The short answer
- Pick JetOctopus if you need server-log analysis joined to crawl and Search Console data, and your site is big enough that 500,000 crawled URLs a month is the starting point.
- Pick JetOctopus if a whole team or many client sites need access: every plan includes unlimited seats, projects and simultaneous crawls.
- Pick bseoa if the job is technical auditing and $4,188 a year is more than it justifies: $279 once, with no monthly URL quota.
- Pick bseoa if you want the crawler local: staging servers, sites only your network can reach, and scripted runs in CI with JSON output.
- Use both if JetOctopus handles logs, alerts and ongoing monitoring of production, and bseoa does pre-release checks and one-off audits from your machine.
JetOctopus pricing
| Plan | Billed quarterly (per month) | Billed yearly (per month) | Limit | 3-year cost, one user (yearly billing) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Growth (in-house) | $459 | $349 ($4,188 a year) | 500,000 crawled URLs a month; 2M log lines; 3 Search Console and 3 GA4 properties; data kept 12 months | $12,564 |
| Pro (in-house) | $1,089 | $809 ($9,708 a year) | 2M URLs; 8M log lines; 10 + 10 properties | $29,124 |
| Ultra (in-house) | $2,069 | $1,559 ($18,708 a year) | 5M URLs; 25M log lines; 20 + 20 properties | $56,124 |
| Growth (agencies) | $549 | $409 ($4,908 a year) | 500,000 URLs; 2M log lines; 20 + 20 properties; data kept for the subscription | $14,724 |
| Pro (agencies) | $1,089 | $809 ($9,708 a year) | 2M URLs; 6M log lines; 40 + 40 properties | $29,124 |
| Ultra (agencies) | $2,299 | $1,729 ($20,748 a year) | 5M URLs; 12M log lines; 80 + 80 properties | $62,244 |
| Unlimited | Quote only | Quote only | Custom URLs, unlimited logs and properties | Quote only |
JetOctopus bills yearly (25% off) or quarterly; we did not see a month-to-month option. The page has separate In-House and Agencies tabs with different prices and limits for Growth and Ultra. All modules come with every plan: JavaScript rendering, logs, API, MCP, alerts, keyword and position data. Seats are not charged, so the three-year figure is the same for one person or twenty. The 7-day trial includes all modules with up to 10,000 crawled URLs, 3 months of Search Console keyword data, exports of up to 500 rows per report, and no credit card.
Source: jetoctopus.com/pricing, checked on 31 October 2026. Our September crawler pricing page listed older JetOctopus plans ($689 a month for Pro); the figures above replace them.
bseoa pricing
| Plan | Monthly | Yearly | What you get | 3-year cost, one user |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single License | Not offered | Not offered | $279 once; no crawl limit; updates included | $279 |
| Agency License | Not offered | Not offered | $1,999 once; for teams | $1,999 (whole team) |
| Hosted connector, with a license | $15 | $120 | Claude.ai and ChatGPT; 25,000 pages per rolling 30 days, 2,000 per crawl | $360 on top of the license ($639 with a Single License) |
| Hosted connector, without a license | $50 | $500 | Same limits as above | $1,500 |
| Free trial | $0 | $0 | 14 days, every feature, no page limit, no credit card | $0 |
Source: blackseoanalyzer.com/en/pricing, checked on 31 October 2026. The desktop app, the CLI and the local MCP server need only the license; the hosted connector is optional.
Three-year cost for one person
bseoa: $279 for a Single License, or $639 with the hosted connector for Claude.ai and ChatGPT on yearly billing. JetOctopus: $12,564 for Growth (in-house) on yearly billing, $16,524 if you pay quarterly, and $14,724 for Growth on the agency tab. The gap is real, and so is the difference in what you get: JetOctopus includes log analysis, Search Console and GA4 data, alerts and unlimited seats, none of which bseoa has.
