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No monthly fee. No annual licence. No card on file. Try an instant check, then buy one-time credits from $9 to audit your whole site: credits never expire.

Last reviewed · 1 Oct 20265 primary sources →Kalenux engineering
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✓No card on file✓No auto-renew✓Credits never expire
three ways to pay · 12 monthsillustrative
Subscription$100–250 / mo
Billed every month, used or not
Lifetime deal$59–990 upfront
Pre-pay for capacity you may not use
Kalenux creditsfrom $9
Pay only when you audit
why pay monthly to audit your own site?

Year-round bills, for a tool you open a few times a month.

Almost every SEO crawler now bills monthly or annually: even the “cheap” ones. Here’s the same year of four audits, three ways.

SUBSCRIPTIONPAYS FOR TIME
$1,200–3,000a year
■ month you audited■ paid, unused
Subscriptions add up$100–250/mo suites, “budget” tools at £95/mo, annual licences: billed whether you run 2 audits or 200.
LIFETIME DEALPAYS FOR CAPACITY
$59–990upfront
■ used▨ pre-paid, idle
Lifetime deals overcharge upfrontDeals like Screpy ($59) or Ubersuggest LTD ($290+) pre-pay for unlimited access you may never fully use.
KALENUX CREDITSPAYS FOR AUDITS
from $9one-time
■ credit spentnothing charged
Pay per auditOne-time credits. A few sites cost a few dollars. Credits never expire, shared across all your sites.
Illustrative year with 4 audits · prices from the comparison and pricing pages
one-time pricing

Credits that never expire.

The same year of occasional audits, as two receipts.

MONTHLY SEO SUITE12 invoices
Janaudited$129
Febno audits run$129
Marno audits run$129
Apraudited$129
Mayno audits run$129
Junno audits run$129
Julno audits run$129
Augaudited$129
Sepno audits run$129
Octno audits run$129
Novaudited$129
Decno audits run$129
TOTAL · 1 YEAR$1,548
8 of 12 months paid for nothing
KALENUX · STARTER PACK1 purchase
Jan50 credits · one-time$9
CREDITS USED THIS YEAR
JFMAMJJASOND
4 audits run · 46 credits left · never expire
TOTAL · 1 YEAR$9
No card on file · nothing renews
Illustrative year · $129/mo suite from the comparison guide · 4 audits run
STARTER
$9one-time
50 audits≈ $0.18 / audit
Best for: The occasional audit
GROWTHMOST POPULAR
$19one-time
150 audits≈ $0.13 / audit
Best for: Regular checks
PRO
$49one-time
500 audits≈ $0.10 / audit
Best for: Many client sites
See full pricing →Compare vs Screaming Frog & Ahrefs
what each audit covers

A full site-wide crawl, not a one-page checker.

Every credit buys the whole crawl: six areas, 240+ checks, with the kind of findings each one surfaces.

240+checks per crawlevery site, every run
1 creditper 500 pagesPageSpeed is 2 credits
CSVexport per auditfree, any time
⛓AREA 01Links & redirects
Broken links, chains, broken redirects, orphan pages.
  • ✓Internal links returning 4xx / 5xx
  • ✓Redirect chains longer than one hop
  • ✓Redirects that end in an error
  • ✓Orphan pages with no internal links
EXAMPLE FINDING/pricing-2023 → 301 → 301 → 200
WHY IT MATTERSDead ends waste crawl budget and leak the link equity you earned.
Try the free Broken Link Checker →
⊘AREA 02Indexability
Noindex, canonical errors, dropped pages, sitemap mismatches.
  • ✓noindex in meta or X-Robots-Tag
  • ✓Canonicals pointing to redirects or 404s
  • ✓Pages dropped from the index
  • ✓Sitemap URLs that aren’t indexable
EXAMPLE FINDING/services/ noindex · in sitemap
WHY IT MATTERSThe fastest way sites lose traffic: often from one template change.
Try the free Indexability Checker →
⌘AREA 03Meta & schema
Titles, descriptions, Open Graph, JSON-LD errors.
  • ✓Missing, duplicate or truncated titles
  • ✓Missing or duplicate descriptions
  • ✓Open Graph tags for link previews
  • ✓Invalid or incomplete JSON-LD
EXAMPLE FINDINGtitle × 41 pages · "Products | Site"
WHY IT MATTERSTitles are your listing on the results page, and one of the easiest wins.
Try the free Meta Tag Checker →
⚡AREA 04PageSpeed & Core Web Vitals
Real per-URL metrics, slow pages, render-blocking assets.
  • ✓LCP, INP and CLS per page
  • ✓Mobile and desktop separately
  • ✓Slowest templates ranked
  • ✓Render-blocking CSS and JS
EXAMPLE FINDINGLCP 4.1 s · hero.jpg 1.4 MB
WHY IT MATTERSSpeed is the first thing a visitors feel, and it’s easy to measure before and after.
Try the free PageSpeed Test →
🌐AREA 05International SEO
Hreflang correctness, language mismatches, missing reciprocals.
  • ✓Missing return links between locales
  • ✓Invalid language or region codes
  • ✓Missing self-references and x-default
  • ✓Alternates pointing at non-200 URLs
EXAMPLE FINDING/fr/ → /de/ · no return link
WHY IT MATTERSOne missing tag can make search engines ignore a whole language cluster.
Try the free Hreflang Checker →
▤AREA 06Sitemaps & robots
Sitemap and robots.txt issues that block correct crawling.
  • ✓Sitemap discovered and valid XML
  • ✓Listed URLs returning non-200
  • ✓Important paths blocked in robots.txt
  • ✓Sitemap declared in robots.txt
EXAMPLE FINDINGDisallow: /blog/ · 212 URLs blocked
WHY IT MATTERSA stray rule can hide an entire section of your site from Google.
Try the free Sitemap Validator →
pay-per-audit vs a lifetime deal

A lifetime deal is still pre-paying.

