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If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting, I’d focus on tools that combine a technical crawler with server-log analysis. A crawler alone can tell you how your crawler traversed the site; logs tell you what Googlebot/Bingbot/etc. actually did.

My shortlist

1. Botify — strongest for true crawl-budget analysis

This would be my first look if crawl budget is the central requirement.

Botify combines its SiteCrawler with LogAnalyzer, so you can compare your site's URL inventory against what search-engine bots actually crawl. Its Search Engines reports include metrics such as how much of the site each search engine explores, crawl depth, crawl frequency, errors, and URLs that aren't being crawled. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

It also supports recurring scheduled crawls—daily, weekly, monthly, or continuously after the previous crawl completes. Botify Knowledge Base

Particularly useful reports:

• Googlebot requests over time
• Crawl frequency by URL/section
• Crawl depth
• Crawled vs. uncrawled URLs
• Wasted crawling on redirects, parameters, duplicate/low-value URLs
• Crawl activity vs. organic visits
• Segmentation by page type
• Search-engine and AI-bot activity

The important distinction is that Botify's crawl-budget analysis uses server logs, which Botify describes as the source of truth for actual bot activity. Botify Botify Knowledge Base

2. Oncrawl — excellent alternative

Oncrawl is particularly good if you want to build recurring SEO monitoring around crawl data + log data + segmentation.

It supports scheduled recurring crawls with configurable crawl profiles, dates, times, and time zones. Oncrawl Help

Its log-analysis capabilities cover a broad range of crawlers, including Google, Bing, and various AI crawlers. It distinguishes actual crawlers—which follow links and have meaningful crawl-frequency/depth behavior—from one-off fetchers. Oncrawl Help

I'd look closely at Oncrawl if your reporting requirements are something like:

"Every Monday, crawl the site, ingest the previous week's logs, then show me how Googlebot's behavior changed by directory, template, status code, canonical/indexability status, and page value."

That's very much its territory.

3. JetOctopus — particularly good for high-volume sites

JetOctopus has a strong combination of site crawling + log analysis + Google Search Console + GA4. Its current plans explicitly include crawl-budget visualization, crawl-to-crawl comparisons, segmentation, and log-line processing. SEO Platform

It also supports scheduled daily, weekly, biweekly, and monthly crawls. SEO Platform

One thing I particularly like about JetOctopus for this use case is the emphasis on visualizing crawl behavior rather than merely dumping log statistics.

4. Screaming Frog SEO Spider — great crawler, but different category

Screaming Frog is excellent for scheduled technical crawls, but I'd put it behind Botify/Oncrawl/JetOctopus if your primary objective is ongoing crawl-budget intelligence.

The key distinction is:

Crawler:
"Here is how a crawler traversed my website."

Log analyzer:
"Here is what Googlebot actually requested from my website."

For crawl-budget optimization, you really want the second one.

What I'd choose

If I were specifying the stack based specifically on your requirements:

Large ecommerce / millions of URLs → Botify or JetOctopus

Enterprise SEO team wanting deep log analysis → Botify or Oncrawl

Agency managing lots of technical SEO projects → JetOctopus

Small/medium site and mostly technical audits → Screaming Frog

And if "detailed crawl rate and crawl budget reporting" is the #1 requirement, I'd narrow the evaluation to Botify vs. Oncrawl vs. JetOctopus, rather than treating all site crawlers as equivalent.

A useful evaluation criterion is whether the software can answer these five questions automatically:

1. How many URLs did Googlebot crawl?
2. How frequently is it crawling each important URL/section?
3. What percentage of bot requests are being spent on low-value URLs?
4. Which important/indexable URLs aren't being crawled?
5. Did those metrics improve or deteriorate after a technical change?

Botify, Oncrawl, and JetOctopus are much closer to that model than a conventional crawler-only product. Botify Knowledge Base Oncrawl Help SEO Platform

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (e.g. 100K, 1M, 10M+) and whether you have Cloudflare/CDN or raw server-log access, I can narrow these down substantially and compare pricing, crawl limits, log retention, scheduling, API/reporting, and crawl-budget metrics.

I'd look closely at Oncrawl if your reporting requirements are something like:

"Every Monday, crawl the site, ingest the previous week's logs, then show me how Googlebot's behavior changed by directory, template, status code, canonical/indexability status, and page value."

That's very much its territory.

3. JetOctopus — particularly good for high-volume sites

JetOctopus has a strong combination of site crawling + log analysis + Google Search Console + GA4. Its current plans explicitly include crawl-budget visualization, crawl-to-crawl comparisons, segmentation, and log-line processing. SEO Platform

It also supports scheduled daily, weekly, biweekly, and monthly crawls. SEO Platform

One thing I particularly like about JetOctopus for this use case is the emphasis on visualizing crawl behavior rather than merely dumping log statistics.

4. Screaming Frog SEO Spider — great crawler, but different category

Screaming Frog is excellent for scheduled technical crawls, but I'd put it behind Botify/Oncrawl/JetOctopus if your primary objective is ongoing crawl-budget intelligence.

The key distinction is:

Crawler:
"Here is how a crawler traversed my website."

Log analyzer:
"Here is what Googlebot actually requested from my website."

For crawl-budget optimization, you really want the second one.

What I'd choose

If I were specifying the stack based specifically on your requirements:

Large ecommerce / millions of URLs → Botify or JetOctopus

Enterprise SEO team wanting deep log analysis → Botify or Oncrawl

Agency managing lots of technical SEO projects → JetOctopus

Small/medium site and mostly technical audits → Screaming Frog

And if "detailed crawl rate and crawl budget reporting" is the #1 requirement, I'd narrow the evaluation to Botify vs. Oncrawl vs. JetOctopus, rather than treating all site crawlers as equivalent.

A useful evaluation criterion is whether the software can answer these five questions automatically:

1. How many URLs did Googlebot crawl?
2. How frequently is it crawling each important URL/section?
3. What percentage of bot requests are being spent on low-value URLs?
4. Which important/indexable URLs aren't being crawled?
5. Did those metrics improve or deteriorate after a technical change?

Botify, Oncrawl, and JetOctopus are much closer to that model than a conventional crawler-only product.

If your main requirement is scheduled crawls plus detailed measurement of how search engines are crawling the site, I’d separate the tools into two categories:

My recommendation

If “crawl budget reporting” is the key requirement, I'd look first at Botify, Lumar, or OnCrawl rather than a conventional site-audit crawler.

The distinction is important: a crawler such as Sitebulb tells you how your crawler traversed the site. Actual Google crawl behavior is better measured using Google Search Console's Crawl Stats plus server logs. Search Console reports Googlebot's crawl requests, response times, response types, file types, crawl purpose, and Googlebot type. Google Help

Botify is particularly interesting for a large site because its SiteCrawler is designed around search-engine crawling and combines crawl data with broader SEO analysis; it also supports recurring crawl schedules. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

Lumar/OnCrawl are worth evaluating if you specifically want an enterprise platform centered on technical SEO and log/crawl-budget analysis.

Sitebulb Cloud is what I'd consider if your requirement is more like “crawl my sites every week, compare the crawls, and produce detailed technical SEO reports.” It supports automated recurring crawls and can handle very large crawls in its cloud product. Sitebulb Sitebulb

One caveat: don't equate your crawler's configured crawl rate with Google's crawl rate. Those are different measurements. For actual Googlebot behavior, I'd ideally build the reporting stack around:

Server logs → Googlebot crawl activity → Google Search Console Crawl Stats → crawler crawl data → dashboards/trends

That gives you things such as:

• Googlebot requests/day
• Googlebot requests by URL type
• Googlebot requests by response code
• Average response time
• Bytes downloaded
• Crawl activity by directory/template
• Crawl waste from redirects, errors, duplicate URLs, parameters, etc.
• Changes in crawl activity after technical SEO releases
• Your own crawler's crawl rate and discovered/crawled URL inventory

If you tell me roughly how large the site is (e.g. 100k, 1M, 10M+ URLs) and whether you have access to server/CDN logs, I can narrow this down considerably and compare Botify vs Lumar vs OnCrawl vs Sitebulb specifically for crawl-budget reporting.

My recommendation

If “crawl budget reporting” is the key requirement, I'd look first at Botify, Lumar, or OnCrawl rather than a conventional site-audit crawler.

The distinction is important: a crawler such as Sitebulb tells you how your crawler traversed the site. Actual Google crawl behavior is better measured using Google Search Console's Crawl Stats plus server logs. Search Console reports Googlebot's crawl requests, response times, response types, file types, crawl purpose, and Googlebot type. Google Help

Botify is particularly interesting for a large site because its SiteCrawler is designed around search-engine crawling and combines crawl data with broader SEO analysis; it also supports recurring crawl schedules. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

Lumar/OnCrawl are worth evaluating if you specifically want an enterprise platform centered on technical SEO and log/crawl-budget analysis.

Sitebulb Cloud is what I'd consider if your requirement is more like “crawl my sites every week, compare the crawls, and produce detailed technical SEO reports.” It supports automated recurring crawls and can handle very large crawls in its cloud product. sitebulb.com sitebulb.com

One caveat: don't equate your crawler's configured crawl rate with Google's crawl rate. Those are different measurements. For actual Googlebot behavior, I'd ideally build the reporting stack around:

Server logs → Googlebot crawl activity → Google Search Console Crawl Stats → crawler crawl data → dashboards/trends

That gives you things such as:

If scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting are the priorities, I’d narrow the field to Botify, OnCrawl, and Lumar. My top pick would be Botify.

My ranking

1. Botify — my first choice

botify.com

If by "crawl budget reporting" you mean actually understanding how Googlebot is spending its crawl activity, rather than simply seeing how your crawler performed, Botify is probably the strongest fit.

It combines:

• Scheduled recurring crawls
• Crawl speed / requests-per-second monitoring
• Response time and bandwidth
• URLs crawled vs. discovered
• HTTP status-code trends
• Historical crawl comparisons
• Server-log data
• Google Search Console data
• Crawl-budget analysis across actual search-engine activity

Botify's crawler provides real-time crawl speed, bandwidth, response time, crawled/discovered URL counts, and status-code statistics. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

More importantly, it can combine crawl data with server logs and GSC, which is what I'd want if the goal is to answer questions like:

"Google is crawling 800k URLs/month. How many are valuable URLs, how much is wasted on parameters/facets/duplicates, and is Google's crawl activity changing after our technical changes?"

Botify also supports daily/weekly/monthly recurring crawls and continuous recurring crawling. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

I'd choose Botify if you're running a large ecommerce, marketplace, publisher, or other site with hundreds of thousands/millions of URLs.

2. OnCrawl — probably the best alternative

oncrawl.com

OnCrawl is particularly interesting if your emphasis is crawl budget + log-file analysis rather than simply technical auditing.

It supports recurring scheduled crawls, including weekly/monthly schedules. Oncrawl Help Oncrawl Developer

I'd put it very close to Botify if your workflow is heavily centered around questions such as:

• How often does Googlebot crawl each URL type?
• How much crawl activity goes to 3xx/4xx/5xx URLs?
• How frequently are important pages crawled?
• Are low-value URL classes consuming Google's crawl activity?
• How does crawl behavior correlate with organic traffic/indexation?
• Did a site change alter Googlebot's behavior?

If crawl-budget analysis is the center of your SEO operation, I'd demo both Botify and OnCrawl.

3. Lumar — excellent for scheduled technical monitoring

lumar.io

I'd choose Lumar when your primary requirement is more like:

"Crawl my site automatically every week, tell me what changed, and give my technical SEO team detailed monitoring."

Lumar lets you control crawl speed and apply different speed restrictions at different times—for example, slowing crawls during peak traffic and increasing them overnight. Lumar Lumar

Its crawl-progress reporting includes requests per second, failure rate, and URL/status-code counts, and it supports scheduled recurring crawls. Lumar

The important distinction is that I'd favor Botify/OnCrawl for true crawl-budget intelligence, while I'd favor Lumar for large-scale technical SEO monitoring and regression detection.

4. Sitebulb Cloud — best value/UX option

sitebulb.com

Sitebulb has become much more interesting with its cloud product. It supports recurring background audits and large-scale crawling, including millions of pages. Sitebulb

I'd consider it if you want:

• Excellent visualization
• Scheduled crawls
• Technical SEO issue tracking
• Historical comparisons
• Large crawls without maintaining your own crawling infrastructure
• Lower cost than the big enterprise platforms

But if crawl budget is specifically the KPI you care about, I'd still put Botify/OnCrawl ahead of it.

What I'd actually buy

For an enterprise site:

Botify → OnCrawl → Lumar

For a mid-sized site:

OnCrawl → Sitebulb Cloud → Botify

For a technical SEO consultant/agency:

Sitebulb Cloud → Screaming Frog → OnCrawl

The key distinction I'd make is crawler metrics vs. Googlebot crawl-budget metrics.

A tool telling you "we crawled your site at 15 URLs/sec" isn't really telling you about Google's crawl budget. To get the latter, you ideally want server-log analysis + GSC data + your own crawl data, so you can compare what Google actually crawled with what your crawler thinks should be crawled.

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (e.g. 100k / 1M / 10M), whether it's ecommerce, and whether you have access to server logs, I can give you a much more specific recommendation—including which tool has the best crawl-budget dashboards and what I'd configure the recurring crawl to measure.

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate telemetry + actual search-engine crawl-budget analysis, I’d put Botify at the top of the list.

My ranking

1. Botify — my first choice

Botify is unusually well suited to what you're describing because it separates your crawler's behavior from Google's actual crawling behavior.

Its crawler gives you real-time metrics including:

• URLs/sec
• bandwidth utilization
• average response time
• URLs crawled vs. discovered
• URLs discovered per minute
• HTTP status codes
• historical crawl reports
• adjustable crawl speed while a crawl is running Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

More importantly, its Search Engines reporting combines the crawl with server-log data to show things like:

• percentage of URLs crawled by Google
• how deeply Google crawls
• crawl frequency
• Google crawl errors
• URLs Google isn't crawling
• orphan URLs
• crawl volume on orphan URLs
• crawl activity on active/traffic-generating URLs Botify Knowledge Base

And you can schedule crawls daily, weekly, monthly, or continuously, which makes it particularly good for ongoing monitoring rather than one-off audits. Botify Knowledge Base

botify.com

If by "crawl budget reporting" you mean "show me how Googlebot is actually spending its crawl activity across my site," I'd choose Botify.

2. Oncrawl — excellent alternative

I'd look very seriously at Oncrawl if SEO analytics and log-file analysis are as important to you as the crawling itself.

It supports recurring scheduled crawls and lets you choose the crawl profile, date/time/time zone and recurrence. It also specifically warns about running simultaneous crawls because doing so can multiply requests against your server. Oncrawl Help

Its big strength is combining:

crawler data + server logs + search-console/SEO data

That makes it particularly useful for answering questions such as "Which pages does Googlebot actually crawl, how often, and are those the pages I want it spending time on?"

oncrawl.com

3. Lumar — best if crawl mechanics are the priority

Lumar is particularly strong if you want high-performance crawling and very granular control over how the crawler behaves.

It reports crawl progress including requests per second, failure rate and HTTP-status distributions, and supports crawl-speed controls and time-based restrictions—for example, crawling slowly during business hours and faster overnight. Lumar Lumar

It claims crawl speeds up to 450 URLs/sec non-rendered and 350 URLs/sec rendered in its testing. Lumar

lumar.io

I'd favor Lumar over Botify if your main question is:

"How fast, how safely, and how flexibly can I crawl this enormous site?"

rather than:

"How is Googlebot allocating its crawl activity?"

The important distinction

There are actually two different "crawl rates" you may be interested in:

Crawler rate

How fast your crawler hits the site — e.g. 5, 20, 100 requests/sec.

Search-engine crawl rate / budget

How often Googlebot requests URLs, which URLs it requests, how much of the site it explores, and where crawl activity is being wasted.

For the second one, server logs are extremely important. A crawler such as Screaming Frog can tell you what it found; it can't by itself tell you what Googlebot actually did over the preceding 30/60/90 days.

That's why I'd shortlist Botify and Oncrawl first for your particular requirements.

My recommendation by use case

• Enterprise site, millions of URLs, serious crawl-budget optimization: Botify
• SEO agency / multiple sites / strong log-file analysis: Oncrawl
• Huge technical crawl + granular crawler controls: Lumar
• Primarily technical audits and lower-cost desktop crawling: Screaming Frog

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (e.g. 100K, 1M, 50M) and whether you have access to server logs, I can narrow this down to the best 1–2 options and explain exactly what crawl-budget metrics I'd configure.

2. Oncrawl — excellent alternative

I'd look very seriously at Oncrawl if SEO analytics and log-file analysis are as important to you as the crawling itself.

It supports recurring scheduled crawls and lets you choose the crawl profile, date/time/time zone and recurrence. It also specifically warns about running simultaneous crawls because doing so can multiply requests against your server. Oncrawl Help

Its big strength is combining:

crawler data + server logs + search-console/SEO data

That makes it particularly useful for answering questions such as "Which pages does Googlebot actually crawl, how often, and are those the pages I want it spending time on?"

oncrawl.com

3. Lumar — best if crawl mechanics are the priority

Lumar is particularly strong if you want high-performance crawling and very granular control over how the crawler behaves.

It reports crawl progress including requests per second, failure rate and HTTP-status distributions, and supports crawl-speed controls and time-based restrictions—for example, crawling slowly during business hours and faster overnight. lumar.io help.lumar.io

It claims crawl speeds up to 450 URLs/sec non-rendered and 350 URLs/sec rendered in its testing. lumar.io

lumar.io

I'd favor Lumar over Botify if your main question is:

"How fast, how safely, and how flexibly can I crawl this enormous site?"

rather than:

"How is Googlebot allocating its crawl activity?"

The important distinction

There are actually two different "crawl rates" you may be interested in:

Crawler rate

How fast your crawler hits the site — e.g. 5, 20, 100 requests/sec.

Search-engine crawl rate / budget

How often Googlebot requests URLs, which URLs it requests, how much of the site it explores, and where crawl activity is being wasted.

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting, I’d narrow the field to Botify, OnCrawl, and Lumar, with Botify as my first choice for a serious SEO/enterprise setup.

1. botify.com — my top recommendation

Botify is the one I'd investigate first if by "crawl budget reporting" you mean understanding how Googlebot is actually spending its crawl activity, rather than simply monitoring your own crawler.