Feature matrix
Yes, No or Partial, with a numbered note for every Partial. Competitor cells link to the page we read on 31 October 2026.
| bseoa | JetOctopus | |
|---|---|---|
| Runs where | Desktop. GUI and CLI on your machine; optional hosted connector | Cloud. Web app on JetOctopus servers |
| Price model | One-time. Updates included | Subscription. Billed yearly or quarterly (source) |
| Entry price | $279. Single License, once | $349 a month. Growth, in-house, billed yearly ($459 billed quarterly) (source) |
| Crawl limit at entry price | No limit. Desktop and CLI; the hosted connector allows 25,000 pages per rolling 30 days | 500,000 URLs a month. Growth plan (source) |
| JavaScript rendering | Yes. Headless Chrome in the desktop app and CLI; the hosted connector does not render JavaScript | Yes. On every plan (source) |
| Command line and automation | Yes. Full CLI; every crawl and report can be scripted | Partial1 |
| API or scriptable output | Yes. JSON, CSV, XML and HTML exports from the CLI | Yes. API on every plan (source) |
| Scheduled crawls | No. No built-in scheduler; run the CLI from cron or Task Scheduler | Yes. Daily, weekly, every two weeks, monthly or once (source) |
| Log file analysis | No | Yes. 2M log lines a month on Growth; direct log integrations (source) |
| Backlink data | No | Partial2 |
| Keyword and rank data | No | Yes. Keywords performance and position tracking on every plan (source) |
| Search Console integration | No | Yes. 3 properties on in-house Growth, 20 on agency Growth; GA4 too (source) |
| AI assistant integration | Yes. Local MCP server in Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and Perplexity; hosted connector in Claude.ai and ChatGPT | Yes. Hosted MCP server for ChatGPT, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and n8n; every plan (source) |
| AI-readiness checks | Yes. 26 checks: AI crawler access in robots.txt, llms.txt, bylines and dates, JavaScript-dependent content | Partial3 |
| Reporting and exports | Yes. HTML reports, CSV, XML, JSON | Yes. Reports, exports and API; Looker Studio connector only on Unlimited (source) |
| Users and seats | Per license. Agency License ($1,999) for teams | Unlimited. On every plan (source) |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux | Web browser |
| Free tier or trial | 14-day trial. Every feature, no page limit, no credit card | 7-day trial. 10,000 URLs, no credit card; no free plan (source) |
| Source code guarantee | Yes. On every purchase | No. None published |
- No command-line tool. Automation runs through scheduled crawls, the API and the hosted MCP server, which can start, pause and schedule crawls. Source: jetoctopus.com/mcp.
- No backlink index of its own. The trial description lists an Ahrefs integration, so backlink data comes from your Ahrefs account. Source: jetoctopus.com/pricing.
- JetOctopus tracks how AI bots crawl your site from server logs and offers a robots.txt tool covering AI bots. We found no documented checks for llms.txt or for bylines and dates. Source: jetoctopus.com/pricing.
Where JetOctopus wins
- Logs. JetOctopus reads your server logs and shows what Googlebot and AI bots actually fetch, joined to the crawl. bseoa does no log analysis.
- Search Console and GA4 data on every page of the crawl, plus keyword performance and position tracking. bseoa has none of that data.
- Unlimited seats, projects and simultaneous crawls, so a team or an agency with many clients pays per plan, not per person.
- Scheduled crawls and alerts for indexability, Core Web Vitals and Googlebot behavior. bseoa has no scheduler or alerting; you cron the CLI.
- Its hosted MCP server works in more clients than ours lists, including Gemini CLI and n8n, and can start crawls on your quota from a chat.
Where bseoa wins
- Price: $279 once against $4,188 a year at the lowest JetOctopus tier on yearly billing.
- No monthly URL quota in the desktop app or CLI; JetOctopus Growth stops at 500,000 crawled URLs a month.
- It runs locally. Crawl staging, localhost and anything your machine can reach, and run the CLI in CI with JSON, CSV or XML output.
- 26 AI-readiness checks, including llms.txt, AI crawler rules in robots.txt, bylines and dates, and content that only appears after JavaScript runs.
- A 14-day trial with every feature and no page limit, against 7 days and 10,000 URLs; and a source code guarantee on every purchase.
Who should pick which
- Agency: JetOctopus if you report logs and Search Console data for many large clients and want everyone on one account. bseoa, with the Agency License, if the work is audits and you would rather not carry a monthly platform cost.
- In-house technical SEO: JetOctopus on a large site where log analysis and alerts drive the work. bseoa on smaller sites, or as the crawler you run before a release.
- Developer: bseoa. The CLI fits CI, outputs JSON, and the MCP server runs in your editor.
- Enterprise: JetOctopus or a similar platform for production monitoring and logs; bseoa for engineers who need a local crawler on staging.