Credits work the other way round: you’re charged per audit, so you never buy headroom you won’t touch.

LIFETIME DEAL$59–990upfront, for unlimited access
capacity boughtcapacity used
Most of it paid for, never used
KALENUX CREDITSfrom $9pay per audit, buy again when you run out
capacity boughtcapacity used
Shared across every site · never expires
switching from a monthly seo tool

Paying $100+/month for a fraction of it?

Here’s how to move the technical piece to pay-once, without losing anything you actually use.

  1. STEP 1 OF 3Look at the last 3 monthsWork out what you use it for
    Keyword researchrarely
    Backlink analysisrarely
    Rank trackingsometimes
    Technical auditevery week

    Most people open their suite for keyword research and technical audits. If you rarely touch the keyword side, you’re paying a full subscription for the audit alone.

  2. STEP 2 OF 3Nothing lostKeep keywords, move the audit
    KEEPKeyword researchRank trackingcheaper or free tool
    MOVE →Technical auditPageSpeedKalenux credits

    Keep a cheaper or free keyword option and move the technical audit to one-time credits: cutting the expensive subscription while keeping every capability.

  3. STEP 3 OF 3Free to startRun a baseline, then cancel
    Audit every sitefree first credit
    Export reports to CSVkeep your baseline
    Cancel the subscriptiononce coverage matches
    Credits stayfor next time

    Audit your sites once with Kalenux (free to start) and export the reports. Once it covers your checks, cancel. Your credits sit there for next time.

THE RESULT · TECHNICAL SIDEBEFORE$100+ every month→AFTERfrom $9 once, never expiresRun the free baseline →
Usage bars in step 1 are an illustrative example
frequently asked questions

Short answers about paying once.

Q1

What’s free, and what costs a credit?

INSTANT CHECK FREE

1 free credit on signup. Audits: 1 credit / 500 pages; PageSpeed: 2. Results and exports are free.

Q2

Do I need a credit card to sign up?

NO

No payment details until you choose to buy a pack.

Q3

What happens to unused credits?

THEY STAY

No monthly reset, no expiry: a pack bought this year is still there next year.

Q4

Any recurring charge at all?

NONE

No subscription tier, no card on file. Each pack is one purchase via Creem.

Q5

One-time pricing vs a lifetime deal?

OPPOSITE MODELS

A lifetime deal pre-pays in a lump sum. Credits: buy small, spend on real audits.

in depth · 5 primary sources

How the big suites are actually priced.

The facts behind this page, from search-engine documentation and each vendor’s own pages. Prices change, so check the linked pages for current figures.

01Most suites bill monthly

Ahrefs and Semrush sell tiered monthly or annual plans that bundle audits with keyword, backlink and rank-tracking tools [1][2].

If you only need the technical audit, most of that bundle goes unused, which is the case for paying per audit instead.

02Desktop crawlers use yearly licences

Screaming Frog is licensed per user per year, with a free version capped at 500 URLs [3]. Sitebulb also sells subscription licences [4].

KEY FACTAll four vendors publish current prices on the pages linked below; check them before comparing [1][2][3][4].

03Whatever you pay, verify with Google

Search Console’s Page indexing report is free and shows what Google actually indexed [5]. Use it to confirm an audit’s findings, whichever tool produced them.

References

  1. [1]Ahrefs pricing · Ahrefsahrefs.com/pricing
  2. [2]Semrush plans and pricing · Semrushwww.semrush.com/prices/
  3. [3]Screaming Frog SEO Spider pricing · Screaming Frogwww.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/pricing/
  4. [4]Sitebulb pricing · Sitebulbsitebulb.com/pricing/
  5. [5]Page indexing report · Search Console Helpsupport.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203
CITE THIS PAGEKalenux. (2026). SEO audit with no subscription: one-time pricing. Kalenux SEO Guide. Last reviewed 1 Oct 2026. kalenux.com.tr/seo-audit-no-subscription
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$GUIDE · PRICINGAffordable SEO audit
Every tier from free to $49, what each covers, and why cheap isn’t cut-down.
USE IT WHENYou want a full technical audit without a monthly bill.
  • ✓Free instant check + free first audit
  • ✓Credit packs from $9
  • ✓Software vs a consultant
Read the guide→
⇄GUIDE · COMPARISONKalenux vs Screaming Frog vs Ahrefs
A 16-row, side-by-side look at where each tool wins and what each costs over a year.
USE IT WHENYou’re choosing between a desktop crawler, a keyword suite and a technical auditor.
  • ✓Price and billing model
  • ✓Checks, PageSpeed and Search Console data
  • ✓Where a suite still wins
Read the comparison→
◫GUIDE · AGENCIESSEO audit for agencies
One shared credit pool across every client site, with no per-seat bill.
USE IT WHENYou audit several client sites and want repeatable, cheap crawls.
  • ✓≈ $0.10 per audit
  • ✓Per-site health tracking
  • ✓CSV export for your reports
Read the guide→
◎PACKSPricing
Four packs, what a credit buys, and the 14-day refund on unused credits.
USE IT WHENYou’re ready to pick a pack or want the exact credit costs.
  • ✓Free, $9, $19 and $49 packs
  • ✓1 credit per 500 pages; PageSpeed 2
  • ✓Credits never expire
See pricing→

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