It supports recurring daily/weekly/monthly crawls, and its Crawl Manager gives you historical crawl reports. More importantly, its live crawl statistics include pages/second, bandwidth utilization, response time, pages crawled vs. discovered, URLs discovered over time, and HTTP status codes. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

Its bigger advantage is combining crawling with log-file analysis. Botify explicitly positions its platform around search-bot behavior and crawl-budget optimization, including daily log ingestion. Botify

I'd choose Botify if:

• You have hundreds of thousands/millions of URLs.
• You want to understand Googlebot/Bingbot behavior, not just run an SEO crawler.
• Crawl budget is a significant concern.
• You want historical trend reporting.
• You can justify enterprise-oriented pricing.

2. oncrawl.com — potentially the best crawl-budget specialist

I'd put OnCrawl very close to Botify if the central question is:

"Where is Google's crawl budget going, and what should we change?"

It's particularly strong when you combine server logs + crawl data + search/indexation data. That's considerably more useful for crawl-budget work than simply looking at a crawler's pages-per-second number.

3. lumar.io — strong enterprise alternative

Lumar (formerly Deepcrawl) is another good choice for continuous enterprise technical SEO monitoring. I'd favor it when the broader requirement is automated technical SEO governance rather than primarily crawl-budget research.

4. sitebulb.com — best value if you don't need true bot/log analysis

Sitebulb Cloud is particularly attractive if you primarily want scheduled technical crawls and excellent reporting. It supports daily, weekly, and monthly automated crawls, with comparable audit snapshots over time. Sitebulb

Cloud can crawl up to 10 million URLs per audit, and Sitebulb emphasizes visualization and prioritized technical findings. Sitebulb

The important distinction is that Sitebulb is primarily an SEO crawler/auditor. If you specifically need to answer "How is Googlebot allocating its crawl budget?", I'd step up to Botify/OnCrawl and add log analysis.

What I'd actually buy

For a large ecommerce/content site, I'd go:

Botify + server log analysis → best overall crawl-budget stack

For a mid-sized site where technical SEO audits are the main objective:

Sitebulb Cloud → probably the best balance of capability and usability

For an enterprise SEO team focused specifically on crawl-budget optimization:

Botify vs. OnCrawl → demo both using your own site's logs

One important distinction: your crawler's crawl rate isn't the same thing as Google's crawl rate or crawl budget. A tool can tell you that its crawler is doing 20 pages/sec, but that doesn't tell you how Googlebot is allocating its crawl resources. For the latter, you really want Google Search Console + server-log analysis + your own controlled crawls.

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (e.g. 100k / 1M / 10M+), whether you have server logs, and whether this is ecommerce/news/SaaS/etc., I can give you a much tighter Botify vs. OnCrawl vs. Lumar vs. Sitebulb comparison, including which one has the reporting metrics you're looking for.

If your priority is scheduled site crawls + detailed crawl-rate telemetry + actual crawl-budget analysis, I’d shortlist these:

My recommendation: JetOctopus or Botify

JetOctopus would be my first choice if you want a tool that is relatively straightforward to operate but still gives you serious crawl-budget visibility. Its current plans explicitly include crawl-budget visualization, crawl-to-crawl comparisons, segmentation, JavaScript crawling, GSC/log integrations, and alerts. TechSEO AI

It is particularly attractive if you're trying to answer questions like:

• How many URLs did Googlebot actually crawl?
• How much of Google's crawl activity is being wasted?
• Which URL types consume disproportionate crawl activity?
• How has crawl behavior changed after a deployment?
• Are Googlebot crawl patterns aligned with the site's important pages?
• How does the site's own crawler crawl compare with Googlebot?

Botify is the one I'd choose for a large enterprise site where crawl behavior itself is a major SEO KPI. Its crawler exposes real-time pages/second, bandwidth utilization, response time, URLs crawled vs. discovered, new URLs discovered per minute, and HTTP-status-code activity. Botify Knowledge Base

It also supports recurring daily/weekly/monthly crawls and continuous recurring crawls. Botify Knowledge Base

More importantly, Botify combines the crawl data with server logs and Google Search Console data, which is much closer to what I'd call genuine crawl-budget analysis rather than simply "our crawler crawled X pages." Botify Knowledge Base

One important distinction

If by "crawl rate" you mean your crawler's performance—e.g. 20 URLs/sec, response time, bandwidth, HTTP status distribution—Botify is excellent. It gives you those metrics in real time. Botify Knowledge Base

If you mean Googlebot's crawl rate and crawl-budget utilization, I'd prioritize a platform with server-log ingestion. That's because your own crawler cannot tell you how Googlebot is actually spending its crawl activity.

For that use case, I'd rank them:

1. Botify — strongest overall for Googlebot crawl behavior + logs + scheduled crawls.
2. JetOctopus — probably the best combination of crawl-budget visualization, logs, crawling and usability.
3. OnCrawl — excellent if your SEO team wants to do extensive analysis across crawl + log datasets.
4. Lumar — very good enterprise crawler/monitoring platform, particularly if technical SEO monitoring is broader than crawl budget.
5. Screaming Frog — fantastic crawler, but I'd not make it the centerpiece of a serious automated crawl-budget monitoring program.

There's also an important scale consideration: crawl budget becomes much more consequential on very large sites, particularly sites with hundreds of thousands or millions of URLs. For a 20,000-page site, I'd probably avoid paying enterprise-platform prices just to get "crawl budget" reporting.

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (e.g. 100k / 1M / 10M), whether you have access to server logs, and whether you're monitoring Googlebot specifically, I can give you a much more specific Botify vs. JetOctopus vs. OnCrawl recommendation, including what I'd actually configure the scheduled reports to track.

If your priority is scheduled site crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting, I’d shortlist these three:

1. Botify — my first choice

botify.com

For exactly what you're describing, Botify is probably the strongest fit.

It lets you schedule daily, weekly, or monthly crawls, as well as continuously recurring crawls. Botify Knowledge Base During a crawl you can see pages/second, bandwidth utilization, response time, pages crawled, URLs discovered, and status codes in real time. Botify Knowledge Base

More importantly, its Search Engines reports combine your crawl with server-log data, letting you see:

• How frequently Google crawls different sections
• How deeply Google crawls
• Which pages Google actually crawls
• Which pages aren't being crawled
• Crawl errors
• Crawl behavior over time
• How crawler activity relates to organic traffic

Botify Knowledge BaseThat's much closer to actual crawl-budget analysis than simply running a technical SEO crawl.

I'd choose Botify if: you're running a large site and want to answer questions like "Where is Google spending its crawl budget, how often does it come back, and what percentage of our important URLs actually get crawled?"

2. JetOctopus — possibly better if logs are your main concern

jetoctopus.com

JetOctopus is particularly compelling if you want very granular bot behavior analysis.

Its Log Analyzer segments crawler activity by bot, URL, status code, crawl frequency, and site section. It specifically tracks changes in Googlebot crawl frequency and can show where crawl rates increase or decrease. Tech SEO Platform

It also combines:

Crawl → Logs → GSC → GA4

in one platform, so you can connect what exists on your site with what Google actually crawls and what subsequently gets impressions/traffic. Tech SEO Platform

One particularly nice aspect is that JetOctopus doesn't impose a log-line limit in its pricing model; its limits are based on unique URLs rather than the number of log lines. Tech SEO Platform

I'd choose JetOctopus if: your definition of "crawl budget reporting" is primarily server-log-level analysis of Googlebot behavior.

3. Oncrawl — good middle ground

oncrawl.com

Oncrawl supports recurring scheduled crawls and can automatically run them weekly or monthly. Oncrawl Help Oncrawl Developer

It's particularly good for combining crawler data with log data and other SEO datasets. I'd put it behind Botify and JetOctopus specifically for crawl-rate/budget diagnostics, but it's a very capable enterprise technical-SEO platform.

My recommendation

If I were evaluating them specifically for your requirement, I'd rank them:

1. Botify — best overall
2. JetOctopus — best for granular crawl-budget/log analysis
3. Oncrawl — best broader technical-SEO analytics alternative

The key distinction is that a normal crawler tells you how your site can be crawled; server logs tell you how Googlebot actually crawls it. For serious crawl-budget reporting, I'd therefore prioritize a platform that combines scheduled crawling and log analysis.

If you tell me roughly how large the site is (e.g. 100K, 1M, 10M+ URLs) and whether you have server/CDN log access, I can narrow this down considerably—and include pricing and the exact crawl-budget reports each provides.

If scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting are the priorities, I’d put Oncrawl at the top of the list.

My shortlist

🥇 Oncrawl — my recommendation

Oncrawl is unusually well suited to what you're describing because it combines scheduled technical crawls with server-log analysis. You can schedule recurring crawls using reusable crawl profiles, and it supports crawl-over-crawl comparisons. Oncrawl Help Oncrawl Help

More importantly, its log monitoring gives you actual evidence of how search-engine bots are using your site's crawl budget—not merely how your SEO crawler traversed the site. It can analyze Googlebot and other crawler activity, including crawl frequency and URL-level activity. Oncrawl Help Oncrawl Help

It also has near-real-time log monitoring, with historical aggregation available by day, week, and month, which makes it particularly useful for tracking crawl behavior over time. Oncrawl Help Oncrawl Help

And if you want to automate reporting, Oncrawl has an API that exposes crawl and log metrics and can trigger/schedule crawls programmatically. Oncrawl Help

I'd choose Oncrawl if your reporting needs include things like:

• Googlebot hits per day/week
• Crawl frequency by URL or URL segment
• Pages crawled vs. pages actually receiving search-bot visits
• Crawl budget wasted on parameters, redirects, duplicates, errors, etc.
• Crawl depth/frequency by page type
• Changes in Googlebot behavior after releases
• Crawl budget by directory/template/content type
• Correlating crawl activity with GSC performance
• Historical crawl-budget trends
• Automated recurring crawls and alerts

That's a materially different capability from simply scheduling an SEO site audit.

🥈 Lumar

I'd look at Lumar if you're dealing with a very large enterprise site where crawling speed and scale are major considerations. Lumar supports scheduled crawls at arbitrary intervals and is designed for sites ranging into the millions of pages. Its crawler can reach very high crawl rates—Lumar reports up to 450 URLs/sec in its infrastructure. Lumar Lumar

Its strength is more enterprise website quality/technical monitoring than crawl-budget analytics specifically.

🥉 Screaming Frog

Screaming Frog SEO Spider is still my choice for a powerful crawler sitting on an SEO's desktop. It has sophisticated crawl configuration and scheduled crawling, and its scheduler can automatically export crawl data for reporting. Screaming Frog

But there's an important distinction:

Screaming Frog tells you how your crawler crawled the site. Oncrawl can tell you how Googlebot is actually crawling the site.

If "crawl budget" is a central KPI, that distinction matters.

Sitebulb

Sitebulb Cloud is attractive if the goal is recurring technical audits that are easy for an SEO team to interpret and share. It supports scheduled cloud crawls and emphasizes visualization and actionable reporting. Sitebulb

I'd choose it over Oncrawl for technical SEO auditing/reporting, but not if detailed bot/crawl-budget telemetry is the primary requirement.

What I'd buy

For your specific wording—"scheduled site crawls with detailed crawl rate and crawl budget reporting"—I'd rank them:

1. Oncrawl — best overall fit
2. Lumar — best for very large enterprise environments
3. Screaming Frog — best crawler, but not the best standalone crawl-budget platform
4. Sitebulb Cloud — best for approachable recurring technical audits

One caveat: if by "crawl rate" you mean the rate at which Googlebot is making requests to your actual server, rather than the speed of an SEO crawler, I would strongly favor Oncrawl. Its log-analysis layer is what makes that measurement possible. oncrawl.com Oncrawl Help

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (e.g. 100K, 1M, 10M+), I can narrow this down further and compare Oncrawl vs. Lumar vs. Botify vs. JetOctopus specifically for crawl-budget reporting.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider is still my choice for a powerful crawler sitting on an SEO's desktop. It has sophisticated crawl configuration and scheduled crawling, and its scheduler can automatically export crawl data for reporting. Screaming Frog

But there's an important distinction:

Screaming Frog tells you how your crawler crawled the site. Oncrawl can tell you how Googlebot is actually crawling the site.

If "crawl budget" is a central KPI, that distinction matters.

Sitebulb

Sitebulb Cloud is attractive if the goal is recurring technical audits that are easy for an SEO team to interpret and share. It supports scheduled cloud crawls and emphasizes visualization and actionable reporting.

I'd choose it over Oncrawl for technical SEO auditing/reporting, but not if detailed bot/crawl-budget telemetry is the primary requirement.

What I'd buy

For your specific wording—"scheduled site crawls with detailed crawl rate and crawl budget reporting"—I'd rank them:

If you mean scheduled technical SEO crawls with reporting around crawl rate, crawl budget, Googlebot behavior, log analysis, and trends over time, I would look beyond basic site-audit crawlers. The best choice depends heavily on site size and how deeply you need to analyze Google’s actual crawling.

Best overall options

Botify Knowledge Base Lumar## My recommendations by use case

1. Large ecommerce, marketplace, publisher, or millions of URLs

Pick: Botify

This is the closest match to your requirements. It is designed around questions like:

• How often is Google crawling my site?
• Which URL groups consume crawl budget?
• Are crawl resources wasted on parameters, duplicates, faceted navigation, or low-value pages?
• Which important pages are being ignored?
• How does Googlebot behavior change after releases?

Botify combines its crawler with server log analysis and reporting around Google’s actual crawl activity. Its Search Engines reports include metrics such as crawl frequency, crawl depth, crawled vs. not crawled URLs, and Googlebot crawl behavior. Botify Knowledge Base

2. Enterprise SEO monitoring and regression detection

Pick: Lumar

Good if you care about:

• scheduled recurring crawls
• technical change monitoring
• alerts after deployments
• accessibility + SEO auditing
• large-scale reporting

Lumar emphasizes high-scale crawling, custom extraction, and large numbers of automated reports. Lumar

3. Strong analytics without enterprise pricing

Pick: Sitebulb Cloud

A good middle ground:

• scheduled automated crawls
• historical comparisons
• visual crawl maps
• technical issue prioritization
• team collaboration

It is especially good for agencies managing multiple sites. Sitebulb Cloud supports scheduled background crawls and recurring audits. Sitebulb

4. If you mainly need raw crawl control

Pick: Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Still one of the best technical crawlers, especially if you need:

• custom extraction
• regex rules
• XML sitemap checks
• JavaScript rendering tests
• flexible crawl configurations

However, it is not primarily a crawl-budget intelligence platform. You would usually combine it with:

• Google Search Console crawl stats
• server logs
• BigQuery analysis
• a log analyzer

My shortlist

If I were building a crawl-monitoring stack:

• Enterprise SEO team: Botify + log file analysis
• Large site but budget-conscious: OnCrawl or Lumar
• Agency / multiple clients: Sitebulb Cloud
• Technical SEO specialist: Screaming Frog + custom reporting

For your exact phrase — “scheduled site crawls with detailed crawl rate and crawl budget reporting” — I would start with Botify because crawl budget is a first-class reporting area rather than just a byproduct of a crawl. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

A couple of details would change the recommendation:

• approximate site size (10k, 100k, 1M+ URLs)?
• do you have access to server logs?
• are you analyzing Googlebot specifically, or just running recurring SEO audits?

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting, I’d narrow it to JetOctopus, Lumar, and OnCrawl, with JetOctopus my first choice for most teams.

My ranking

🥇 JetOctopus — my recommendation

jetoctopus.com is probably the closest match to what you're describing.

Its big advantage is that it combines:

• Scheduled/full-site crawling
• Crawl-budget visualization
• Googlebot log analysis
• Google Search Console data
• GA4 data
• Crawl-to-crawl comparisons
• Segmentation
• Bot-level analysis, including Googlebot and other crawlers
• Alerts and historical data

The particularly important distinction is that JetOctopus doesn't just tell you how your crawler crawled the site. Its log analyzer can show how Googlebot actually crawls the site, including where crawl budget is being spent or wasted. Its current platform also supports real-time bot-log analysis. Tech SEO Platform Tech SEO Platform

For example, I'd want a dashboard that can answer:

Googlebot made 1.2M requests last month. What percentage went to indexable HTML pages vs. parameters, redirects, 404s, duplicate pages, etc.?

That's much closer to true crawl-budget analysis than simply measuring the speed of an SEO crawler.

🥈 Lumar — best for enterprise crawling infrastructure

lumar.io is particularly attractive if you're dealing with millions of URLs, large international sites, or complicated technical monitoring.

Lumar reports crawl performance such as requests/second and failure rates while a crawl is running, and its crawler supports safeguards that can automatically pause a crawl when failure-rate thresholds are exceeded. It also offers hundreds of built-in reports and custom metrics. Lumar

I'd favor Lumar over JetOctopus if your primary requirement is:

"I need an enterprise crawling/QA platform that can monitor enormous sites safely and continuously."

🥉 OnCrawl — best for serious crawl-budget analytics

oncrawl.com is worth considering if you're building a very data-driven SEO operation.

Its sweet spot is combining crawl data + server logs + Search Console/search data to understand how crawl behavior relates to indexation and organic performance. That's particularly useful when the question isn't merely "what did Google crawl?" but "is Google spending its crawl resources on the URLs that actually matter?"

Sitebulb Cloud — best UX/value

sitebulb.com is another strong option. It supports recurring scheduled audits and cloud crawling, including large sites, and has particularly good visual reporting. Sitebulb Sitebulb

I'd choose it if your requirement is more:

"Run a comprehensive technical crawl every week/month and give the SEO team excellent reporting."

rather than:

"Give me sophisticated Googlebot crawl-budget intelligence."

Sitebulb Cloud's current enterprise offering supports audits of up to 2.5M URLs and 5M+ URLs/month on custom enterprise plans. Sitebulb

One important distinction

If by "crawl rate" you mean your crawler's request rate—e.g. 50 requests/sec, response times, error rates, crawl duration—then Lumar is especially compelling.

If you mean Googlebot crawl rate/budget—e.g.:

• Googlebot requests/day
• URLs crawled/day
• crawl frequency by URL type
• crawl budget wasted on parameters
• Googlebot hits on non-indexable URLs
• Googlebot vs. Bingbot vs. AI bots
• recrawl frequency
• log-derived crawl trends

then I'd put JetOctopus and OnCrawl at the top.

