Screaming Frog is the industry-standard technical crawler. LinkJuice is a focused internal-link analyzer that runs in your browser. They overlap on one tab — here is the honest comparison.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider is excellent at what it does — full-site technical crawler (desktop). LinkJuice is narrower on purpose: it reads your internal-link graph in depth, in the browser, for €19/month. If internal linking is the problem you want to solve, LinkJuice is the more focused tool; for everything around it, Screaming Frog is the broader one.
If you have landed here you are probably choosing between a focused internal-link analyzer and a broader tool you may already use. The honest answer is that Screaming Frog SEO Spider and LinkJuice are built for different jobs and overlap in exactly one place — the internal-link graph. This page lays out where each is stronger so you can pick correctly, rather than pretending one replaces the other.
| Dimension | LinkJuice | Screaming Frog SEO Spider |
|---|---|---|
| Primary focus | Internal-link analysis (specialist) | Full-site technical crawler (desktop) |
| Where it runs | In the browser — nothing to install | Desktop app (Windows / macOS / Linux, Java) |
| Internal-link depth | Internal PageRank, boilerplate-vs-editorial split, orphans, equity leaks, money-page scorecard | Has “All Inlinks”, internal link counts, crawl depth and a link score |
| Breadth | Internal linking only — one job, done deeply | Broad technical SEO: status codes, redirects, canonicals, hreflang, directives, duplicate content, custom extraction, JS rendering, GA/GSC/PSI integrations |
| Learning curve | Minutes — one focused report | Moderate — many tabs, filters and configuration options |
| Price | €19/month | Free up to 500 URLs; paid licence roughly £199/year * |
| Best for | Anyone who wants to fix how authority flows inside their site | Technical SEOs who need to crawl an entire site and audit everything from response codes to directives |
* Competitor pricing is approximate and stated as of 2026 — always check the vendor's current pricing. LinkJuice is €19/month.
Screaming Frog is, deservedly, the tool most technical SEOs reach for first. It crawls an entire site quickly, surfaces an enormous range of technical signals — response codes, redirect chains, canonicals, hreflang, meta directives, duplicate content, page titles, structured data — and exports all of it cleanly. It renders JavaScript, integrates with Google Analytics, Search Console and PageSpeed, supports custom extraction, and the free tier (up to 500 URLs) makes it accessible to anyone. For full-site technical auditing it is hard to beat, and LinkJuice does not try to.
Screaming Frog does report internal links: its “All Inlinks” and “Internal” tabs give you inbound and outbound link counts, crawl depth and a normalised link score, and you can export the full edge list. What it does not do out of the box is the specialist internal-link reading LinkJuice is built around: a weighted internal PageRank across the whole graph, a split of every link into boilerplate (navigation/header/footer) versus editorial (in body content) by its position in the DOM, an orphan and near-orphan census, equity lost to redirected internal links, and a money-page scorecard that asks whether your commercial pages are actually well-linked. In Screaming Frog those answers are reachable — many SEOs export the inlinks CSV and compute them elsewhere (in fact LinkJuice ingests exactly that CSV) — but they are a manual, analyst-driven exercise rather than the default view.
The question is not which tool is “better” — it is whether internal linking is one box to tick or the problem you want to understand.
LinkJuice deliberately does one thing. It takes a crawl of your site — its own, or a Screaming Frog “All Inlinks” export — and reads the internal-link graph the way a strategist would: it computes a weighted internal PageRank so you can see which pages the site itself treats as important; it classifies every link as boilerplate (templated into navigation, header or footer) or editorial (placed in body content) by its position in the DOM; it finds orphan and near-orphan pages that are barely linked; it measures equity lost to redirected and broken internal links; and it scores whether your money pages — the commercial pages you actually want to rank — are well-supported or starved.
Because it is scoped to that one job, it runs in the browser with nothing to install, returns a focused report in minutes, and is priced at €19/month rather than at suite or licence level. That focus is also its honest limitation: LinkJuice is not a full SEO suite and not a general-purpose crawler. It will not check your backlinks, research keywords, render every technical directive, or audit page speed. For those, Screaming Frog (or a tool like it) is the right choice — and the two work well together.
No — and it is not meant to be. Screaming Frog is a full-site technical crawler; LinkJuice is an internal-link specialist. Many users run a crawl in Screaming Frog (or let LinkJuice crawl), then use LinkJuice to read the internal-link graph — PageRank, boilerplate-vs-editorial split, orphans and equity leaks — without exporting and building spreadsheets by hand.
Screaming Frog gives you link counts, crawl depth and a link score, and you can export every inlink. A weighted internal PageRank, a DOM-position split into boilerplate vs editorial links, and a money-page scorecard are not default views — they are something you compute from the export. LinkJuice does that computation for you as its core report.
No. LinkJuice runs in the browser, so there is nothing to download or keep updated. Screaming Frog is a desktop application you install and license per machine.
LinkJuice is €19/month. Screaming Frog is free up to 500 URLs and, as of 2026, roughly £199/year for the full licence — please check current pricing on their site, as it changes.
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