The Botify alternative for log analysis with a free plan
See what Googlebot and AI crawlers fetch, which bots are fake and whether the crawl earns clicks, with public prices. Plus Core Web Vitals from real users, indexing and robots.txt, then uptime and SSL.
Log analysis with prices you can see first
Botify is a broad enterprise platform for search and AI visibility. Many sites need one part of it: what crawlers do, and whether it pays off.
Prices behind a demo
Botify publishes no prices. To find out what log analysis would cost, you book a demo first.
A broad platform
Crawl automation, content generation and catalog tools are shaped for very large sites. A smaller site may only need its logs read well.
Crawl data on its own
Crawl data explains part of a drop. Speed, indexing, robots.txt and outages explain the rest, and they live in other tools.
What you get when you move from Botify
- Each request is checked against the bot's published IP ranges or reverse DNS: Verified, Fake, Failed the check or Cannot be checked.Server Log Monitoring01 / 04
Botify vs VitalSentinel
| Feature |  VitalSentinel | Botify |
|---|---|---|
| Crawling | ||
| Server log analysis | ||
| AI crawler tracking | ||
| Crawl budget and crawl waste | ||
| Site crawler | ||
| Millions of pages in one crawl | ||
| Search | ||
| Keyword analytics from search data | ||
| SEO changes deployed from the platform | ||
| Web performance | ||
| Real User Monitoring (RUM) | ||
| Availability | ||
| Uptime Monitoring | ||
| Plans | ||
| Public prices and a free plan |
Comparison based on publicly available information. Botify is a trademark of its owner; VitalSentinel is not affiliated with or endorsed by Botify. Last updated: October 30, 2026
Pricing compared
- 1 domain
- All 12 modules
- 500K log hits a month through the Cloudflare Worker
- No credit card
- 5 domains
- 10M log hits a month, every log source
- Up to 10,000 pages checked per domain
- Slack and webhook alerts
- No public prices
- SiteCrawler, LogAnalyzer, RealKeywords, PageWorkers and more
VitalSentinel publishes every price, up to Advanced at $449 a month with 100M log hits. Botify quotes each customer, so compare once you have its number.
Botify publishes no prices: its pricing page offers a demo. Our prices exclude VAT. Last updated: October 30, 2026.
Where Botify is the better pick
For a large enterprise site that wants one platform to find and fix search issues, Botify has real strengths.
Crawls at enterprise scale
Botify's SiteCrawler crawls millions of pages in one crawl, rendering JavaScript like Googlebot. VitalSentinel monitors rather than audits: it rechecks up to 10,000 pages per domain around the clock and tracks up to 100,000.
Fixes, not only findings
PageWorkers deploys SEO changes and SpeedWorkers serves content to bots and agents quickly. VitalSentinel reports what to fix, and your team makes the change.
Built for large retail
Botify's catalog, internal linking and content tools are shaped for large retailers and brands. VitalSentinel is built for site owners, SEO specialists and agencies of every size.
If you want server logs, a site crawl and search data next to Core Web Vitals and uptime, with public prices, that is where VitalSentinel fits.
Moving over from Botify
Start with the logs. The Cloudflare Worker is on every plan, and file sources can backfill up to a year of history on paid plans.
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Start free
Create an account and add your domain.
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Connect your logs
Deploy the Cloudflare Worker, or on a paid plan connect SFTP, FTPS, S3, R2, Google Cloud Storage or a file upload.
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Connect Google Search Console
Link your property so Crawl vs results can put the crawl next to impressions and clicks.
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Pick an alert template
Add alerts such as "Crawlers get server errors" and "Googlebot visits much less". Slack and webhooks come from Lite up.
It helps to have everything in one place, so I can stop paying for a few tools and use one with all the information I need.
“Vital Tool for Quick Website Checks”
The first screen shows the main technical issues across all my projects, so I can quickly get a handle on the situation with each website. … Checking every website for problems used to take a lot of time, but now it is much faster.
See what crawlers do on your site
Googlebot, AI crawlers and fake bots, read from your own server logs.