If I were implementing this for a large e-commerce/content site, my shortlist would be:

1. JetOctopus → best overall crawl-budget intelligence
2. OnCrawl → best analytical/data-science approach
3. Lumar → best enterprise crawler/monitoring infrastructure
4. Sitebulb Cloud → best usability/value

And I would not make Screaming Frog the primary platform for this particular requirement. It's an excellent crawler, but scheduled crawling plus deep, ongoing Googlebot crawl-budget analysis is not where it is strongest. CrawlBudget

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (100k / 1M / 10M+) and whether you have access to server/CDN logs, I can give you a much more specific recommendation and compare JetOctopus vs. OnCrawl vs. Lumar feature-by-feature.

"I need an enterprise crawling/QA platform that can monitor enormous sites safely and continuously."

🥉 OnCrawl — best for serious crawl-budget analytics

oncrawl.com is worth considering if you're building a very data-driven SEO operation.

Its sweet spot is combining crawl data + server logs + Search Console/search data to understand how crawl behavior relates to indexation and organic performance. That's particularly useful when the question isn't merely "what did Google crawl?" but "is Google spending its crawl resources on the URLs that actually matter?"

Sitebulb Cloud — best UX/value

sitebulb.com is another strong option. It supports recurring scheduled audits and cloud crawling, including large sites, and has particularly good visual reporting. sitebulb.com sitebulb.com

I'd choose it if your requirement is more:

"Run a comprehensive technical crawl every week/month and give the SEO team excellent reporting."

rather than:

"Give me sophisticated Googlebot crawl-budget intelligence."

Sitebulb Cloud's current enterprise offering supports audits of up to 2.5M URLs and 5M+ URLs/month on custom enterprise plans.

One important distinction

If your priority is scheduled site crawls + detailed crawl-rate and crawl-budget reporting, I would focus less on general SEO suites and more on technical SEO platforms that combine crawling with server log analysis. Crawl budget is fundamentally about comparing what search engine bots request vs. what you want indexed, so log-file data is usually the differentiator.

Here are my top recommendations:

The Business Rover TechSEO.ai## My shortlist by use case

1. Best overall for crawl budget: Botify

Choose this if you have:

• millions of URLs
• ecommerce, marketplace, publishing, or international sites
• a need to answer questions like: - “How much of Googlebot’s crawl activity is wasted?”
• “Which URL clusters consume crawl budget?”
• “Are important pages being crawled often enough?”
• “Is crawl frequency correlated with organic traffic?”

Botify is one of the strongest options because it combines:

• crawler data
• server log analysis
• Googlebot behavior analysis
• indexation insights
• crawl demand modeling

It is usually the tool I would recommend for a serious enterprise SEO team.

2. Best balance of power and usability: JetOctopus

JetOctopus is a strong choice if you want detailed reporting without the complexity of some enterprise platforms. It provides scheduled crawling, large-scale crawling, and log analysis features aimed at understanding bot behavior. TechSEO.ai

Good reports include:

• Googlebot crawl activity
• wasted crawl budget
• orphan pages
• crawl depth
• response code distribution
• indexability problems
• JS rendering issues

I would shortlist this for:

• agencies
• mid-market companies
• technical SEO consultants
• sites under a few million URLs

3. Best enterprise monitoring workflow: Lumar

Lumar (formerly Deepcrawl) is excellent when you need:

• recurring scheduled crawls
• change detection
• governance workflows
• alerts when technical SEO regresses

It is especially strong for teams managing many sites or many stakeholders. Shev Dilay

4. Best for SEO data scientists: Oncrawl

If your SEO team works heavily in:

• BigQuery
• BI dashboards
• custom segmentation
• statistical analysis

then Oncrawl is worth evaluating. It is built around combining crawl data, logs, and search performance data.

5. Best budget option: Screaming Frog + log analyzer

For smaller teams:

• run scheduled crawls
• export crawl data
• combine with log files
• build dashboards in Looker Studio

It is less turnkey, but extremely flexible.

What I would not rely on alone

Tools like Ahrefs or Semrush are excellent SEO platforms, but they are not my first choice if your main question is “How is Googlebot spending crawl budget on my site?” They are broader SEO suites rather than dedicated crawl-budget intelligence platforms. Semrush for Enterprise Ahrefs

My recommendation matrix

• >10M URLs / enterprise ecommerce / marketplace: Botify or Oncrawl
• 500K–10M URLs: JetOctopus or Lumar
• Agency managing many clients: JetOctopus or Lumar
• Technical SEO team wanting maximum control: Screaming Frog + log analysis
• Marketing team wanting SEO + reporting in one place: Semrush Enterprise

If you share your approximate site size (URLs), CMS (Shopify/Adobe/Magento/custom), and whether you have server log access, I can narrow this down to 1–2 choices.

My recommendation matrix

If your priority is scheduled site crawls plus detailed crawl-rate and crawl-budget reporting, I would focus less on general SEO suites and more on platforms that combine:

• Scheduled/cloud crawling
• Server log analysis (what Googlebot actually crawls)
• Crawl frequency and URL discovery reporting
• Crawl waste identification
• Indexation analysis
• Bot segmentation (Googlebot, Bingbot, AI crawlers, etc.)
• Historical comparisons and alerts

My shortlist:

Tech SEO Platform Shev Dilay## My recommendations by scenario

1. Large ecommerce, marketplace, publisher, or millions of URLs

Pick: Botify

This is the strongest choice if you specifically care about crawl budget. Its differentiator is combining:

• Site crawling
• Server log analysis
• Googlebot crawl behavior
• Indexation data
• Crawl prioritization

It can answer questions like:

• "Which URLs consume Googlebot activity but never rank?"
• "How much crawl budget is wasted on parameters, duplicates, or low-value pages?"
• "Are important templates getting crawled often enough?"

Botify is generally where large SEO teams go when crawl efficiency directly affects revenue. Shev Dilay

2. Best balance of power and usability

Pick: JetOctopus

JetOctopus is probably the tool I would evaluate first for many teams because it combines:

• Scheduled crawls
• Log analyzer
• Google Search Console integration
• Crawl visualization
• Bot behavior reporting
• Large-scale crawling

It is particularly good if you want dashboards showing:

• Googlebot hits over time
• Crawled vs indexed pages
• Crawl depth
• Wasted crawl budget
• Crawl frequency by URL type

Tech SEO Platform Tech SEO Platform

3. Enterprise technical SEO monitoring

Pick: Lumar

Formerly DeepCrawl, Lumar is strong for organizations that need:

• Recurring technical audits
• Regression monitoring
• Multiple properties
• Team workflows
• Governance reporting

It is less focused purely on crawl budget than Botify, but excellent for ongoing enterprise site health. Shev Dilay CrawlBudget

4. Lower-cost / hands-on SEO teams

Pick: Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Great crawler, especially if you want control:

• Custom extraction
• JavaScript rendering
• Crawl comparisons
• Log file analysis add-on
• Scheduled crawls through automation

The tradeoff: reporting and dashboards require more setup compared with cloud platforms.

Metrics I would require before buying

For crawl-budget work, I would not buy a crawler unless it reports:

Crawl behavior

• URLs crawled per day
• Crawl frequency by URL
• Crawl depth
• Response codes consumed by bots
• Average crawl rate

Crawl waste

• Duplicate URLs crawled
• Parameter URLs
• Redirect chains
• Soft 404s
• Low-value pages consuming bot visits

Googlebot efficiency

• Googlebot hits vs organic landing pages
• Crawled-but-not-indexed URLs
• Important URLs not crawled
• Crawl frequency by template/category

Change monitoring

• Scheduled recrawls
• Crawl comparison
• Alerts after releases/migrations

My practical ranking

1. Botify — best pure crawl-budget intelligence
2. JetOctopus — best combination of depth, speed, and usability
3. Lumar — best enterprise governance/workflows
4. Screaming Frog — best technical crawler for experts
5. Semrush Site Audit — best if crawl reporting is only one part of a larger SEO stack

Shev Dilay Tech SEO PlatformIf you tell me your approximate site size (e.g., 50k, 500k, 10M+ URLs), CMS, and whether you have server log access, I can narrow this down substantially.

If your priority is scheduled site crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting, I’d shortlist these:

My recommendation: JetOctopus

For the specific requirements you mentioned, JetOctopus is probably where I'd start. It combines scheduled crawling with log-file analysis, GSC data, segmentation, and explicit crawl-budget optimization reporting. Its crawler can run at very high speeds, and the platform supports scheduled crawls and crawl comparisons. Technical SEO Platform Technical SEO Platform

The particularly useful part is that you can compare what Googlebot actually crawls against what exists on the site. That gets you much closer to genuine crawl-budget analysis than simply looking at how fast an SEO crawler can crawl your site.

jetoctopus.com

If you have a very large enterprise site: Botify

I'd choose Botify if you're talking about tens of millions of URLs, multiple properties, or a serious SEO/data engineering operation.

Botify gives you real-time crawl statistics including pages/second, bandwidth utilization, response time, URLs crawled vs. discovered, URLs discovered per minute, and HTTP status codes. It also maintains historical crawl reports for trend analysis. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

It also supports recurring daily/weekly/monthly crawls and continuous recurring crawls, which is particularly useful for huge sites where a crawl may take days. Botify Knowledge Base

botify.com

Oncrawl is another strong choice

Oncrawl is particularly compelling if your definition of "crawl budget reporting" is more analytical: combining crawler data with server logs and other SEO datasets to understand how Google is allocating its crawl activity.

It supports recurring scheduled crawls, and its API exposes scheduled-crawl management as well. Oncrawl Help Oncrawl Developer

oncrawl.com

One important distinction

I'd separate crawler speed from Google crawl rate/crawl budget.

For example:

"Our crawler crawled 500 URLs/second."

is a measurement of your SEO crawler's performance.

Whereas:

"Googlebot is spending 72% of its crawl activity on parameterized/product-filter URLs and only 8% on our priority category pages."

is actual crawl-budget analysis.

For the latter, you really want server-log data + Googlebot validation + crawler data, rather than relying on an SEO crawler alone. JetOctopus, Botify, and Oncrawl are the three I'd focus on for that reason. JetOctopus, for example, explicitly analyzes validated Googlebot/Bingbot log visits and provides crawl-budget optimization insights. Technical SEO Platform

My ranking for your stated requirements:

1. 🥇 JetOctopus — best combination of crawl monitoring, scheduling, logs, bot behavior and reporting.
2. 🥈 Botify — best for very large enterprise sites and sophisticated crawl-budget analytics.
3. 🥉 Oncrawl — excellent if you want to build deeper data-driven SEO analysis around crawl/log data.
4. Lumar — strong enterprise crawler, especially if technical SEO monitoring is broader than crawl budget.
5. Screaming Frog — fantastic crawler, but I'd supplement it with log analysis if crawl budget is a primary KPI.

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (e.g. 100K, 5M, 100M) and whether you have access to server/CDN logs, I can narrow this down to the best 1–2 options and compare their reporting capabilities and pricing.

For the specific requirements you mentioned, JetOctopus is probably where I'd start. It combines scheduled crawling with log-file analysis, GSC data, segmentation, and explicit crawl-budget optimization reporting. Its crawler can run at very high speeds, and the platform supports scheduled crawls and crawl comparisons. Technical SEO Platform Technical SEO Platform

The particularly useful part is that you can compare what Googlebot actually crawls against what exists on the site. That gets you much closer to genuine crawl-budget analysis than simply looking at how fast an SEO crawler can crawl your site.

jetoctopus.com

If you have a very large enterprise site: Botify

I'd choose Botify if you're talking about tens of millions of URLs, multiple properties, or a serious SEO/data engineering operation.

Botify gives you real-time crawl statistics including pages/second, bandwidth utilization, response time, URLs crawled vs. discovered, URLs discovered per minute, and HTTP status codes. It also maintains historical crawl reports for trend analysis. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

It also supports recurring daily/weekly/monthly crawls and continuous recurring crawls, which is particularly useful for huge sites where a crawl may take days. Botify Knowledge Base

botify.com

Oncrawl is another strong choice

Oncrawl is particularly compelling if your definition of "crawl budget reporting" is more analytical: combining crawler data with server logs and other SEO datasets to understand how Google is allocating its crawl activity.

It supports recurring scheduled crawls, and its API exposes scheduled-crawl management as well. Oncrawl Help Oncrawl Developer

oncrawl.com

One important distinction

I'd separate crawler speed from Google crawl rate/crawl budget.

For example:

"Our crawler crawled 500 URLs/second."

is a measurement of your SEO crawler's performance.

Whereas:

"Googlebot is spending 72% of its crawl activity on parameterized/product-filter URLs and only 8% on our priority category pages."

is actual crawl-budget analysis.

For the latter, you really want server-log data + Googlebot validation + crawler data, rather than relying on an SEO crawler alone. JetOctopus, Botify, and Oncrawl are the three I'd focus on for that reason. JetOctopus, for example, explicitly analyzes validated Googlebot/Bingbot log visits and provides crawl-budget optimization insights.

My ranking for your stated requirements:

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate telemetry + actual crawl-budget analysis, I’d shortlist these:

My #1: Botify

For the requirements you specifically mentioned, Botify is probably the strongest fit.

Its crawler exposes real-time pages/second, bandwidth utilization, average response time, pages crawled vs. discovered, URL discovery over time, and HTTP status-code activity. It also retains crawl history so you can compare analyses over time. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

More importantly, Botify can combine crawling with server logs and Google Search Console data. That's a major distinction: if by "crawl budget" you mean what Googlebot actually spends its crawl activity on, rather than simply what my SEO crawler discovered, log data is extremely valuable. Botify Knowledge Base

You can also schedule recurring crawls daily, weekly, monthly, or continuously after the previous crawl finishes. Botify Knowledge Base

botify.com

My #2: JetOctopus

I'd seriously consider JetOctopus if you want something more self-service and potentially less enterprise-heavy.

Its particularly strong combination is:

Crawler + Googlebot/Bingbot log analysis + GSC

It explicitly provides crawl-budget optimization insights, bot-behavior analysis, crawl-speed information, historical crawl comparisons, and log analysis. Its current platform also supports scheduled crawls. Tech SEO Platform Tech SEO Platform

That makes it arguably the most interesting alternative to Botify if your main question is:

"Where is Googlebot spending its crawl activity, and are we wasting crawl budget?"

jetoctopus.com

Lumar

I'd put Lumar ahead of Sitebulb if you're running a large enterprise site and care more about continuous technical monitoring and regression detection than deep bot-log analytics.

Its scheduled-crawl infrastructure is mature, and scheduled projects provide last/next crawl and frequency information. It also produces change reporting between successive crawls. Lumar Lumar

lumar.io

The important distinction

There's a subtle but important difference between crawl rate and crawl budget:

• Crawler crawl rate: "My crawler requested 12 pages/sec and received 95% HTTP 200s."
• Googlebot crawl rate: "Googlebot requested 38,000 URLs over the last 7 days."
• Crawl budget utilization: "Googlebot spent 27% of its requests on parameter URLs, 18% on redirects, etc."
• Crawl efficiency: "Of the URLs Googlebot crawled, X% are indexable/valuable pages."

If you want the second through fourth, I'd strongly favor a platform that ingests server logs, rather than relying solely on an SEO crawler.

What I'd choose

Large site / serious SEO operations: Botify

Large site but want strong crawl-budget + log analysis with a more approachable platform: JetOctopus

Enterprise technical monitoring / deployment regression: Lumar

Smaller site / primarily technical SEO audits: Sitebulb

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (e.g. 100k, 1M, 50M) and whether you have server-log access, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 and compare their crawl scheduling, pages/sec reporting, Googlebot log analysis, crawl-budget reports, APIs, alerts, and approximate pricing.

Its particularly strong combination is:

Crawler + Googlebot/Bingbot log analysis + GSC

It explicitly provides crawl-budget optimization insights, bot-behavior analysis, crawl-speed information, historical crawl comparisons, and log analysis. Its current platform also supports scheduled crawls. Tech SEO Platform Tech SEO Platform

That makes it arguably the most interesting alternative to Botify if your main question is:

"Where is Googlebot spending its crawl activity, and are we wasting crawl budget?"

jetoctopus.com

Lumar

I'd put Lumar ahead of Sitebulb if you're running a large enterprise site and care more about continuous technical monitoring and regression detection than deep bot-log analytics.

Its scheduled-crawl infrastructure is mature, and scheduled projects provide last/next crawl and frequency information. It also produces change reporting between successive crawls. lumar.io help.lumar.io

lumar.io

The important distinction

There's a subtle but important difference between crawl rate and crawl budget:

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting, I’d put Botify at the top of the list.

My shortlist

1. Botify — my recommendation

For your specific requirement, Botify is probably the strongest fit.

Its important distinction is that it doesn't just tell you what your crawler found. Its Search Engines reporting combines Botify's crawl with server-log data showing how Google actually crawls your site. You can see things such as:

• % of URLs crawled by Google
• crawl volume
• crawl frequency
• average crawl depth
• URLs Google isn't crawling
• orphan URLs and their crawl volume
• crawl waste
• Google-vs-Botify crawl overlap
• changes across successive crawls

Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge BaseIt also supports daily, weekly, monthly, and continuously recurring scheduled crawls, so you can build an ongoing monitoring program rather than manually launching audits. Botify Knowledge Base

botify.com

I'd choose Botify if: you're dealing with hundreds of thousands/millions of URLs and the question is "Is Google spending its crawl capacity on the pages we actually care about?"

2. Oncrawl — best alternative

I'd put Oncrawl very close to Botify if log-file analysis is particularly important to you.

The interesting capability is combining your crawl data with server logs and segmenting the data in ways that let you investigate crawl behavior by things like page type, directory, template, indexability, etc.

I'd shortlist it alongside Botify for an enterprise procurement process.

3. Lumar — excellent for automated technical monitoring

Lumar is particularly compelling if your broader requirement is continuous technical SEO QA, rather than crawl-budget analytics alone.

It has cloud-based scheduling, very high crawling speeds, customizable crawls, and hundreds of built-in reports. Lumar says its crawler has reached up to 450 URLs/sec in testing. Lumar

lumar.io

4. Screaming Frog — great crawler, weaker fit for this specific requirement

Screaming Frog is fantastic for deep technical crawling, and I would absolutely use it for hands-on SEO investigations.

