G2 Vendor Directory

SEO Spider vs. Surfer

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricSEO Spider

by Screaming Frog

Surfer

by Surfer

Overall rating4.74.8
Review count84546
Ease of use8.89.4
Ease of setup9.29.5
Quality of support9.29.5
Meets requirements9.69.4
NPS85.18518586.866792
Small Business56.6%92.9%
Mid-Market34.9%6.3%
Enterprise8.4%0.8%
Total page views1311,526
Total LLM citations56316,624

SEO Spider

The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a powerful website crawler designed for Windows, macOS, and Linux, trusted by thousands of SEO professionals and agencies worldwide for comprehensive technical SEO audits. It enables users to efficiently analyze websites, identify over 300 SEO issues, and uncover opportunities to enhance website health and user experience. Key Features and Functionality: - Broken Link Detection: Quickly identifies broken links (404 errors) and server errors, allowing for prompt fixes to maintain site integrity.

Pros

  • Strategy Development
  • SEO Optimization
  • SEO Improvement
  • Website Analysis
  • Detailed Reporting
  • Ease of Use

Surfer

Positive Surfer is an AI Visibility Platform that helps marketing teams become the definitive answer wherever their buyers search — across Google and AI search. It combines data, research-backed optimization, and a user-friendly workflow to grow brand visibility through content where buying decisions start to form. Surfer is used by in-house marketing teams, content marketers, SEO specialists, and agencies around the world to track, plan, write, and optimize content that gets ranked and cited by both search engines and LLMs.

Pros

  • Content Creation
  • SEO Optimization
  • Ease of Use
  • SEO Improvement
  • Time Saving
  • User-Friendly