. It doesn't provide enterprise-scale crawl governance or team-based issue tracking workflows. |
| AI visibility / GEO | Lumar focuses on technical SEO governance — crawl coverage, issue tracking, and change detection. It does not include a dedicated GEO score or checks for AI-search visibility signals like llms.txt, AI crawler access, FAQPage schema, question-heading ratio, or content chunkability for AI parsing. | GEO score covers all five AI visibility signals: AI crawler access in robots.txt, llms.txt presence and completeness, FAQPage/HowTo structured data, question-heading ratio (≥20%), and content chunkability (avg section ≤400w). |
| Scale | Lumar is built for enterprise-scale crawling: millions of pages per crawl, scheduled recurring crawls, multi-segment crawl scoping, and a data warehouse of crawl results over time. It handles the complexity of large sites — multi-domain portfolios, international variations, complex JavaScript SPAs — that require dedicated enterprise infrastructure to crawl reliably. | DeepSEOAnalysis free tier crawls 50 pages; paid plans crawl up to 1,000 pages. It's suited for SMBs, agencies managing mid-market clients, and individual site owners — not for enterprise-scale crawls of millions of pages or multi-domain portfolio governance. |
| JavaScript rendering | Lumar includes a JavaScript rendering option that executes JavaScript during crawls — enabling it to crawl and analyse React, Vue, Angular, and other SPA frameworks as Googlebot would see them after the second-wave render. This is critical for enterprise clients where large portions of the site are client-side rendered. | The DeepSEOAnalysis audit compares the server-rendered HTML (first-wave view) against the fully rendered DOM to detect CSR rendering gaps — identifying content that's absent from the server HTML but present after JavaScript. This surfaces the rendering gap as an issue with CMS-specific fix guidance. |
| Core Web Vitals | Lumar integrates with Google Search Console and CrUX data to surface Core Web Vitals status within its technical SEO governance dashboard — connecting CWV failures to the affected URLs and enabling tracking of CWV improvements over time alongside other technical SEO metrics. | Real Google CrUX field data — actual Chrome users in a 28-day rolling window. Pass/fail against Good/Needs Improvement/Poor thresholds for LCP, INP, and CLS. This is the exact data Google's ranking system uses. |
| Best fit | Large enterprises, major e-commerce platforms, news publishers, media companies, and enterprise agencies that need to crawl millions of pages, maintain ongoing SEO governance across large teams, track issue resolution over time, and integrate technical SEO data into broader business intelligence workflows. | Developers, in-house SEO teams at SMBs and mid-market companies, agencies, and founders who need a complete technical and AI-visibility audit immediately — with real CrUX field data, CMS-specific fix instructions, and a shareable URL — on demand and free. |
What each product is
Lumar is strongest for enterprise-scale crawl governance: millions-of-pages crawling, scheduled recurring runs, change detection between crawls, JavaScript SPA rendering, multi-domain portfolio management, and team-based issue tracking workflows.
DeepSEOAnalysis is strongest for on-demand technical audit depth at SMB and mid-market scale: 80+ checks, real CrUX field data, AI visibility scoring, CMS-specific fix instructions, and a shareable report URL — free with no account or sales engagement required.
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Pricing context
FAQ
DeepCrawl rebranded to Lumar in 2022. The product and enterprise crawl capabilities remain the same — the rebrand consolidated the DeepCrawl crawling platform and the ContentKing real-time monitoring product (acquired in 2022, later sold to Semrush) under a unified enterprise SEO platform brand. Lumar continues as an enterprise technical SEO platform focused on large-scale site crawling, governance, and change detection.
Lumar pricing is enterprise-focused and not publicly listed — it requires a sales engagement for a custom quote based on site size, crawl frequency, and team requirements. It's positioned at the premium end of the enterprise SEO platform market. Check lumar.io for current information. DeepSEOAnalysis is permanently free for on-demand technical audits with no account required.
They serve different use cases. Screaming Frog is a desktop crawler that runs on your machine — fast for one-off audits of sites up to ~100,000 pages, highly configurable, no ongoing subscription required (free up to 500 URLs, paid licence otherwise). Lumar is a cloud-based enterprise platform for continuous monitoring at scale — millions of pages, scheduled recurring crawls, team workflows, and change detection over time. For a one-off audit, Screaming Frog; for ongoing enterprise governance, Lumar. DeepSEOAnalysis provides a free instant audit for sites up to 1,000 pages without requiring software installation.
For sites under 1,000 pages that don't need enterprise governance workflows, continuous monitoring with change tracking, or multi-domain portfolio management, DeepSEOAnalysis covers the essential technical audit needs: 80+ checks, real CrUX field data, structured data validation, internal link analysis, and AI visibility scoring — all free and without a sales engagement. For enterprise sites with millions of pages, multi-team governance requirements, or complex JavaScript SPAs requiring cloud-based rendering at scale, Lumar addresses a distinct and more complex use case.
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