But if by "crawl rate and crawl budget reporting" you mean Googlebot's actual behavior over time, rather than the rate at which your SEO crawler can crawl the site, it's not my first choice. You really want server-log analysis in the mix.

The important distinction

I'd actually separate two things:

Crawler crawl rate

"How fast is my auditing software crawling my website?"

vs.

Search-engine crawl rate / crawl budget

"How frequently and how deeply is Googlebot crawling my URLs, and where is that crawl capacity being spent?"

For the second question, server logs are crucial. Botify is particularly strong because its Search Engines reporting explicitly compares its crawl against Google activity derived from your logs. Botify Knowledge Base

My recommendation by scenario

• Enterprise / 1M+ URLs: Botify
• Enterprise, especially log-analysis/data-heavy SEO: Oncrawl
• Large site + automated technical SEO QA: Lumar
• Agency / consultant / smaller budget: Screaming Frog + log analyzer
• Want strong crawl + logs without going straight to Botify: JetOctopus

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (e.g. 100K, 1M, 10M+), whether you have server-log access, and whether you need daily vs. weekly crawls, I can narrow this to 2–3 tools and compare the actual crawl-budget reports/metrics each one gives you.

2. Oncrawl — best alternative

I'd put Oncrawl very close to Botify if log-file analysis is particularly important to you.

The interesting capability is combining your crawl data with server logs and segmenting the data in ways that let you investigate crawl behavior by things like page type, directory, template, indexability, etc.

I'd shortlist it alongside Botify for an enterprise procurement process.

3. Lumar — excellent for automated technical monitoring

Lumar is particularly compelling if your broader requirement is continuous technical SEO QA, rather than crawl-budget analytics alone.

It has cloud-based scheduling, very high crawling speeds, customizable crawls, and hundreds of built-in reports. Lumar says its crawler has reached up to 450 URLs/sec in testing. Lumar

lumar.io

4. Screaming Frog — great crawler, weaker fit for this specific requirement

Screaming Frog is fantastic for deep technical crawling, and I would absolutely use it for hands-on SEO investigations.

But if by "crawl rate and crawl budget reporting" you mean Googlebot's actual behavior over time, rather than the rate at which your SEO crawler can crawl the site, it's not my first choice. You really want server-log analysis in the mix.

The important distinction

I'd actually separate two things:

Crawler crawl rate

"How fast is my auditing software crawling my website?"

vs.

Search-engine crawl rate / crawl budget

"How frequently and how deeply is Googlebot crawling my URLs, and where is that crawl capacity being spent?"

If scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting are the priorities, I’d shortlist these:

1. Botify — best overall for enterprise

• Strongest choice if you want to understand how Googlebot is actually spending crawl budget, not merely what your own crawler discovered.
• Combines site crawling with server-log analysis, showing crawl frequency, depth, errors, pages crawled vs. pages receiving organic visits, and potential crawl waste. Botify Knowledge Base Botify
• Supports recurring daily/weekly/monthly crawls and continuous recurring crawls. Botify Knowledge Base
• Particularly good for large sites where you need historical comparisons and trend reporting.
• JetOctopus — best price/functionality combination

• Excellent if you want crawler + log analysis + Google Search Console in one platform.
• Reports crawl-budget optimization, bot behavior, crawl speed, and search-engine activity; it can crawl at up to 250 pages/sec. SEO Platform
• Supports recurring scheduled crawls daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly. SEO Platform
• I'd seriously consider this for a mid-market site or agency.
• Oncrawl — best for crawl-budget analytics

• Particularly good if your objective is data-driven crawl-budget optimization rather than simply technical auditing.
• Has scheduled/recurring crawls and automated monitoring. Oncrawl Help
• Its combination of crawler, log data, and SEO analytics makes it a strong alternative to Botify.

My recommendation

The key distinction I'd make is crawler data vs. actual search-engine behavior. If by "crawl rate" you mean "How quickly is my crawler crawling the site?", almost any serious crawler can provide that. If you mean "How often, how deeply, and which URLs are Googlebot actually crawling, and how much of that is wasted?", you want log-file analysis alongside crawling. Botify's Search Engines reporting explicitly compares its crawl with server-log data to show how deeply and frequently search engines crawl the site and where crawl waste occurs. Botify Knowledge Base

For your stated requirements, I'd pick Botify first, JetOctopus second. If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (100k / 1M / 10M+) and whether you have access to server logs, I can narrow this down further and include pricing, crawl limits, API/automation capabilities, and the exact crawl-budget reports each provides.

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting, I’d shortlist these:

1. botify.com — best overall for serious crawl-budget analysis

• Lets you schedule recurring crawls daily, weekly, monthly, or continuously. Botify Knowledge Base
• Its big advantage is combining its own crawler with server log data, so you can compare what your crawler found with what Google actually crawled. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base
• Reports include % URLs crawled, crawl frequency, crawl depth, orphan-URL crawling, Google-vs-Botify crawl overlap, and cumulative Google crawl activity. Botify Knowledge Base
• This makes it my first choice if by "crawl rate" you mean actual search-engine bot behavior, rather than simply how fast your SEO crawler can request pages.
• oncrawl.com — excellent for crawl-budget/data analysis

• Particularly strong if you want to join crawl data + server logs + SEO data and analyze how Google allocates its crawl activity.
• I'd consider it alongside Botify for a large e-commerce/content site where crawl efficiency is a major SEO KPI.
• lumar.io — best enterprise technical crawler alternative

• Strong for large-scale scheduled crawling, technical SEO monitoring and automated reporting.
• I'd favor it when the broader requirement is continuous technical SEO monitoring, rather than crawl-budget analytics being the primary objective.
• sitebulb.com — best value/easier-to-use option

• Sitebulb Cloud supports recurring automated crawls and very large sites—up to 10 million URLs per audit according to its current product information. Sitebulb
• It has excellent visualization and technical SEO reporting, and its cloud version can crawl at hundreds of URLs/sec. Sitebulb
• But: I wouldn't choose it over Botify/OnCrawl if your main requirement is deep Googlebot crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting from server logs.

My recommendation

The important distinction is crawler crawl rate vs. Googlebot crawl rate. A tool can tell you "we crawled 50 URLs/second," but that's not the same thing as telling you how frequently Google crawls your pages, which sections consume Google's crawl budget, whether Google is wasting crawl activity on non-indexable URLs, and whether important URLs are being crawled sufficiently.

For that latter requirement, I'd pick Botify, specifically because its log analysis provides the actual search-engine crawl behavior rather than relying solely on your own crawler's observations. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (100K / 1M / 10M+), whether you have server-log access, and whether this is e-commerce/news/SaaS, I can narrow it down to the best 2–3 and compare pricing, scheduling, log analysis, crawl-rate reporting, API/export capabilities, and alerting.

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate telemetry + actual crawl-budget analysis, I’d shortlist these:

My pick: Botify

For your specific requirements, Botify is probably the strongest fit.

Its crawler provides real-time pages/second, bandwidth utilization, average response time, pages crawled vs. discovered, new URLs discovered per minute, and HTTP status-code statistics. You can also adjust crawl speed during a crawl. support.botify.com

More importantly, Botify lets you schedule daily, weekly, monthly, or continuously recurring crawls, and retains crawl history so you can compare analyses over time. support.botify.com

That combination makes it particularly good if you're trying to answer questions like:

• How fast is Googlebot actually crawling us?
• Are we throttling our own crawl rate?
• How many URLs are being discovered vs. crawled?
• Which sections consume disproportionate crawl activity?
• Did our crawl efficiency change after a site release?
• Is server response time limiting crawler throughput?

Botify also combines its crawler with log-file/search-engine crawl data, which is important because a third-party crawler alone can tell you how your crawler crawls the site, but not necessarily how Googlebot is allocating its crawl activity.

Lumar is my second choice

Lumar is particularly attractive if crawl throughput and operational monitoring are your biggest concerns. Its crawler reports requests/second, failure rate, and HTTP-status distributions during crawls, supports scheduled crawls, and allows different crawl speeds at different times—for example, slowing down during peak traffic and increasing speed overnight. www.lumar.io

It can reportedly crawl at extremely high rates—up to 450 URLs/sec in its published testing—and has a built-in safeguard that can automatically pause a crawl when failure rates exceed a threshold. www.lumar.io

I'd favor Lumar over Botify if the emphasis is continuous technical monitoring and protecting site infrastructure, rather than deep search-engine crawl-budget analytics.

If crawl budget is the main thing

I'd seriously consider Oncrawl or JetOctopus, particularly if you have access to server logs.

That's because there's an important distinction:

Crawler throughput ≠ Google crawl budget.

A tool crawling your site at 50 URLs/sec doesn't mean Google is crawling your site at 50 URLs/sec. To understand actual search-engine crawl budget, you ideally want to combine crawl data + Googlebot logs + Search Console data.

For a large site, I'd therefore lean toward a stack like:

Botify + Google Search Console + server logs

rather than simply running a scheduled Screaming Frog crawl every night.

Where Sitebulb fits

Sitebulb Cloud is excellent for scheduled recurring technical audits. It supports daily/weekly/monthly automated crawls and lets you compare crawl snapshots over time. It can handle up to 10 million URLs per audit in Cloud. sitebulb.com

But if your phrase "detailed crawl rate and crawl budget reporting" is the key requirement, I'd put it behind Botify/Lumar/Oncrawl. Sitebulb is more compelling for technical SEO auditing and communicating issues than for deep search-engine crawl-budget intelligence.

What I'd choose by site size

• <100k URLs: Sitebulb Cloud
• 100k–1M URLs: Lumar or Botify
• 1M+ URLs: Botify
• Huge site + serious Googlebot/log analysis: Botify or Oncrawl
• Primarily technical QA/regression monitoring: Lumar
• Best visualization / SEO-team usability: Sitebulb

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has, whether you have server/CDN logs, and whether you're specifically trying to measure Googlebot/Bingbot behavior or just your own crawler's rate, I can narrow this to 1–2 tools and explain exactly what reporting you'd get.

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting, I’d shortlist these three:

1. JetOctopus — my first choice

For your specific requirement, JetOctopus is probably the one I'd start with. It supports recurring daily/weekly/monthly crawls and provides both crawler data and log-file analysis. SEO AI Platform SEO AI Platform

The particularly useful part is that you can combine:

• Your own crawler's crawl rate — pages/sec, crawl duration, discovered URLs, etc.
• Googlebot/Bingbot log data
• Crawl-budget optimization insights
• Bot behavior over time
• Crawl comparisons between scheduled runs
• GSC data

JetOctopus says its crawler can reach up to 250 pages/sec, while its log analysis tracks bot behavior and provides crawl-budget optimization insights. SEO AI Platform

It also now has an MCP integration that can query crawl, log and GSC data and even start/schedule crawls through an AI interface. SEO AI Platform

I'd pick this if you're managing a large e-commerce/content site and want to answer questions like:
"How much of Google's crawling is going to faceted URLs, 3xxs, thin pages, or low-value templates, and is that changing week over week?"

2. Botify — best for serious enterprise crawling

If you're dealing with millions or tens of millions of URLs, I'd seriously consider Botify.

Its big advantage is the combination of SiteCrawler + LogAnalyzer. LogAnalyzer uses actual server logs to measure search-engine bot activity, including crawl counts by day. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

Botify also gives you real-time crawler statistics such as:

• pages/sec
• bandwidth utilization
• average response time
• crawled vs. discovered URLs
• URLs discovered per minute
• HTTP status codes
• historical crawl comparisons

Botify Knowledge BaseAnd recurring crawls can be scheduled daily, weekly or monthly, including continuous recurring crawls. Botify Knowledge Base

Botify would be my choice over JetOctopus if the site is extremely large and you need enterprise-grade log analysis, segmentation and integrations.

3. Oncrawl — excellent alternative

Oncrawl is particularly strong if you want to combine technical crawling with log-file analysis and SEO datasets. Its Log Analyzer analyzes actual server logs to understand Googlebot, Bingbot and AI crawler behavior, including crawl patterns and frequency. Oncrawl

It also supports scheduled recurring crawls, with configurable crawl profiles, date/time and timezone. Oncrawl Help

One important distinction

If by "crawl rate" you mean how fast your SEO crawler crawls the website, all three are good.

If you mean "How aggressively is Googlebot actually crawling my website, and where is Google's crawl budget going?", you really want server-log analysis rather than just a crawler.

That's because your crawler can tell you:

"I crawled 500,000 URLs at 40 pages/sec."

But your logs can tell you:

"Googlebot requested 82,000 URLs this week; 31% were parameterized URLs, 12% were 404s, 18% were duplicate product URLs, and only 39% were canonical/indexable pages."

That's the data I'd use for actual crawl-budget optimization. Botify explicitly describes its Search Engines reporting as comparing your site's crawl with how search engines actually saw it through server logs, including crawl frequency, depth, errors and uncrawled pages. Botify Knowledge Base

My ranking for your use case

1. JetOctopus — best balance of detailed crawl + logs + scheduling + usability
2. Botify — best for enterprise-scale sites and sophisticated log analysis
3. Oncrawl — very strong analytical alternative

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (e.g. 100K, 1M, 10M+) and whether you have access to server/CDN logs, I can narrow this down substantially and compare pricing, crawl limits, API/reporting, scheduling, log retention, and the specific crawl-budget metrics each exposes.

If your priority is scheduled site crawls + detailed crawl-rate and crawl-budget reporting, I would focus less on traditional SEO audit tools and more on enterprise technical SEO platforms that combine crawlers with log-file analysis. Crawl budget is best understood by comparing what search engines actually crawl (server logs) against what your crawler finds. Search Engine Journal

My recommendations:

My shortlist by use case

If you manage millions of URLs

1. Botify — best overall for crawl budget optimization - Googlebot vs. site crawl comparison
2. Log file analysis
3. Crawl waste detection
4. Crawl demand vs. crawl capacity analysis

Shev Dilay1. JetOctopus — strong alternative with very transparent crawl/log dashboards - Bot activity tracking

• Historical crawl analysis
• GSC integration
• Large-scale crawling

Tech SEO Platform### If you need scheduled technical monitoring

Lumar is probably the cleanest operational choice:

• recurring crawls
• regression detection
• alerts when templates break
• stakeholder dashboards

Shev Dilay CrawlBudget### If you need developer-facing reporting

I would look for:

• crawl frequency by URL type
• response-code distribution
• crawl depth changes
• orphan pages
• canonical/indexation conflicts
• bot hit distribution from logs
• crawl waste by parameter/faceted URLs
• Googlebot activity before/after releases

What I would avoid for this specific requirement

General SEO suites like rank trackers are usually weaker here. They may show "site health" scores but often cannot answer:

• "How many URLs did Googlebot crawl yesterday?"
• "Which sections consume 80% of crawl budget?"
• "Is Google crawling low-value URLs instead of revenue pages?"

For a serious crawl-budget program, I would pick:

• Enterprise ecommerce/news site: Botify
• Large but cost-conscious technical SEO team: JetOctopus
• Multi-brand enterprise governance: Lumar
• Under ~100k URLs: Screaming Frog + a log analyzer may be enough

If you share your approximate site size (10k / 100k / 1M+ URLs), CMS (Magento, WordPress, custom, etc.), and whether you have server log access, I can narrow this down.

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate data + actual Google crawl-budget analysis, I’d shortlist these:

1. Botify — my first choice

botify.com

For exactly what you're describing, Botify is probably the strongest fit.

Its important distinction is that it doesn't just tell you how your own crawler crawled the site. Its Search Engines reporting combines your crawl with server-log data, letting you see how Google and other search engines actually crawl the site. Botify reports on things such as how much of the site Google explored, crawl depth, crawl frequency, errors, and pages Google isn't crawling. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

It also has unusually good operational crawl monitoring: live pages/second, bandwidth utilization, response time, pages crawled vs. discovered, URLs discovered per minute, and HTTP status codes. Botify Knowledge Base

And recurring crawls can be scheduled daily, weekly, monthly, or continuously, which is useful for monitoring large sites. Botify Knowledge Base

I'd choose Botify if: you're managing hundreds of thousands/millions of URLs and the question is essentially "How efficiently is Google spending its crawl capacity on my site?"

2. Oncrawl — excellent alternative

oncrawl.com

Oncrawl is probably my second choice, particularly if log-file analysis is central to your workflow.

It supports recurring scheduled crawls, including weekly/monthly schedules, and has an API for managing scheduled crawls. Oncrawl Help Oncrawl Developer

The major advantage is its combination of technical crawling + log-file analysis, allowing you to compare what your crawler discovers with what search-engine bots actually request.

I'd lean toward Oncrawl if you want deep SEO data analysis and dashboards without necessarily going as far into the enterprise platform territory of Botify.

3. Lumar — best if crawl execution itself matters

lumar.io

Lumar is particularly impressive for very large sites and high-frequency crawling. Its crawler can reach very high rates—Lumar currently advertises up to 450 URLs/sec non-rendered and 350 URLs/sec rendered. Lumar

It also exposes crawl-progress information such as requests per second, failure rate, and status-code counts, and lets you schedule crawls at particular times and speeds. Lumar Lumar

I'd choose Lumar when your primary requirement is massive, fast, repeatable technical crawling, rather than making Google crawl-budget analysis the centerpiece.

My recommendation

If I were evaluating them specifically for your wording:

Botify > Oncrawl > Lumar > Screaming Frog

But there's an important distinction:

• If by "crawl rate" you mean how fast my auditing crawler is hitting the site → Lumar or Botify
• If you mean how often Googlebot is actually crawling my URLs → Botify or Oncrawl
• If you mean crawl budget — Googlebot's crawl activity, wasted crawling, discovered-but-not-crawled URLs, crawl frequency, crawl depth, etc. → Botify is the one I'd look at first
• If you want scheduled technical audits plus log analysis and historical comparisons → Botify/Oncrawl
• If you want very high-volume crawling and granular crawler controls → Lumar

One thing I'd specifically avoid is choosing a tool solely because it advertises a fast crawler. Your crawler's requests/sec and Google's crawl rate are two very different metrics. For actual crawl-budget optimization, you want server-log data + Google Search Console data + your own crawl data in the same analytical environment. Botify is particularly strong at that combination. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (e.g. 100K, 1M, 10M+) and whether you have access to server logs, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 options and compare pricing, crawl limits, scheduling, log analysis, API/reporting, and crawl-budget metrics.

