Comparison
Crawlmind vs Lumar
An honest feature-by-feature comparison. Updated 2026-05-17.
Lumar (formerly DeepCrawl) is the enterprise-grade cloud crawler used by some of the largest publishers and e-commerce sites to monitor technical health at the 10M+ URL scale. Crawlmind is the AI-discoverability companion crawler — narrower technical depth, broader AI-search surface, lighter pricing for mid-market.
| Feature | Crawlmind | Lumar |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Cloud SaaS | Cloud SaaS — enterprise tier |
| Crawl scale ceiling | 10K URLs per crawl (Pro), 100K+ (Enterprise) | 10M+ URLs per crawl — industry-leading |
| Technical-SEO + AI rule depth | 70+ rules incl. real CWV + AI discoverability | 200+ rules + custom rule engine |
| Custom extraction | Limited | Yes — JS-based custom field extraction across the crawl |
| JSON-LD validation | Yes — Google + AI-engine scoring | Yes — extraction + Google validation |
| llms.txt audit | Built-in — detect, validate, draft | Not natively supported (custom rule possible) |
| AI crawler access matrix | Per-bot allow/block (12 bots tracked) | Custom user-agent crawls supported |
| AI citation tracking | Perplexity / ChatGPT / Gemini daily | Not supported |
| Pricing transparency | Public $0 / $29 / $149 / Enterprise | Sales-led — quoted per crawl volume + seats |
| Time-to-first-value | 5 min self-serve | Days — onboarding + scoping call |
| Free tier | 5 crawls / month, no card | Demo on request |
When Lumar wins
If you're running a 10M+ URL e-commerce or publisher site and need crawl scheduling, custom-rule extraction, Looker/BigQuery integration, and a customer-success team on Slack — Lumar is the right tool. It's built for enterprise SEO leads with seven-figure budgets and dedicated engineering pairing.
When Crawlmind wins
Lumar's surface is Google-era technical SEO at enterprise scale. It doesn't cover llms.txt detection, per-AI-bot policy scoring, AI citation tracking across Perplexity / ChatGPT / Gemini, or atomic-answer + entity-clarity checks. If AI search is on your roadmap, you'll need a separate tool — Crawlmind ships those checks out of the box at $0–$149 / month with no sales call.
Can you use both?
Yes, and many of our enterprise customers do. Lumar runs nightly at full-site scale for technical health; Crawlmind runs weekly on the top-traffic templates for AI readiness + citation monitoring.
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