Picked by use case, not by marketing budget.
Sitebulb is one of the friendliest desktop crawlers — better reports than Screaming Frog, smaller learning curve. But it's still desktop-shaped (or scheduled cloud crawls). If you want audits that run in code or on demand, look here.
If you spend most of your Sitebulb time on site audits and you'd rather get JSON your code can act on, SEO Score API is the cheapest, fastest path. If you rely on Sitebulb for backlinks, keyword research, or rank tracking, no API-first tool will fully replace it. For a direct feature-by-feature breakdown, see SEO Score API vs Sitebulb.
Run an audit before you commit to anything.