Its important distinction is that it doesn't just tell you how your own crawler crawled the site. Its Search Engines reporting combines your crawl with server-log data, letting you see how Google and other search engines actually crawl the site. Botify reports on things such as how much of the site Google explored, crawl depth, crawl frequency, errors, and pages Google isn't crawling. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

It also has unusually good operational crawl monitoring: live pages/second, bandwidth utilization, response time, pages crawled vs. discovered, URLs discovered per minute, and HTTP status codes. Botify Knowledge Base

And recurring crawls can be scheduled daily, weekly, monthly, or continuously, which is useful for monitoring large sites. Botify Knowledge Base

I'd choose Botify if: you're managing hundreds of thousands/millions of URLs and the question is essentially "How efficiently is Google spending its crawl capacity on my site?"

2. Oncrawl — excellent alternative

oncrawl.com

Oncrawl is probably my second choice, particularly if log-file analysis is central to your workflow.

It supports recurring scheduled crawls, including weekly/monthly schedules, and has an API for managing scheduled crawls. help.oncrawl.com developer.oncrawl.com

The major advantage is its combination of technical crawling + log-file analysis, allowing you to compare what your crawler discovers with what search-engine bots actually request.

I'd lean toward Oncrawl if you want deep SEO data analysis and dashboards without necessarily going as far into the enterprise platform territory of Botify.

3. Lumar — best if crawl execution itself matters

lumar.io

Lumar is particularly impressive for very large sites and high-frequency crawling. Its crawler can reach very high rates—Lumar currently advertises up to 450 URLs/sec non-rendered and 350 URLs/sec rendered.

It also exposes crawl-progress information such as requests per second, failure rate, and status-code counts, and lets you schedule crawls at particular times and speeds.

I'd choose Lumar when your primary requirement is massive, fast, repeatable technical crawling, rather than making Google crawl-budget analysis the centerpiece.

My recommendation

If your priority is scheduled crawling + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting, I’d narrow the field to Botify, JetOctopus, and Oncrawl, with Botify as my overall pick for a large/enterprise site.

My ranking

1. botify.com — best overall for crawl-budget intelligence

This is the one I'd choose if crawl budget is a major KPI rather than just another technical SEO metric.

Botify combines its own crawler with server-log data and Google Search Console data, allowing you to compare what your crawler discovers against what Googlebot actually crawls. Its reporting includes accessibility, HTTP status, internal links, distribution, search-engine activity, etc. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

It also has particularly good recurring crawl scheduling: daily, weekly, monthly, or continuous recurring crawls. Botify Knowledge Base

The important distinction is that Botify can answer questions such as:

• How many URLs are Googlebot crawling per day?
• How is Googlebot's crawl activity changing over time?
• Which URL types consume the most crawl activity?
• What percentage of crawled URLs are valuable/indexable?
• Where is Googlebot wasting crawl activity?
• Are changes to robots.txt, canonicals, internal linking, faceted navigation, etc. changing Google's crawling behavior?
• How does the crawl discovered by Botify compare with actual search-engine activity?

Downside: it's an enterprise product, so expect enterprise pricing and implementation complexity.

2. jetoctopus.com — probably the best fit for what you described

I'd put JetOctopus very close to Botify, and potentially ahead of it if usability/value matter more than having the broadest enterprise SEO platform.

Its current platform combines:

• full-site crawling
• real-time bot logs
• Google Search Console
• crawl-budget analysis
• Googlebot behavior analysis
• scheduled/tunable crawls
• segmentation and filtering
• historical reporting

Its Log Analyzer specifically shows which pages Google and other bots crawl, what they prioritize, and where crawl budget is being wasted. Tech SEO Platform

It also currently supports starting, scheduling, pausing and tuning crawls through its platform/MCP interface. Tech SEO Platform

I'd seriously demo this one first if your primary objective is a recurring technical SEO monitoring system rather than a giant enterprise SEO suite.

3. oncrawl.com — excellent for data-heavy crawl-budget analysis

Oncrawl is particularly compelling if you have an SEO/data team that wants to slice and correlate crawl data with server logs.

Its strength is the ability to segment crawl and log data in sophisticated ways—for example, looking at Googlebot behavior by:

• directory
• template
• HTTP status
• indexability
• page type
• organic traffic
• crawl frequency
• internal linking characteristics

It's a strong choice if you want to get beyond "here are 14,000 crawl errors" and instead build an analytical model of how Google allocates its crawling across the site.

4. lumar.io — excellent enterprise crawler, slightly less crawl-budget-centric

Lumar (formerly DeepCrawl) is excellent for continuous technical SEO monitoring and enterprise-scale crawling. I'd favor it if your requirement is broader than crawl budget—for example, technical SEO, accessibility, JavaScript rendering, site quality and automated monitoring.

For specifically answering "How efficiently is Google spending its crawl capacity on my site?", I'd still favor Botify/JetOctopus/Oncrawl because of their emphasis on combining crawl data with actual bot-log behavior.

One important distinction

There's a subtle but important difference between crawl rate and crawl budget.

A crawler like Screaming Frog can tell you:

"I crawled 500,000 URLs and found X."

But what you really want for crawl-budget optimization is:

"Googlebot crawled 87,000 URLs this week; 31% were parameterized URLs, 18% returned redirects, 12% were non-indexable, and only 39% were valuable/indexable URLs."

For that second type of analysis, server logs are extremely important. Botify, JetOctopus and Oncrawl are much better suited to it than traditional desktop crawlers. Botify explicitly integrates daily server-log data alongside its crawl data. Botify Knowledge Base

What I'd buy

If this is a large site (500K+ URLs):

1. JetOctopus — my first demo for the combination of reporting, logs, crawling and crawl-budget analysis.
2. Botify — my first demo if you're an enterprise SEO organization and budget isn't the primary constraint.
3. Oncrawl — especially if your SEO team is analytically sophisticated and wants to export/model the data.

If you're under ~500K URLs: I'd also look hard at Screaming Frog + Log File Analyser, especially if you don't need a cloud-based always-on monitoring system.

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has, how frequently you want crawls (daily/weekly), and whether you have access to server logs, I can give you a much more specific recommendation—including which one has the best crawl-budget dashboards and what metrics I'd configure for the recurring report.

There's a subtle but important difference between crawl rate and crawl budget.

A crawler like Screaming Frog can tell you:

"I crawled 500,000 URLs and found X."

But what you really want for crawl-budget optimization is:

"Googlebot crawled 87,000 URLs this week; 31% were parameterized URLs, 18% returned redirects, 12% were non-indexable, and only 39% were valuable/indexable URLs."

For that second type of analysis, server logs are extremely important. Botify, JetOctopus and Oncrawl are much better suited to it than traditional desktop crawlers. Botify explicitly integrates daily server-log data alongside its crawl data.

What I'd buy

If this is a large site (500K+ URLs):

If you need scheduled site crawls plus detailed crawl-rate and crawl-budget reporting, I would focus less on traditional SEO audit tools and more on platforms that combine:

• Scheduled/cloud crawling
• Server log analysis (what Googlebot actually crawled)
• Crawl budget waste analysis
• URL-level bot behavior
• Indexability reporting
• Historical comparisons and alerts

My shortlist:

Shev Dilay SharkPlatform## My recommendations by scenario

1. Enterprise site (500k+ URLs, ecommerce, marketplace, publisher)

Pick: Botify

Botify is the one I would evaluate first when the requirement is specifically crawl budget reporting. Its strength is combining a simulated crawl of your site with server log analysis, showing the difference between:

• URLs you want crawled
• URLs Googlebot actually crawls
• Crawl waste (parameters, duplicates, traps)
• Crawl frequency by directory/template
• Bot activity trends over time

CrawlBudget Amos WeiskopfTypical reports you would want:

• Googlebot hits by URL type
• Crawl frequency by template
• Crawl budget spent on non-indexable pages
• Response code distribution
• Crawl depth vs crawl frequency
• Orphan URLs receiving bot hits
• New vs removed URL discovery trends

2. Enterprise SEO monitoring with scheduled audits

Pick: Lumar

Lumar (formerly DeepCrawl) is excellent if your priority is recurring technical health monitoring:

• Weekly/daily scheduled crawls
• Crawl comparisons
• Regression detection
• JavaScript rendering
• Multi-site dashboards
• Issue tracking workflows

Shev Dilay CrawlBudgetIt is especially good for teams that need to answer:

"What changed between last month and this month?"

3. Strong value option for crawl + log reporting

Pick: JetOctopus

JetOctopus is worth considering if you want a modern interface combining:

• Large-scale crawling
• Googlebot log analysis
• Search Console data
• Segmentation
• Dashboards

Tech SEO PlatformIt is often a good middle ground between expensive enterprise suites and DIY tooling.

4. Technical SEO team that wants maximum control

Pick: Screaming Frog + log analyzer + BI dashboard

A common stack is:

• Screaming Frog for scheduled crawls
• Server log pipeline (BigQuery/Elastic/etc.)
• Looker Studio or Power BI dashboards

This gives very deep control but requires engineering effort. SharkPlatform

What I would avoid for this specific requirement

Tools like Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz, etc. are useful SEO platforms, but if your core question is:

"How is Googlebot spending crawl budget on my site?"

they generally are not as deep as dedicated crawl-budget platforms because they are not primarily built around first-party server log analysis. Ahrefs SEOlinkbuilding.ai

My practical ranking

1. Botify — best crawl budget intelligence
2. Lumar — best enterprise crawl monitoring workflow
3. JetOctopus — best cost/value for crawl + logs
4. Screaming Frog stack — best technical control
5. Semrush/Ahrefs — best if crawl reporting is only one part of a broader SEO program

If you tell me your approximate site size (e.g., 50k, 500k, 5M+ URLs), CMS (Shopify, Magento, WordPress, custom, etc.), and whether you have server log access, I can narrow this to the best fit.

"How is Googlebot spending crawl budget on my site?"

they generally are not as deep as dedicated crawl-budget platforms because they are not primarily built around first-party server log analysis.

My practical ranking

If scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting are the priority, I’d shortlist these:

My recommendation: JetOctopus

For the specific requirement you gave, JetOctopus would be my first choice.

It combines:

• Scheduled/automated crawls
• Full-site crawling at very large scale
• Server-log analysis
• Googlebot crawl-frequency analysis
• Crawl-budget analysis
• Google Search Console data
• GA4 data
• Segmentation by URL type, status, templates, etc.
• Historical crawl comparisons
• Reporting on which URLs Googlebot actually crawls, rather than merely what your crawler can discover

Its current platform specifically combines full-site crawling, real-time bot logs and 16+ months of GSC data. It also advertises crawling at 1M+ pages/day and no crawl cap on its enterprise offering. jetoctopus.com

That's important because a normal SEO crawler isn't actually measuring Google's crawl budget. It is measuring your crawler's crawl behavior. To understand Google's real crawl rate and budget consumption, you want Googlebot server-log data + GSC Crawl Stats + your own crawl data.

If you want the best reporting UX: Sitebulb Cloud

Sitebulb Cloud would be my second choice.

It's particularly attractive if your goal is recurring technical SEO reporting rather than extremely deep log analysis. Sitebulb Cloud supports recurring background audits, large-scale crawling, collaboration and automated reporting. It currently advertises up to 10M URLs per audit and recurring audits. sitebulb.com

I'd pick it over JetOctopus if your primary question is:

"What changed on the site between this week's crawl and last week's, and can I turn that into a report stakeholders will understand?"

I'd pick JetOctopus if it's:

"How much is Googlebot crawling, what is it crawling, what is it wasting crawl capacity on, and how do I correlate that with our crawl?"

Botify / OnCrawl

For a large enterprise SEO team, I'd also evaluate Botify and OnCrawl.

Botify is particularly strong when log-file analysis is central to the operation. It supports recurring crawl schedules (daily, weekly, monthly and continuous recurring crawls), and its reporting can combine crawl, log, GSC and analytics data. support.botify.com

One important distinction

If by "crawl rate and crawl budget reporting" you mean actual Google crawling, I'd structure the stack like this:

Crawler
→ JetOctopus / Botify / OnCrawl

+ Server logs
→ actual Googlebot requests, URLs, frequency, response codes, wasted crawling

+ Google Search Console
→ Google's own Crawl Stats data

Google's Crawl Stats report gives total crawl requests, download size, average response time, host status, response types, file types, crawl purpose and Googlebot type. jetoctopus.comsupport.botify.comsupport.google.com

That combination is substantially more useful than simply scheduling a Screaming Frog crawl every night.

My ranking for your use case

1. JetOctopus — best fit if crawl budget is the core requirement
2. Botify — best for sophisticated enterprise log analysis
3. OnCrawl — excellent for analytical crawl-budget work
4. Sitebulb Cloud — best usability/reporting + strong scheduled crawling
5. Screaming Frog — fantastic crawler, but I'd pair it with separate log analysis if crawl budget is the goal

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (e.g. 100K / 1M / 10M+) and whether you have access to server logs, I can narrow this down to the best 1–2 options and compare their scheduled-crawl, crawl-rate, Googlebot/log, historical reporting, API and pricing capabilities.

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting, I’d narrow it to Botify, JetOctopus, and Lumar, with Botify as my first choice for serious crawl-budget analysis.

1. botify.com — my top pick

If by "crawl budget reporting" you mean "show me what Googlebot actually did with my site, how often it crawled different URL classes, what it ignored, and where we're wasting crawl capacity", Botify is probably the strongest fit.

Its Search Engines reporting combines your crawler data with server-log data and can show things such as:

• Percentage of your URLs crawled by Google
• Crawl frequency
• Crawl depth
• URLs Google crawled vs. didn't crawl
• Orphan URLs and how much Google crawls them
• Crawl activity by indexability
• Cumulative Google crawl activity over time
• Comparison between Botify's crawl and Google's actual crawl behavior Botify Knowledge Base

It also supports daily, weekly, monthly, or continuously recurring crawls, so it works well as an ongoing monitoring system rather than simply an audit tool. Botify Knowledge Base

The big differentiator is that Botify lets you combine crawl data + server logs + GSC data. That's important because a conventional crawler tells you what your crawler discovered, whereas crawl-budget analysis needs to tell you what Googlebot actually spent its time crawling. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base

I'd choose Botify if: you're managing millions of URLs, a large ecommerce/content site, faceted navigation, large numbers of parameter URLs, or you need executive-level reporting on Googlebot behavior.

2. jetoctopus.com — probably the best value

JetOctopus is the one I'd investigate first if Botify feels unnecessarily enterprise-oriented.

It combines:

• Cloud crawling
• Log-file analysis
• Googlebot/Bingbot behavior
• Crawl-budget optimization
• Crawl scheduling
• Crawl comparisons
• Segmentation
• GSC data
• Analysis of 40+ bots

Its current offering specifically advertises crawl-budget optimization insights and live log analysis, while its crawler can run at up to 250 pages/sec. Tech SEO Platform

The particularly useful thing is the crawl + logs correlation. For example, you can answer questions like:

"Googlebot is spending 38% of its crawl activity on URLs that aren't indexable."

That's considerably more useful than simply knowing that your crawler encountered 38,000 non-indexable URLs.

JetOctopus also supports scheduled crawls and crawl comparisons. Tech SEO Platform

I'd choose JetOctopus if: you're in the ~100K–several-million-URL range and want detailed technical data without necessarily buying a full enterprise SEO platform.

3. lumar.io — best for enterprise monitoring

Lumar (formerly DeepCrawl) is excellent if your primary requirement is continuous technical SEO monitoring.

It's particularly strong for:

• Scheduled/continuous crawling
• Large sites
• JavaScript rendering
• Regression detection
• Automated alerts
• Technical SEO monitoring
• Enterprise workflows/API integration

I'd put it behind Botify for your specific requirement, though, because crawl-budget analysis based on actual search-engine behavior is where Botify's log-analysis capabilities give it a meaningful advantage.

4. sitebulb.com — excellent reporting, less crawl-budget-centric

Sitebulb is fantastic for technical SEO reporting and visualization. Its cloud version can crawl up to 10 million URLs per audit, supports scheduled crawls, and provides extensive visualization and reporting. Sitebulb

Its strength is answering:

"What's wrong with my site and how do I communicate it clearly?"

rather than:

"Exactly how is Googlebot allocating its crawl budget?"

So I'd favor Sitebulb for technical SEO auditing/reporting, but Botify or JetOctopus for crawl-budget intelligence.

What I'd actually buy

I'd make the decision this way:

• Enterprise / millions of URLs / serious crawl-budget program → Botify
• Mid-market / large site / want logs + crawl data without going full enterprise → JetOctopus
• Enterprise technical SEO monitoring and regression detection → Lumar
• Primarily technical audits and polished reporting → Sitebulb Cloud
• Need maximum crawler control and don't need integrated Googlebot log analysis → Screaming Frog

One important distinction: "crawl rate" and "crawl budget" aren't quite the same thing. A crawler can tell you how fast your crawler is crawling. To understand Google's crawl budget, you really want server-log data showing Googlebot requests over time, ideally segmented by URL type, status code, indexability, content type, directory, parameters, etc. Botify and JetOctopus are much better suited to that than conventional crawlers. Botify Knowledge Base Tech SEO Platform

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (e.g. 100K, 1M, 10M+) and whether you have access to server logs, I can recommend the specific platform and the crawl-budget dashboard/metrics I'd set up.

"What's wrong with my site and how do I communicate it clearly?"

rather than:

"Exactly how is Googlebot allocating its crawl budget?"

So I'd favor Sitebulb for technical SEO auditing/reporting, but Botify or JetOctopus for crawl-budget intelligence.

What I'd actually buy

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting, I’d shortlist these:

My #1: JetOctopus

For the specific requirement you described, JetOctopus is probably the one I'd evaluate first.

The important distinction is that there are really two different kinds of “crawl rate”:

1. Your crawler's crawl rate — e.g. how quickly JetOctopus/Screaming Frog crawls your site.
2. Googlebot's crawl behavior — how many URLs Google actually requests, how frequently, which sections it favors, response codes, wasted crawling, etc.

