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Crawl Cove vs Lumar

The Lumar alternative
without enterprise overhead.

Crawl Cove is a Lumar alternative for teams that need fast, repeatable audits with clear fixes, not a platform rollout. Lumar (formerly DeepCrawl) is built for large enterprise crawling programmes, with pricing and onboarding to match. Crawl Cove delivers practical audits on the desktop, with free ranking data and Core Web Vitals and one flat plan price rather than per-user seats.

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Comparison

Crawl Cove vs Lumar, line by line.

Feature comparison between Crawl Cove and Lumar (formerly DeepCrawl). A check means included; a warning triangle means limited or requires setup; a cross means not available.
Set-up & onboarding Crawl Cove Install & crawl Lumar Enterprise onboarding
Pricing accessibility Crawl Cove From £14.99/mo, listed publicly Lumar Not published; quote from sales
Plain-English fix for every issue Crawl Cove Built in Lumar Reports & insights
Google Search Console + Bing Crawl Cove One click; free Bing key Lumar Integrations
Core Web Vitals Crawl Cove Free, on demand Lumar Supported
Where your data lives Crawl Cove Local, on your machine Lumar Cloud platform
Best fit Crawl Cove Agencies & in-house SEOs Lumar Enterprise programmes
Included Limited / requires setup Not available

Lumar publishes no price or plan; its pricing page asks you to request a quote, re-checked 6 October 2026 against lumar.io/pricing. Its platform includes WCAG accessibility testing and site-speed monitoring as named modules; Crawl Cove checks only the accessibility basics that overlap with SEO, and reads Core Web Vitals per page rather than monitoring them.

Why switch

Three reasons smaller teams pick Crawl Cove.

01 · Fixes, not just findings

Every issue explains itself

A severity-ranked to-do list with a plain-English fix for each finding, instead of raw data spread across tabs or dashboards.

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02 · Free integrations

Ranking data + CWV included

Google Search Console, Bing, CrUX and Lighthouse are on every plan at no extra cost. Search Console connects in one click, Bing and CrUX take a free key of your own, and Lighthouse needs no key at all. No paid keys, no per-feature gates, no suite subscription.

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03 · Local & multi-client

Built for many client sites

Separate projects, histories and reports per client, all private and on your own machine.

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See it, not just read about it

One finding, fully documented

Every issue Crawl Cove surfaces opens into this: the HTML evidence, which pages link to it, a plain-English explanation and fix, and an effort estimate. No enterprise dashboard needed to make sense of it.

The Crawl Cove evidence drawer open beside the findings table, showing the HTML snippet, affected URLs, a plain-English explanation, effort estimate, and Create Task button
The evidence drawer for a real finding, from the Crawl Cove app.

The honest part

What Lumar does better than we do

Lumar is an enterprise platform with tools a desktop crawler does not try to be. Two real gaps, stated plainly.

Custom extractions and custom metrics

Lumar pairs hundreds of built-in reports with custom extractions, and lets you define custom metrics of your own. Crawl Cove has no custom extraction: it runs its own set of checks and explains each one.

One cloud platform for the whole organisation

Lumar runs in the cloud, so crawls, reports and dashboards are shared across a team and with stakeholders who never install anything. Crawl Cove is a desktop app: crawl data stays on the machine that ran it, and you share findings as exports or branded client reports.

If you run a crawling programme across very large sites with many stakeholders, Lumar is built for that. If you need fast, explained audits of your own or your clients' sites without a platform rollout, that is what Crawl Cove is for.

Related reading: An SEO audit report template, with a real example White-label client reports

FAQ

Switching from Lumar.

Is Crawl Cove a good Lumar alternative?
Crawl Cove is a desktop SEO crawler that explains the fix for every issue, puts Google Search Console, Bing and Core Web Vitals on every plan (Search Console in one click, Bing and CrUX with a free key each), and works across multiple client projects, all on your machine. Plans start from £14.99/mo with every feature included, which makes it a strong Lumar alternative for agencies and in-house SEOs.
Is Crawl Cove simpler to run than Lumar?
Yes. Lumar (formerly DeepCrawl) is built for enterprise crawling programmes with the pricing and onboarding to match. Crawl Cove installs and crawls in minutes, prices per plan, not per user, from £14.99/mo, and still gives you explained fixes plus Search Console, Bing and Core Web Vitals on every plan, Search Console in one click, Bing and CrUX with a free key each.
Does Crawl Cove keep my data private?
Yes. Crawl data and client information stay on your machine and secrets are encrypted: a local-first privacy model with no cloud account holding your crawls. Nothing is ever uploaded to us; the app contacts our servers only to verify your licence and check for updates. The exception is an integration you switch on yourself, which runs on your own account and key: Search Console, Bing and Core Web Vitals send the URLs they check to Google and Microsoft, and AI explanations, which ship switched off, send the finding and its captured HTML to the provider you choose.

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