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Lumar vs SISTRIX

Lumar logo

Lumar

SEO

Website intelligence platform, formerly DeepCrawl, that can fail a build on SEO and accessibility regressions

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On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite
SISTRIX logo

SISTRIX

SEO

German SEO toolbox built around a domain Visibility Index measured weekly since 2008

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On request
Rated
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Full reviewWebsite

The short version

  • Each has a real cost: Lumar the crawl allowance is measured in URLs per month, so full crawls of a large site exhaust it quickly and teams end up sampling, which is exactly how regressions escape.; SISTRIX coverage is deepest in German-speaking Europe and thinner in the United States and Asia, so international teams still need Ahrefs or Semrush alongside it.
  • They diverge on capability: Lumar covers Site crawler, SISTRIX covers Visibility Index.
  • Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.

Where they differ

Only the attributes on which Lumar and SISTRIX actually diverge.

Attributes where Lumar and SISTRIX differ
AttributeLumarSISTRIX

Identical on both: starting price (On request), pricing model (quote), free tier (No), platforms (Web, REST API), user rating (Not yet rated), category (SEO).

What each one covers

Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.

Only in Lumar

  • Site crawler
  • Protect
  • Automation Hub
  • Accessibility auditing
  • Monitor
  • Impact

Only in SISTRIX

  • Visibility Index
  • Competitor discovery
  • SERP feature tracking
  • Link module
  • Optimizer
  • Country coverage

What people use each for

The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.

Lumar

  • A site deploying weekly that keeps shipping accidental noindex tags and blocked resources into productionnot SISTRIX
  • Comparing crawls before and after a migration to prove what changed rather than what looks wrong nownot SISTRIX
  • Reporting accessibility and technical SEO issues from one crawl to satisfy two different internal ownersnot SISTRIX
  • Prioritising a backlog of thousands of technical issues by estimated traffic impact rather than severity labelnot SISTRIX

SISTRIX

  • Reporting search visibility to a board in Germany where the Visibility Index is the expected metricnot Lumar
  • Comparing a domain against competitors over years, including before you started tracking anythingnot Lumar
  • Due diligence on an acquisition target where you need visibility history you did not collect yourselfnot Lumar
  • Diagnosing whether a traffic drop coincided with a core update by comparing against the whole measured marketnot Lumar

Where each one falls short

Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.

Lumar

  • The crawl allowance is measured in URLs per month, so full crawls of a large site exhaust it quickly and teams end up sampling, which is exactly how regressions escape.
  • It provides no keyword, ranking or backlink data, so it is always an addition to the SEO budget rather than a consolidation of it.
  • The pipeline gating that justifies the price needs engineering adoption, and a marketing budget cannot buy that agreement.
  • Log file analysis is not the core strength it is at Botify, so crawl budget diagnosis on very large sites is weaker.
  • The 2022 rebrand from DeepCrawl means much of the community knowledge, tutorials and older documentation is filed under the previous name.

SISTRIX

  • Coverage is deepest in German-speaking Europe and thinner in the United States and Asia, so international teams still need Ahrefs or Semrush alongside it.
  • The Visibility Index is domain-level, so a dramatic chart movement can come entirely from pages that carry no commercial value and requires drilling down before it means anything.
  • The link index is smaller than the market leaders, which matters if backlink discovery rather than visibility measurement is your main use.
  • Modules are priced individually, so a team that needs SEO, links and the Optimizer pays a multiple of the entry price for one module.
  • Documentation, community material and support are German-first, and while English is available the depth of the two is not equal.

Pricing, plan by plan

Lumar

On request
  • Lumar$undefined/year
    • Priced by URLs crawled per month
    • Protect, Impact and accessibility modules licensed separately
    • Annual contract

SISTRIX

On request
  • SISTRIX Toolbox$undefined/month
    • Sold as monthly modules rather than one bundled plan
    • Additional countries and Optimizer projects priced on top
    • Monthly term without long commitment

Which should you pick?

Choose Lumar if

  • You need site crawler.
  • You work on Web, REST API.
  • You also want protect.
Lumar review

Choose SISTRIX if

  • You need visibility index.
  • You work on Web, REST API.
  • You also want competitor discovery.
SISTRIX review

Questions people ask

Is Lumar or SISTRIX better?
Neither clearly leads. Lumar starts at On request and SISTRIX at On request, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
Which is cheaper, Lumar or SISTRIX?
Lumar starts at On request and SISTRIX at On request.
Does Lumar or SISTRIX run on more platforms?
Both run on Web, REST API, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
What is Lumar best used for?
Lumar is most often used for a site deploying weekly that keeps shipping accidental noindex tags and blocked resources into production, comparing crawls before and after a migration to prove what changed rather than what looks wrong now, reporting accessibility and technical seo issues from one crawl to satisfy two different internal owners, prioritising a backlog of thousands of technical issues by estimated traffic impact rather than severity label. Of those, a site deploying weekly that keeps shipping accidental noindex tags and blocked resources into production and comparing crawls before and after a migration to prove what changed rather than what looks wrong now are not what SISTRIX is typically brought in for.
What can Lumar do that SISTRIX cannot?
Lumar covers Site crawler, Protect, Automation Hub, Accessibility auditing. SISTRIX covers Visibility Index, Competitor discovery, SERP feature tracking, Link module.

Answered from the vendors’ own pages

Lumar: Is Lumar the same as DeepCrawl?

Yes, the same company and product line, rebranded in 2022. Older tutorials under the DeepCrawl name still broadly apply.

SISTRIX: What is the Visibility Index actually measuring?

Rankings for a large fixed keyword set per country, weighted by expected traffic, measured weekly. It is not your keyword list, which is what makes it comparable.

Lumar: Can it really block a deployment?

Yes, through Automation Hub integrated into your CI pipeline. Whether your engineering team accepts that gate is the real question.

SISTRIX: Can it replace Ahrefs or Semrush?

For German-language visibility reporting and competitor history, yes. For global keyword research and backlink analysis it is a complement rather than a replacement.

Lumar: Does it replace Screaming Frog?

For scheduled monitoring and pipeline testing, yes. For quick ad hoc crawls on a laptop, the desktop crawler remains faster and cheaper.

SISTRIX: How far back does the data go?

To 2008 for the earliest supported countries, which is longer than any rank tracker can offer on your own keyword list.

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