If you're interested in crawl budget, #2 is what matters. JetOctopus combines its site crawler with real-time server-log analysis, allowing you to see what Googlebot and other bots actually do. It also combines crawl, log, GSC and GA4 data. jetoctopus.com

That makes it particularly good for questions like:

• How many Googlebot requests are we getting per day?
• Which URL types consume the most crawl budget?
• What percentage of Googlebot crawling returns 2xx/3xx/4xx/5xx?
• How much crawling is going to parameter URLs, faceted navigation, duplicate pages, etc.?
• Which pages are in our XML sitemap but rarely/never crawled?
• Is Googlebot spending its time on low-value URLs?
• Did crawl behavior change after a site release?
• How does Googlebot's behavior differ from GPTBot, ClaudeBot, etc.?

JetOctopus currently advertises real-time bot logs, full-site crawls, 16+ months of GSC data, and large-scale crawling, including very large sites. jetoctopus.com

Runner-up: OnCrawl

I'd put OnCrawl ahead of JetOctopus if your SEO team is particularly data/analytics-oriented.

Its strength is combining crawl data + log files + search data and allowing sophisticated segmentation and analysis. It's particularly interesting if you want to build your own models around things such as:

Googlebot visits → indexation → rankings → organic traffic

rather than just looking at a conventional technical SEO dashboard.

Enterprise option: Lumar

I'd look at Lumar if you're dealing with a large enterprise site and want scheduled crawling, monitoring, change detection, workflows and governance across a sizeable SEO/dev organization.

It's more of an enterprise technical-SEO monitoring platform than simply a crawl-budget analytics tool.

Don't overlook Google Search Console

I'd actually use Google Search Console Crawl Stats alongside whichever crawler you choose.

Google's Crawl Stats report gives you Google's own data on crawl requests, timing, response codes and availability issues. That's substantially more authoritative for Googlebot behavior than any third-party crawler can be. support.google.com

The ideal architecture is therefore:

Crawler → discovers/diagnoses everything on the site
Server logs → tells you what Googlebot actually crawled
GSC Crawl Stats → Google's first-party aggregate crawl data
GSC indexing data → tells you what Google indexed

Where Sitebulb fits

Sitebulb Cloud is excellent if what you really want is beautiful scheduled technical SEO audits and change reporting. Cloud supports crawls up to 10M URLs and scheduled recurring crawls. sitebulb.com

But there's an important limitation for your particular use case: Sitebulb doesn't currently provide log-file analysis. sitebulb.com

So I'd choose Sitebulb over JetOctopus if your primary question is:

“What technical SEO problems changed between this month's crawl and last month's?”

I'd choose JetOctopus/OnCrawl if it's:

“How is Googlebot actually spending our crawl budget?”

What I'd buy

Under ~100K URLs:
Sitebulb Cloud + GSC is probably sufficient.

100K–1M URLs:
JetOctopus would be my first trial.

1M+ URLs / sophisticated enterprise SEO:
I'd demo JetOctopus, OnCrawl and Lumar against the same dataset.

If crawl budget is a major strategic issue:
Don't buy a crawler that only gives you crawl reports. Make server-log analysis a hard requirement. A scheduled crawl tells you what your crawler found; logs tell you what Googlebot actually spent its time crawling. JetOctopus and OnCrawl are much better aligned with that distinction. jetoctopus.com

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (100K / 1M / 10M+), whether you have access to server/CDN logs, and whether this is one site or a portfolio, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 options and compare their crawl scheduling, crawl-budget dashboards, log ingestion, alerting, API/BI exports, and likely cost.

If your priority is specifically scheduled site crawls + detailed crawl-rate data + crawl-budget analysis, I’d narrow the field considerably.

My top picks

1. botify.com — best overall

• Strongest fit if you want to understand how search engines crawl your site, not just find technical SEO errors.
• Supports recurring daily/weekly/monthly crawls and continuous crawling. Botify Knowledge Base Botify Knowledge Base
• Gives real-time crawl speed (URLs/sec), bandwidth utilization, response time, URLs crawled vs. discovered, URL discovery rate, and HTTP-status trends. Botify Knowledge Base
• Particularly good when combined with server log data + Google Search Console, allowing you to compare what your crawler sees with what Googlebot actually does. Botify Knowledge Base
• You can control maximum URLs, crawl speed, and crawl depth. Botify Knowledge Base

I'd choose this for an enterprise site where crawl budget is a serious SEO KPI.

2. lumar.io — best for enterprise technical SEO monitoring

• Excellent for scheduled/continuous crawling and large sites.
• Particularly attractive if you want segmentation, automated monitoring, JavaScript crawling, alerts, and integrations in addition to crawl analysis.
• I'd put it ahead of Botify if your primary objective is broad technical SEO governance, rather than deep crawl-budget/log analysis.
• oncrawl.com — best for crawl-budget + log-file analysis

• Worth serious consideration if the question you're really asking is: "Where is Googlebot spending its crawl activity, and where is it wasting it?"
• Its strength is combining crawler data with server logs and search data to analyze crawl behavior.
• I'd particularly consider it for very large ecommerce/publishing sites with millions of URLs.
• screamingfrog.co.uk — best value / hands-on crawler

• Extremely powerful crawler, and it supports scheduled crawls at chosen intervals. Screaming Frog
• Scheduled jobs can export crawl data and time-series summaries to Google Sheets/Looker Studio. Screaming Frog
• But it's fundamentally more of a crawler/audit tool than a complete crawl-budget intelligence platform.
• For actual Googlebot crawl-budget analysis, I'd pair it with server logs + GSC, rather than relying on Screaming Frog alone.

How I'd choose

One important distinction

There's a big difference between crawl rate and crawl budget.

A crawler such as Screaming Frog can tell you something like:

"Our crawler processed 12 URLs/sec and found 1.8M URLs."

But for crawl-budget work, you ideally want:

"Googlebot requested 420K URLs this month; 31% were parameter URLs, 18% were duplicate/near-duplicate pages, 7% returned 3xx/4xx, and Google spent X% of its crawl activity on URLs that aren't indexable."

That's where Botify/Oncrawl + server logs + GSC become much more compelling.

Botify in particular lets you combine crawl data with server logs, GSC, visits, conversions, and Core Web Vitals, and its reporting can compare successive crawls historically. Botify Knowledge Base

If you tell me roughly how big the site is (e.g. 100K, 1M, 10M+ URLs) and whether you have access to server logs, I can recommend the best 2–3 options and explain the exact crawl-budget reports each one gives you.

If your priority is specifically scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate data + crawl-budget reporting, I’d shortlist Botify, Lumar, and Sitebulb Cloud—with Botify as my first choice if crawl-budget analysis is the main requirement.

1. Botify — my recommendation

Botify is the one I'd investigate first if by crawl budget you mean Googlebot behavior and how efficiently Google is spending its crawl resources on your site, rather than simply "how many URLs did my crawler crawl."

Its SiteCrawler gives you detailed crawl statistics, including pages crawled, discovered URLs, crawl speed, bandwidth utilization, response times, new URLs discovered over time, and HTTP-status distributions. support.botify.com

It also supports daily, weekly, monthly, and continuous recurring crawls, with historical crawl reports for comparing performance over time. support.botify.com

A particularly useful feature is that you can adjust crawl speed, depth, and URL limits while a crawl is running, which is valuable if you're monitoring infrastructure impact as well as SEO. support.botify.com

Botify

I'd choose Botify if: you're working on a large site and want to connect technical crawling with actual search-engine crawl behavior/log data.

2. Lumar

Lumar is probably the closest competitor for this use case.

It can schedule crawls at specific times and speeds, including controlling the URLs-per-second crawl rate. It also supports recurring schedules ranging from hourly through monthly. www.lumar.io

Its crawler is designed for very large sites and reports crawl speeds as high as 450 URLs/second under appropriate conditions. It also provides 350+ built-in reports and custom metrics. www.lumar.io

Lumar

I'd choose Lumar if: you want extremely robust enterprise crawling/monitoring, lots of customizable reporting, and sophisticated crawl controls, but don't necessarily need Botify's deeper crawl-budget/log-analysis ecosystem.

3. Sitebulb Cloud

Sitebulb Cloud is the one I'd look at if you want something considerably easier to operate and more approachable for SEO teams.

It supports daily, weekly, and monthly automated crawls, running in the cloud without your computer being on. sitebulb.com

Its strength is reporting: visualizations, prioritized findings, historical comparisons, and stakeholder-friendly reporting. Cloud plans can also handle millions of URLs. sitebulb.com

Sitebulb Cloud

I'd choose Sitebulb if: your primary objective is technical SEO monitoring and reporting, and "crawl budget" doesn't require deep analysis of Googlebot's actual behavior.

The important distinction

There's a potentially important difference in what you're asking for:

A. Crawler performance

"How fast did my crawler crawl the site?"

You want metrics like:

• URLs/sec
• response time
• bandwidth
• crawl duration
• HTTP status distribution
• URLs discovered vs. crawled
• crawl depth
• server load

B. Search-engine crawl budget

"How is Googlebot actually allocating its crawl resources across my site?"

You want:

• Googlebot requests over time
• Googlebot crawl rate
• crawl frequency by URL type/template
• response codes Googlebot encounters
• crawl activity by directory
• wasted crawling
• parameter/duplicate URL crawling
• crawl demand vs. crawl capacity
• crawl budget consumed by low-value URLs
• changes in Googlebot behavior over time

For B, I'd strongly favor Botify, particularly if you can feed it server log data. A normal SEO crawler can tell you what your crawler experienced, but it doesn't necessarily tell you what Googlebot actually did.

My ranking for your specific requirement

If I were buying today:

1. Botify — best for serious crawl-budget intelligence
2. Lumar — best enterprise crawler/monitoring alternative
3. Sitebulb Cloud — best balance of automation, reporting, and cost
4. Screaming Frog — excellent crawler, but I'd supplement it rather than use it as the core scheduled crawl-budget monitoring platform

If you tell me roughly how big the site is (e.g. 100K, 1M, 10M+ URLs) and whether you have server/CDN log access, I can narrow this down substantially and compare the actual crawl-budget reporting capabilities of Botify vs. Lumar vs. Sitebulb.

If your priority is scheduled site crawls plus detailed crawl-rate and crawl-budget reporting, I would focus less on general SEO suites and more on enterprise technical SEO crawlers that combine crawl data with server log analysis. Crawl budget is best measured from Googlebot/server behavior, not just from a crawler spidering your site.

My shortlist:

My recommendations by scenario

1. Enterprise site (500k+ URLs, ecommerce, marketplace, publishing)

• Choose: JetOctopus, Botify, or Oncrawl
• Required features:
  • Googlebot log analysis
  • Crawl frequency by directory/template
  • Hits vs indexed pages
  • Wasted crawl detection
  • Crawl depth analysis
  • URL discovery paths
  • Historical crawl comparisons

2. SEO agency managing many clients

• Choose: Lumar or JetOctopus
• Look for:
  • Scheduled recurring crawls
  • White-label reporting
  • API exports
  • Alerts when crawl health changes

3. Technical SEO team that wants the deepest crawl-budget view

• I would rank:
  1. JetOctopus
  2. Botify
  3. Oncrawl
  4. Lumar

Metrics I would expect the platform to report

A serious crawl-budget dashboard should include:

• Googlebot requests/day
• Crawl rate changes over time
• Average response time by URL type
• Server errors consuming crawl budget
• Redirect crawl waste
• Parameter URL waste
• Crawl allocation by folder/template
• Pages crawled but not indexed
• Indexed pages rarely crawled
• Orphan URLs discovered by bots
• Crawl depth distribution
• Internal link efficiency
• Sitemap crawl efficiency

One important distinction: tools like Screaming Frog, Semrush Site Audit, and similar crawlers tell you how your site can be crawled. Tools like JetOctopus/Botify/Oncrawl tell you how search engines actually crawl it through logs and bot data. For crawl-budget work, the second category is usually what you want. gitnux.orgjetoctopus.com

If you tell me your approximate site size (e.g., 50k, 500k, 10M+ URLs) and whether you have server log access, I can narrow this down to a top 1–2 choices.

If scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting are the priorities, I’d shortlist these:

🥇 My pick: JetOctopus

For what you're describing, JetOctopus would probably be my first choice. It combines full-site crawling with real-time bot-log analysis and Search Console data, so you can get much closer to actual Googlebot crawl behavior rather than simply measuring how your own crawler traversed the site. Its current platform specifically exposes crawl-budget and bot-behavior analysis, and its enterprise offering supports very large sites. jetoctopus.com

That's an important distinction:

A crawler's crawl rate ≠ Google's crawl rate.

If you're trying to answer questions like:

• How many URLs is Googlebot actually crawling per day?
• What percentage of Google's crawl activity is wasted on parameters, duplicates, redirects, 404s, etc.?
• Which URL types consume the crawl budget?
• How has Googlebot behavior changed week-over-week?
• Are important/indexable URLs being crawled frequently enough?
• What's the relationship between Googlebot visits, GSC impressions, and your internal crawl?
• How much crawl activity is being spent on non-HTML resources?
• What's the crawl rate by bot, directory, response code, template, or URL segment?

…log analysis is essential, and that's where JetOctopus/Botify/Lumar have an advantage over conventional SEO crawlers.

🥈 Botify — best if you're enterprise-scale

I'd choose Botify over JetOctopus if you're dealing with a very large site and have the budget for an enterprise SEO platform.

Botify provides detailed live crawl statistics including pages/second, bandwidth utilization, average response time, pages crawled vs. discovered, URLs discovered per minute, and HTTP status codes, along with historical crawl reports and comparisons. It also supports recurring schedules. support.botify.com

So if your question is specifically:

"I need to monitor how aggressively my crawler can crawl the site and how the server responds."

Botify is exceptionally strong.

If the question is:

"I need to understand how Googlebot actually spends its crawl budget."

I'd lean toward Botify or JetOctopus with log data.

🥉 Sitebulb Cloud — best if you're primarily doing technical SEO

Sitebulb Cloud is excellent for scheduled recurring technical crawls. You can schedule daily, weekly, or monthly crawls, have them run in the cloud, and compare historical audits. It can crawl up to 10M URLs per audit on Cloud. sitebulb.com

The downside for your particular requirement is significant, though: Sitebulb doesn't currently provide log-file analysis. Its own documentation says log analysis is still in the build pipeline. sitebulb.com

So I'd use Sitebulb if your reporting requirement is primarily:

"What changed on my site between crawl #1, #2, #3..."

rather than:

"How is Googlebot consuming my site's crawl budget?"

What I'd actually deploy

For a serious site, I'd structure the stack like this:

JetOctopus
→ scheduled full crawls
→ server-log ingestion
→ Googlebot/Bingbot/AI bot analysis
→ crawl-budget segmentation
→ historical trends

Google Search Console
→ Google's own crawl statistics
→ URL inspection/indexing data
→ search performance

Then I'd build a dashboard around metrics such as:

• Googlebot requests/day
• Googlebot requests/hour
• URLs crawled/day
• crawl rate (requests/sec)
• average response time
• 2xx / 3xx / 4xx / 5xx distribution
• crawl budget spent on indexable URLs
• crawl budget spent on non-indexable URLs
• parameter URL crawl percentage
• duplicate URL crawl percentage
• redirected URL crawl percentage
• orphan URL crawl activity
• Googlebot crawl frequency by directory/template
• important-page crawl frequency
• average time between crawls of important URLs
• crawl activity vs. organic traffic/impressions

If you tell me roughly how big the site is (e.g. 100K, 1M, 10M+ URLs) and whether you have access to server/CDN logs, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 options and explain exactly what each can report.

For scheduled site crawls with detailed crawl rate and crawl budget reporting, I’d separate the tools into two categories:

1. SEO crawlers (scheduled technical crawls, errors, indexability, internal linking)
2. True crawl budget platforms (Googlebot behavior, server logs, crawl allocation, waste analysis)

My recommendations:

My shortlist

1. Best overall for true crawl budget reporting: Botify

Choose this if you need answers like:

• How much of Googlebot’s crawl activity is wasted?
• Which URL groups consume crawl resources?
• How often does Google crawl important templates?
• Are parameter URLs, duplicates, redirects, or thin pages wasting crawl capacity?

Botify is probably the strongest fit for enterprise SEO teams because it combines crawls with server log analysis and Googlebot behavior data. piperocket.digital

Best for: millions of URLs, ecommerce catalogs, publishers, marketplaces.

2. Best value enterprise option: OnCrawl

OnCrawl is excellent when you want to combine:

• scheduled crawls
• log file analysis
• crawl budget dashboards
• segmentation by template/category
• linking crawl behavior to SEO performance

It is particularly useful if you have many page types and need to understand where Google spends time. www.g2.com

Best for: ecommerce, international sites, large content sites.

3. Best practical choice for most SEO teams: Sitebulb Cloud

If you want recurring crawls, technical SEO reporting, and easy-to-understand dashboards, Sitebulb Cloud is a strong option. It supports recurring audits, large-scale crawling, JavaScript crawling, and integrations with tools such as Google Search Console and GA4. sitebulb.comdg10.agency

Where it differs from Botify/OnCrawl: it is primarily a crawler and audit platform, not a Googlebot log-analysis system. dg10.agency

Best for: agencies, in-house SEO teams, sites under a few million URLs.

If your requirement is specifically "crawl rate reporting"

Make sure the tool includes server log analysis. A crawler can tell you:

• what your crawler discovered
• what pages are accessible
• technical problems

But it cannot fully tell you:

• what Googlebot actually crawled
• how often Googlebot visits sections
• crawl budget waste

For that, you need log-file ingestion.

My recommendation by scenario

• Enterprise site (5M+ URLs): Botify or Lumar
• Large ecommerce/content site: OnCrawl
• Agency managing many clients: Sitebulb Cloud
• Technical SEO specialist: Screaming Frog + log analyzer
• Need the closest thing to "Googlebot crawl budget intelligence": Botify

If you share your approximate URL count (e.g., 100k, 1M, 50M), CMS, and whether you have server log access, I can narrow this to a specific stack.

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting, I’d narrow it to Botify, Lumar, and Screaming Frog, with Botify as my first choice for serious crawl-budget analysis.

🥇 My recommendation: Botify

Botify

Botify is the strongest fit if by "crawl rate and crawl budget reporting" you mean actual search-engine behavior, rather than simply measuring how quickly your own crawler can crawl the site.

It gives you:

• Scheduled recurring crawls, including daily, weekly, monthly, and continuous recurring crawls. support.botify.com
• Real-time crawl speed in pages/second, bandwidth utilization, response time, pages crawled, pages discovered, and minute-by-minute HTTP status data. support.botify.comsupport.botify.comsupport.botify.comwww.lumar.iowww.screamingfrog.co.ukwww.screamingfrog.co.uk
• Historical crawl comparisons and crawl history. support.botify.com
• A Search Engines report that combines its crawl data with server-log information to show how Google is actually crawling your site—including crawl depth, crawl frequency, pages crawled, orphan URLs, and crawl activity. support.botify.com
• Detailed distribution/reporting around indexability, depth, HTTP status, content, etc. support.botify.com

The distinction is important: your crawler's crawl rate ≠ Google's crawl rate. Botify is particularly good because it lets you correlate your technical crawl with real Googlebot behavior from logs.

🥈 Lumar

Lumar

I'd choose Lumar if your primary goal is automated technical SEO monitoring at enterprise scale and you want polished scheduled-crawl/change reporting.

Its scheduled crawls can generate change reports, making it good for monitoring a large site over time. www.lumar.io

I'd put it behind Botify specifically for your stated requirement because crawl-budget/search-engine crawl behavior is more central to Botify's product.

🥉 Screaming Frog + Log File Analyser

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Screaming Frog Log File Analyser

This is actually a very compelling lower-cost alternative.

The important part is pairing SEO Spider with Log File Analyser. The latter can show:

• which URLs Googlebot/Bingbot crawl
• crawl frequency
• URLs crawled per day
• bot crawl events
• most/least crawled URLs and directories
• uncrawled/orphan URLs
• response codes
• crawl activity over time

That's exactly the sort of data you need to diagnose crawl-budget waste. www.screamingfrog.co.uk

SEO Spider can also schedule crawls and automate exports/reports. www.screamingfrog.co.uk

The downside is that it's more of a toolkit you assemble than the integrated enterprise platform that Botify is.

Sitebulb Cloud

Sitebulb Cloud

Sitebulb Cloud is excellent if what you really want is "crawl my sites every week and tell me what changed." It runs scheduled crawls in the cloud and provides comparable audit data across crawls. sitebulb.com

I'd choose it over Screaming Frog for ease of automated monitoring, but not over Botify when crawl budget and Googlebot behavior are the primary KPIs.

What I'd pick by scenario

Enterprise ecommerce / millions of URLs: → Botify

Large site + dedicated technical SEO team: → Botify or Lumar

Agency managing lots of sites: → Sitebulb Cloud

In-house SEO team on a reasonable budget: → Screaming Frog + Log File Analyser

Need to answer "Is Google wasting crawl budget on X?" → Botify, or Screaming Frog Log File Analyser if budget is a concern.

One other distinction I'd make before buying: if you specifically need historical Googlebot crawl rate, crawl frequency by URL/template, crawl-budget waste, Googlebot vs. your site's available crawlable inventory, and trend reporting, I'd prioritize a log-analysis-capable platform rather than choosing purely based on how sophisticated its crawler is. Botify is particularly strong in that area. support.botify.com

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (100k / 1M / 10M+) and whether you have access to server logs, I can give you a much more specific Botify vs. Lumar vs. Screaming Frog comparison, including approximate pricing and the exact reports I'd use.

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate telemetry + actual search-engine crawl-budget reporting, I’d narrow the field to Botify, JetOctopus, and Oncrawl. They’re substantially better fits than a general-purpose crawler like Screaming Frog for this particular use case.

My ranking

1. 🥇 Botify — best if crawl budget is the primary concern

This would be my first choice for a large/enterprise site.

Botify combines its SiteCrawler with LogAnalyzer, which is important because there's a distinction between:

• your crawler's crawl rate — how fast Botify can crawl your site
• Googlebot's crawl rate — how frequently Google actually crawls your site
• crawl budget utilization — where Googlebot is spending its crawl activity

Botify gives you real-time crawler statistics including pages/second, bandwidth utilization, response time, pages crawled/discovered, URLs discovered per minute, and HTTP status codes. support.botify.com

More importantly for your question, its LogAnalyzer is designed specifically around understanding how search-engine bots consume your site and identifying opportunities to reclaim crawl budget. www.botify.com

It also supports recurring crawls daily, weekly, monthly, or continuously, so it works well as an automated monitoring system rather than an occasional audit tool. www.botify.comsupport.botify.comjetoctopus.comdeveloper.oncrawl.com

I'd choose Botify if: you're dealing with hundreds of thousands/millions of URLs and want to answer questions like:

"How many URLs is Googlebot crawling every day, what types of URLs is it wasting time on, and how has that changed after our technical SEO release?"

That's exactly where Botify shines.

2. 🥈 JetOctopus — probably the best value

JetOctopus is probably the one I'd test first if you're not an enterprise organization.

It combines:

Crawler + Log Analyzer + Google Search Console + GA4

and explicitly provides crawl-budget optimization insights from search-engine log data. jetoctopus.com

Its crawler can run at extremely high speeds, and you can schedule crawls daily, weekly, monthly, or every two weeks. jetoctopus.com

The really attractive part is that you can correlate:

What exists → What Googlebot crawls → What Google indexes/ranks → What generates traffic/revenue

JetOctopus currently describes its log analysis as covering Googlebot, Bingbot and 40+ other bots, with real-time log data and crawl-budget optimization. jetoctopus.com

I'd choose JetOctopus if: you want a very detailed technical SEO monitoring platform without necessarily needing the enterprise complexity/cost of Botify.

3. 🥉 Oncrawl — excellent if log analysis is central

Oncrawl is another strong choice, particularly if you want to combine scheduled technical crawls with server-log analysis.

It supports scheduled and recurring crawls, including selecting a crawl profile and specifying the date/time/time zone. help.oncrawl.com It also exposes scheduling through an API, which is useful if you want to integrate crawling into your own monitoring pipeline. developer.oncrawl.com

I'd put it slightly behind JetOctopus for your specific requirements, but it's absolutely worth evaluating.

One important distinction

If by "crawl rate" you mean:

A. How fast my crawler can crawl the website

then Botify, JetOctopus, Oncrawl, Screaming Frog, etc. can all provide useful measurements.

But if you mean:

B. How Googlebot/Bingbot actually crawl the website

then you really want server-log analysis.

That's because a crawler's 10,000 pages/hour tells you essentially nothing about Google's actual crawl budget. For that, you want data such as:

• Googlebot requests/day
• URLs crawled/day
• crawl frequency by directory
• response codes consumed by Googlebot
• average response time
• crawl activity by URL type
• crawl activity by page importance
• wasted crawl percentage
• parameter/faceted-navigation crawling
• redirected/404/soft-404 crawling
• newly discovered URL crawl latency
• Googlebot smartphone vs other Google crawlers
• crawl trends before/after technical changes

Botify and JetOctopus are particularly strong here because they combine the synthetic crawl with actual bot logs.

What I'd buy

For your requirements specifically:

Enterprise / millions of URLs → Botify

Mid-market / large site and best price-to-capability ratio → JetOctopus

SEO agency / sophisticated log analysis workflows → Oncrawl

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (e.g. 100K, 1M, 10M+) and whether you have access to server logs/CDN logs, I can give you a much more concrete recommendation—including which one gives you the best crawl-budget dashboards and what each actually reports.

If your priority is scheduled site crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting, I’d shortlist these:

My recommendation: Botify or JetOctopus

1. Botify — best if "crawl budget" is the central requirement

Botify is unusually strong because it combines its own crawler with server-log data showing what Googlebot/Bingbot actually crawled. Its Search Engines reporting can compare your site's crawl with search-engine behavior, including how much of the site was explored, crawl depth/frequency, errors, and URLs that aren't being crawled. support.botify.com

It also gives you real-time crawler metrics such as pages/second, bandwidth utilization, response time, URLs crawled vs. discovered, new URLs discovered per minute, and HTTP status codes. support.botify.com

Scheduled crawls can run daily, weekly, monthly, or continuously after the preceding analysis finishes. support.botify.com

I'd choose Botify if you're trying to answer questions like:

• How much of Google's crawl budget is being spent on faceted/parameter URLs?
• How frequently is Googlebot crawling important vs. low-value pages?
• Is crawl frequency changing after a technical SEO release?
• What percentage of Google's crawling produces useful/indexable URLs?
• Are server errors or slow responses reducing effective crawl capacity?

2. JetOctopus — probably my pick for the best combination of depth and usability

JetOctopus has both a crawler and Log Analyzer, with explicit crawl-budget optimization reporting. Its log analysis tracks Googlebot/Bingbot activity and can analyze more than 40 bots. jetoctopus.comjetoctopus.com

It also supports scheduled daily, weekly, monthly, and biweekly crawls. jetoctopus.com

The particularly nice thing is that you can combine:

Crawl data → server logs → Google Search Console

So you can investigate something like:

"These 2 million URLs exist, 600k are internally linked, 150k receive Googlebot crawls, 30k get impressions in GSC, and only 8k are actually valuable organic landing pages."

That's much more useful for crawl-budget optimization than simply knowing that your crawler found 2 million URLs.

JetOctopus also added MCP capabilities in 2026 that let you query crawl/log/GSC data conversationally and even start, schedule, pause, and tune crawls. jetoctopus.com

Where I'd rank them

If you're an enterprise SEO team:
Botify > JetOctopus > Lumar

If you're an agency or technically sophisticated in-house SEO team:
JetOctopus > Botify > Sitebulb Cloud

If you mainly want automated technical SEO monitoring rather than true search-engine crawl-budget analysis:
Sitebulb Cloud is very attractive. It runs scheduled crawls in the cloud and maintains comparable audit snapshots over time. sitebulb.com

If you want maximum crawler control and don't need sophisticated cloud/log infrastructure:
Screaming Frog remains excellent, particularly for analyzing your own crawl behavior, but I'd put Botify/JetOctopus ahead of it for actual Googlebot crawl-budget analysis.

One important distinction

I'd separate "crawl rate" into two things:

1. Your crawler's crawl rate — e.g. 50 pages/sec, response time, concurrency, bandwidth.
2. Google's crawl rate — what Googlebot is actually requesting from your server.

For what you described, you probably want #2. That means server-log analysis is essential. A crawler such as Screaming Frog can tell you what your crawler discovered, but it can't by itself tell you what Googlebot actually spent its crawl activity on.

That's why Botify and JetOctopus are my top two.

If you tell me roughly how large the site is (100K / 1M / 10M+ URLs), whether you have access to server/CDN logs, and whether this is for one site or a portfolio, I can narrow it down to the best 2–3 options and compare pricing, reporting depth, API access, scheduled crawl capabilities, and crawl-budget metrics.

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting, I’d narrow the field to Botify and Oncrawl, with Lumar as another strong enterprise option.

My ranking

🥇 I'd pick Botify if crawl behavior is the primary requirement

Botify is particularly strong if by "crawl rate" you mean actual crawler behavior and server interaction, rather than simply "how many URLs did my SEO crawler process."

Its crawl monitoring exposes things such as:

• pages/second
• bandwidth utilization
• response time
• URLs crawled vs. discovered
• URLs discovered over time
• HTTP status codes over time
• historical crawl reports
• adjustable crawl speed
• recurring scheduled crawls

Botify also lets you schedule recurring crawls daily, weekly, monthly, or continuously. support.botify.com

Botify

This would be my choice for a large ecommerce/content site where you want to answer questions like:

"How much of Google's crawl activity is being consumed by faceted URLs, redirects, errors, parameter URLs, etc., and is Google increasing/decreasing its crawl activity over time?"

🥈 Oncrawl if "crawl budget" is the centerpiece

Oncrawl is particularly good when you want to combine your own crawl data with server-log data.

That's important because there's a major distinction between:

Crawler crawl rate

How fast your SEO crawler crawled the site.

and

Search-engine crawl behavior

How Googlebot/Bingbot/etc. actually crawled the site.

For the latter, log-file analysis is much more valuable than simply running an SEO crawler.

Oncrawl is built around this type of analysis and can ingest server logs from sources including Apache, IIS and Nginx. www.oncrawl.com

Oncrawl

I'd lean toward Oncrawl over Botify if your SEO team is specifically asking:

"Where is Google spending our crawl budget?"

rather than:

"Give me the most sophisticated enterprise crawling platform."

🥉 Lumar

Lumar is worth evaluating if your main objective is continuous technical SEO monitoring—scheduled crawls, change detection, issue monitoring, and reporting—rather than extremely deep crawl-budget/log analysis.

One important distinction

If you specifically want Google's crawl budget, I wouldn't buy software based solely on how sophisticated its crawler is.

I'd want this data pipeline:

Server logs → Googlebot requests → URL classification → crawl frequency → response codes → response time → indexability → sitemap/internal-link status

Then your reporting should show things like:

• Googlebot requests/day
• Googlebot requests by directory/template
• crawl frequency by URL
• crawl rate over time
• % of crawl budget spent on indexable URLs
• % spent on non-indexable URLs
• 3xx/4xx/5xx consumption
• parameter/faceted URL consumption
• duplicate URL consumption
• average response time
• crawl activity vs. sitemap URLs
• crawl activity vs. organic traffic/value
• newly published URLs → time until Googlebot visit

That's where Botify/Oncrawl become considerably more interesting than Screaming Frog or Sitebulb.

My practical recommendation

If you give me the approximate number of URLs (e.g. 100K, 1M, 10M+), whether it's ecommerce/content/SaaS, and whether you have access to server/CDN logs, I can recommend Botify vs. Oncrawl vs. Lumar specifically—and tell you which one gives the best crawl-budget reporting for your situation.

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate telemetry + actual Google crawl-budget reporting, I’d shortlist these:

My pick: JetOctopus

For your particular requirements, JetOctopus is probably the best balance.

It combines a crawler with a log analyzer, so you're not just measuring your crawler's behavior—you can see what Googlebot and Bingbot are actually doing on the site. Its log analysis specifically provides crawl-budget optimization insights, bot behavior, and historical crawl data. jetoctopus.com

It also supports recurring crawls on daily, weekly, biweekly, or monthly schedules. jetoctopus.com

The distinction is important:

• Crawler crawl rate: How quickly your auditing crawler is requesting pages — e.g. 5 URLs/sec.
• Search-engine crawl rate: How frequently Googlebot is actually requesting your pages.
• Crawl budget: Whether Google's crawling resources are being spent on the URLs you actually care about.

If you want all three in one reporting environment, JetOctopus is much more appropriate than a conventional SEO crawler.

Botify if this is a large enterprise site

I'd choose Botify over JetOctopus if you're dealing with tens of millions of URLs, multiple international properties, or an SEO team that needs sophisticated segmentation and executive reporting.

Botify provides real-time crawler statistics including pages/second, response time, bandwidth, URLs crawled, discovered URLs, and HTTP status codes. support.botify.com

More importantly, its LogAnalyzer uses actual server logs to measure Googlebot/Bingbot crawling. It exposes metrics such as crawls per day, cumulative crawl counts, last crawl date, and HTTP errors encountered by search engines. support.botify.com

Its crawl-budget reporting is particularly good: Botify can show whether Google is crawling your indexable and strategic pages, whether crawl budget is being wasted, and how crawling varies by site segment. support.botify.com

Recurring crawls can also be scheduled daily, weekly, monthly, or continuously. support.botify.comsupport.botify.com

Sitebulb if you mainly mean technical crawl reporting

Sitebulb is excellent for scheduled technical SEO audits and longitudinal comparison. Pro and Cloud support recurring audits, and it provides visualization and historical comparison of crawl data. sitebulb.com

It also gives you explicit control over crawler threads and URLs/second, so it's good for understanding and controlling audit crawler rate. support.sitebulb.com

But I'd not pick it as the primary tool if "Google crawl budget" is the key requirement. That's where the log-analysis platforms pull ahead.

One important caveat

If by "crawl rate" you mean Googlebot's actual requests per second, don't choose a tool solely because it has a fast crawler. You want server-log analysis.

The ideal reporting setup would show something like:

Googlebot requests/day → unique URLs crawled → crawl frequency by URL → crawl frequency by template → % of crawl budget spent on non-indexable URLs → 4xx/5xx/redirect crawl waste → strategic/indexable URLs not crawled → crawl rate vs. response time.

For that specific dashboard, I'd rank them:

1. JetOctopus — best fit
2. Botify — best enterprise option
3. Sitebulb — best technical-audit option
4. Screaming Frog — best inexpensive/DIY crawler

If you tell me roughly how large the site is (e.g. 100K, 1M, 10M+ URLs) and whether you have access to server/CDN logs, I can narrow this down to the best 1–2 options and compare their current pricing and reporting capabilities.

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting, I’d narrow it to JetOctopus, Oncrawl, and Lumar rather than the more general SEO suites.

My ranking

1. JetOctopus — my first choice

This is probably the closest match to what you're describing.

It supports recurring scheduled crawls, including daily, weekly, biweekly, and monthly schedules. More importantly, it combines the crawler with server-log analysis, so you can compare what your crawler discovers with what Googlebot/Bingbot are actually crawling. jetoctopus.comjetoctopus.com

Its log analysis specifically includes crawl-budget optimization insights, bot behavior, Googlebot/Bingbot activity, crawl dynamics, and fake-bot detection. The crawler itself can run at very high speeds, and it supports crawl comparisons and segmentation. jetoctopus.comjetoctopus.com

I'd choose it if you want reports like:

• Googlebot hits by day/week
• Crawl frequency by URL
• Crawl budget wasted on parameters, duplicates, redirects, etc.
• Googlebot vs. Bingbot behavior
• Crawl activity by directory/template
• Changes in crawl behavior after releases
• Scheduled recurring crawls
• Crawl data + GSC + log data in one platform

That's a much closer fit to "crawl budget monitoring" than a traditional crawler.

2. Oncrawl — best for serious enterprise analysis

Oncrawl is particularly strong if you want to join crawl data with server logs and analyze how search engines actually consume the site. That's useful because "crawl budget" isn't really something a crawler can determine merely by crawling your site—it requires looking at search-engine behavior.

It supports scheduled recurring crawls and lets you select the crawl profile, date/time, and timezone. help.oncrawl.com

I'd lean toward Oncrawl over JetOctopus if your team wants very sophisticated datasets, segmentation, and analysis across a large enterprise site.

3. Lumar — best for large technical SEO programs

Lumar is excellent if the crawl is part of a broader technical SEO/site quality monitoring program. Its crawler is designed for very large sites and supports extremely high crawl speeds, custom data extraction, and hundreds of built-in reports. www.lumar.io

It also has a strong emphasis on controlling crawl consumption and scheduling crawls intelligently rather than simply running full crawls constantly. www.lumar.io

I'd pick Lumar when SEO + engineering + QA + accessibility all need to use the same platform.

One important distinction

If by "crawl rate" you mean:

How fast can my crawler hit my site?

then all three can give you useful crawler-performance information.

But if you mean:

How often and how aggressively is Googlebot crawling my site, which URLs consume that crawl activity, and where is Google's crawl budget being wasted?

then you really want log-file analysis + crawler data.

That's why I'd put JetOctopus and Oncrawl ahead of Screaming Frog for your particular requirement. Crawl budget is fundamentally a combination of crawl rate and crawl demand, and understanding it requires looking at search-engine behavior rather than just running another site crawl. www.lumar.io

My recommendation

For most teams: JetOctopus.

For a very large enterprise site with an analytics-heavy SEO team: Oncrawl.

For an enterprise technical-QA program where SEO is only one component: Lumar.

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (100K / 1M / 10M+), how often you want to crawl it, and whether you have access to server logs, I can give you a much more specific recommendation—including which one gives you the best crawl-budget dashboard/reporting for your situation.

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting, I’d shortlist these:

My top picks

1. JetOctopus — probably the best fit for what you described.

It combines scheduled crawling with log-file analysis, Googlebot/Bingbot behavior, crawl-budget optimization, bot behavior dynamics, and crawl comparisons. Its current offering also supports crawling at up to 250 pages/sec and scheduled daily/weekly/monthly crawls. jetoctopus.com

The particularly useful part is that you can correlate:

• URLs discovered vs. crawled
• Googlebot crawl frequency
• crawl budget consumed
• response codes
• crawl depth
• indexability
• bot behavior by URL segment
• changes between crawls
• Googlebot/Bingbot server-log activity

If you're managing large ecommerce/content sites, I'd start here.

2. Botify — best if "crawl budget" is the central requirement.

Botify is more enterprise-oriented. Its LogAnalyzer provides daily visibility into actual search-engine crawling from server logs, while SiteCrawler handles your controlled site crawls. support.botify.com

Its scheduling is particularly mature: recurring daily, weekly, or monthly crawls are supported, as well as continuous recurring crawls for sites that change constantly. support.botify.com

It also lets you change crawl speed, depth, and URL limits while a crawl is running and maintains historical crawl reports for comparison. support.botify.com

I'd choose Botify over JetOctopus if you're running a very large enterprise site and need sophisticated segmentation/reporting and log-based analysis.

3. Oncrawl — excellent alternative to Botify.

Oncrawl is specifically built around combining technical crawling + server-log analysis + data analysis, which makes it much more useful for crawl-budget questions than a conventional crawler. www.softwares.com

One important distinction

If by "crawl rate" you mean:

"How fast should my crawler crawl the site?"

then almost any serious crawler can give you this.

But if you mean:

"How frequently is Googlebot actually crawling my site, how many URLs is Google crawling, what sections consume Google's crawl activity, and where is crawl budget being wasted?"

then you want log analysis in addition to a crawler.

That's why I'd rank them:

JetOctopus ≈ Botify > Oncrawl >>> Sitebulb/Screaming Frog

For your specific requirement, I would not choose Screaming Frog or Sitebulb as the primary platform unless your sites are relatively small. They're excellent technical crawlers, but the deeper search-engine crawl behavior / crawl-budget analysis is where Botify, JetOctopus, and Oncrawl pull ahead.

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (e.g. 100k, 1M, 10M+) and whether you have access to server logs, I can narrow this to the best 1–2 options and compare pricing, reporting, API access, scheduling, and crawl-budget metrics.

For scheduled site crawls with detailed crawl-rate and crawl-budget reporting, I’d look at tools that combine:

• scheduled crawling (daily/weekly or triggered)
• historical crawl comparisons
• bot/crawler behavior analysis
• crawl budget metrics (requests, response codes, crawl waste, depth, resources)
• log-file analysis (the most accurate source for actual search-engine crawl behavior)

My recommendations:

My shortlist by use case

1. Enterprise SEO / millions of URLs

Best choice: Botify or Lumar

Use these if you need answers like:

• How often does Googlebot crawl each section?
• Which URLs consume crawl budget?
• Are parameter URLs wasting crawling?
• Is crawl frequency increasing after technical changes?
• Which pages are discovered but rarely crawled?

They combine:

• crawler data
• server log data
• Google Search Console data
• URL segmentation

2. Technical SEO team running recurring audits

Best choice: Screaming Frog SEO Spider + log analyzer

A common setup:

• Daily/weekly scheduled crawl
• Store crawl exports
• Compare changes over time
• Combine with server logs

Good reports:

• URLs discovered vs crawled
• crawl depth distribution
• orphan pages
• indexability issues
• canonical conflicts
• duplicate content
• response code trends
• JavaScript rendering issues

3. Best crawl-budget visibility specifically

I would prioritize:

1. Botify
2. Oncrawl
3. JetOctopus

because true crawl budget reporting requires server log analysis. A crawler can tell you what your crawler saw; logs tell you what Googlebot actually did.

Metrics I would expect from a serious crawl-budget dashboard

Look for:

Crawl demand

• Googlebot hits/day
• URLs crawled/day
• crawl frequency by directory
• crawl frequency by template type

Crawl efficiency

• % of crawls hitting indexable URLs
• crawl waste rate
• parameter URL consumption
• duplicate URL crawling
• soft 404 crawling

Technical signals

• response-code distribution
• average response time
• server errors
• redirect chains
• blocked resources

Content discovery

• discovered vs crawled vs indexed URLs
• crawl depth
• internal link equity flow
• orphan pages

My practical recommendation

For most serious SEO programs:

Budget-conscious stack

• Screaming Frog scheduled crawls
• Google Search Console
• server log analyzer

Mid-market stack

• Screaming Frog + JetOctopus

Enterprise stack

• Botify or Oncrawl + scheduled technical crawls

If you tell me your site size (URLs/pages), CMS, whether you have server log access, and whether this is for SEO or compliance monitoring, I can narrow this to a specific stack.

If your priority is scheduled crawls + detailed crawl-rate/crawl-budget reporting, I’d shortlist these:

1. JetOctopus — my recommendation

This is probably the closest match to what you're asking for.

It combines a cloud crawler with server-log analysis, so you're able to compare:

• How often Googlebot actually crawls URLs
• Crawl frequency by URL/section
• Crawl activity over time
• Googlebot/Bingbot behavior
• Crawl budget being spent on low-value URLs
• Uncrawled/orphan URLs
• Crawl depth and site structure
• Crawl speed
• Changes between scheduled crawls

JetOctopus specifically advertises crawl-budget optimization insights, bot-behavior analysis, crawl-speed reporting, segmentation, crawl comparisons, and scheduled crawls. jetoctopus.com

The important distinction is that your crawler's crawl rate isn't the same thing as Google's crawl rate. For actual Googlebot crawl-budget reporting, you want server-log data + crawler data, not just a recurring SEO crawl.

2. Botify — best enterprise option

If you're dealing with millions/tens of millions of URLs, Botify is probably the most sophisticated option.

Botify combines SiteCrawler + LogAnalyzer + Google Search Console data, which lets you connect:

crawlability → Googlebot crawling → indexation → organic performance

Its SiteCrawler supports detailed crawl analysis and JavaScript rendering, while LogAnalyzer provides the actual search-bot behavior. support.botify.com

Botify also supports daily, weekly, monthly, and continuous recurring crawls, so it fits the monitoring use case very well. support.botify.com

I'd choose Botify over JetOctopus if you have a large enterprise site, multiple international properties, or a dedicated technical SEO/data team.

3. Screaming Frog SEO Spider + Log File Analyser

This is the option I'd choose if you want maximum technical control without going immediately to an enterprise platform.

The Log File Analyser can report:

• Most/least crawled URLs
• Bot crawl frequency
• Bot IP activity
• Uncrawled/orphan URLs
• Large/slow URLs
• Search-bot errors
• Crawl comparisons

www.screamingfrog.co.uk

The downside is that it feels more like a powerful SEO workstation than a centralized crawl-monitoring platform. You have to build more of the reporting/automation yourself.

What I'd actually buy

For 100K–5M URLs:
JetOctopus → probably the sweet spot.

For 5M+ URLs / enterprise:
Botify → strongest overall platform.

For <1M URLs and a technical SEO team:
Screaming Frog + Log File Analyser → excellent price/performance.

One caveat: if by "crawl rate" you specifically mean Googlebot requests per day, requests per URL type, crawl frequency, response latency, status-code distribution, and how much of Google's crawl activity is being wasted, I'd prioritize a log-analysis platform over a conventional crawler. JetOctopus and Botify are particularly well suited to that because they combine the two datasets.

If you tell me roughly how many URLs the site has (100K / 1M / 10M+), I can give you a more specific recommendation and compare JetOctopus vs Botify vs Oncrawl vs Screaming Frog on reporting depth, scheduling, APIs, dashboards, and price.

If your primary goal is scheduled crawls with detailed crawl rate, crawl budget, and crawl efficiency reporting, I'd separate the tools into enterprise-grade SEO crawlers and technical auditing tools.

My top recommendations

1. Screaming Frog (Best value)

If you're comfortable with technical SEO, this is still the benchmark.

It provides:

• scheduled crawls
• crawl history
• crawl comparison
• response time trends
• crawl depth
• orphan pages
• internal link distribution
• duplicate detection
• Core Web Vitals imports
• Google Analytics/Search Console integration
• XML sitemap comparison
• configurable crawl speed (URLs/sec and threads)

You can also export detailed metrics such as:

• pages crawled per minute
• average response time
• response codes over time
• crawl completion trends
• URL discovery patterns

Running it from the command line makes nightly or hourly crawls straightforward.

2. JetOctopus (Best cloud solution)

This is one of the strongest platforms specifically for crawl budget optimization.

It tracks:

• crawl frequency
• crawl depth
• wasted crawl budget
• indexable vs non-indexable URLs
• orphan pages
• Googlebot behavior
• server log analysis
• crawl overlap
• pages consuming excessive crawl resources

Its visualizations make it easier to identify where Googlebot is spending time versus where you want it to.

3. Botify (Enterprise)

If you're managing sites with millions of URLs, Botify is hard to beat.

It combines:

• website crawl
• server log files
• search performance
• indexing data

That enables reports like:

• Googlebot crawl frequency
• crawl budget waste
• indexation efficiency
• crawl vs traffic
• crawl vs conversions
• crawl priority
• pages never crawled
• pages over-crawled

This is the closest thing to a complete crawl budget intelligence platform.

4. Oncrawl

One of the best options if log-file analysis is a priority.

Useful reports include:

• Googlebot visit frequency
• bot segmentation
• crawl efficiency
• crawl depth over time
• pages ignored by bots
• internal PageRank estimates
• crawl budget distribution

If you want to measure Google's crawl budget specifically

A crawler alone can't tell you how Google is using its crawl budget. The best approach combines:

• Your crawler (Screaming Frog, Sitebulb, etc.)
• Server log analysis (to observe actual Googlebot requests)
• Google Search Console crawl statistics
• Indexation data

Platforms like Botify, Oncrawl, and JetOctopus combine these data sources to provide a much more accurate view of crawl budget than a crawler by itself.

My recommendations by use case

• Best overall value: Screaming Frog
• Best cloud crawler: JetOctopus
• Best enterprise platform: Botify
• Best for log-file analysis: Oncrawl
• Best visual reporting: Sitebulb
• Best for very large websites (10M+ URLs): Lumar or Botify

If you're responsible for a site with 100,000+ URLs, I'd lean toward JetOctopus or Oncrawl because they combine scheduled crawling with server log analysis and provide detailed reporting on crawl rate, crawl budget allocation, and Googlebot behavior without requiring as much custom analysis as desktop tools.

If your priority is scheduled enterprise-grade crawls plus visibility into crawl rate, crawl budget, and bot behavior, the tools differ quite a bit. Many SEO crawlers can schedule scans, but relatively few provide meaningful crawl budget analysis.

Here's how I'd rank them.

1. Botify (My top recommendation)

Best if you're managing enterprise websites.

Strengths:

• Continuous scheduled crawls
• Googlebot behavior visualization
• Crawl budget waste detection
• Crawl frequency by directory
• Orphan page detection
• JavaScript rendering
• Indexation analysis
• Internal PageRank modeling
• Combines:
  • Crawl data
  • Log files
  • Google Search Console
  • Analytics

Excellent reporting includes:

• Googlebot hits/day
• Crawl frequency trends
• Crawl efficiency
• Crawl depth
• Time-to-discovery
• Pages never crawled
• Pages crawled too frequently

Ideal for:

• ecommerce
• publishers
• SaaS
• sites over 500k URLs

2. JetOctopus (Best value)

One of the strongest technical SEO platforms today.

It provides:

• scheduled crawls
• log analyzer
• crawl budget optimization reports
• Googlebot segmentation
• rendering analysis
• Core Web Vitals
• orphan pages
• XML sitemap comparison

Their crawl budget reports are especially useful because they show:

• URLs consuming crawl budget
• Low-value pages
• Crawl waste
• Duplicate crawling
• Parameter crawling
• Response code distribution
• Crawl depth changes over time

Many agencies have switched from Deepcrawl/Lumar to JetOctopus because it offers much of the same functionality at a lower price.

3. OnCrawl

Outstanding if log analysis is your focus.

Its strengths include:

• log analysis
• scheduled crawls
• crawl budget dashboards
• Googlebot segmentation
• Bingbot analysis
• JavaScript crawling
• SEO impact reports
• crawl vs. index comparison

One standout feature is that it correlates:

• crawl frequency
• page importance
• organic traffic
• conversions

This helps identify pages that consume crawl budget without delivering SEO value.

4. Lumar (formerly Deepcrawl)

A long-standing enterprise crawler.

Features include:

• recurring crawls
• historical comparisons
• crawl trend analysis
• render testing
• accessibility checks
• internal linking analysis
• crawl budget insights

It's particularly strong for governance across large organizations.

5. Screaming Frog + Log File Analyzer

Still one of the best combinations if you don't mind a desktop workflow.

You can:

• schedule crawls
• compare crawl history
• analyze server logs
• measure Googlebot frequency
• identify crawl waste
• compare crawl vs sitemap
• compare crawl vs index

It isn't as visually polished as cloud platforms, but it provides very deep technical insight at a much lower cost.

Features to prioritize

If crawl budget reporting is a key requirement, look for:

• Historical crawl trends
• Googlebot hit frequency
• Crawl depth over time
• URL discovery rate
• Orphan pages
• Redirect chain frequency
• Soft 404 reporting
• Parameter crawl analysis
• Duplicate URL detection
• Crawl waste identification
• XML sitemap vs crawl comparison
• Log file integration
• Google Search Console integration
• JavaScript rendering analysis
• Change monitoring between crawls

My recommendations by site size

• Under 50,000 URLs: Sitebulb Cloud or Screaming Frog.
• 50,000–500,000 URLs: JetOctopus offers an excellent balance of features and cost.
• 500,000+ URLs: Botify or OnCrawl are hard to beat for enterprise-scale crawl budget optimization.
• Millions of URLs: Botify remains one of the strongest choices because of its scalable crawl infrastructure and advanced log analysis.

If your goal is specifically measuring and improving Google's crawl budget, I'd shortlist:

1. Botify (most comprehensive)
2. JetOctopus (best value)
3. OnCrawl (best for log-based insights)

Those three stand out because they combine scheduled crawling with server log analysis, which is essential for understanding actual search engine crawler behavior rather than just the site's internal link structure.

If your priority is scheduled crawling plus detailed crawl rate, crawl efficiency, and crawl budget analysis, there are only a handful of tools that go beyond basic SEO audits.

1. Screaming Frog (Best desktop option)

Strengths:

• Schedule crawls daily/weekly/monthly
• Crawl comparison between runs
• Custom extraction
• JavaScript rendering
• Crawl depth reports
• Internal link analysis
• Response code trends
• Export everything to CSV/Looker Studio

When paired with server logs:

• Crawl frequency
• Crawl waste
• Crawl budget utilization
• Googlebot behavior

Best if:

• <500k URLs
• Technical SEO consultant
• One-off audits plus recurring monitoring

2. Botify (Best overall)

Botify is built around crawl budget optimization.

It combines:

• Website crawl
• Googlebot log files
• Search Console
• Indexation
• Organic traffic

You'll get dashboards showing:

• Pages Google crawls most
• Pages Google ignores
• Crawl frequency by section
• Crawl efficiency
• Crawl waste
• Crawl-to-index ratios
• Crawl latency
• Orphan pages
• JavaScript crawl issues

Ideal for sites with millions of pages.

3. Oncrawl

Probably the best value if crawl budget is your main concern.

Features include:

• Scheduled crawls
• Googlebot log analysis
• Crawl frequency by URL
• Crawl depth
• Indexability trends
• Crawl budget segmentation
• XML sitemap comparison
• Crawl efficiency reports

One standout feature is the ability to compare:

• URLs crawled by your crawler
• URLs visited by Googlebot
• URLs indexed

That quickly reveals wasted crawl budget.

4. JetOctopus

A strong alternative that's often more affordable than Botify.

Excellent reports include:

• Crawl budget over time
• Googlebot activity
• Crawl rate trends
• Crawl frequency heatmaps
• Response code distributions
• Internal linking
• Rendered HTML
• Core Web Vitals integration
• Log-file analyzer

Its dashboards are particularly user-friendly.

5. Lumar (Deepcrawl)

Very popular among enterprise SEO teams.

It excels at:

• Continuous scheduled crawls
• Large-site monitoring
• Crawl trend analysis
• Crawl depth visualization
• Technical issue tracking
• Automated alerts
• Historical comparisons

Strong integrations with analytics and BI tools.

If log-file analysis matters

To truly understand crawl budget, you need server logs, not just crawler data.

The best platforms for this are: