Docket vs Sitechecker
Sitechecker is a cloud SEO platform from $99–$449/mo. It overlaps with Docket on crawling and very little else, and the honest headline is that it answers questions Docket refuses to answer at all.
What Sitechecker does that Docket does not
- Rank tracking. Its rank tracker keeps SERP history for the keywords you track. Docket does not track rankings, and says so on its own home page: that needs a crawled index of the whole web, which is bought rather than built.
- AI brand visibility. Its AI visibility tracker covers five models — ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Perplexity and Copilot — and reports brand visibility, mentions and citations. This is the one worth reading twice, because it looks like something Docket does and is not.
- Search Console and Analytics dashboards, and website monitoring that tracks changes over time. Docket audits a site at a moment; it is not a monitor.
The AI distinction, stated against our own interest
Docket checks AI access: whether each of 19 named crawlers is permitted by your robots.txt, and whether your server actually agrees with that file, since a CDN rule refusing a crawler is invisible in a file that allows it. That is a question about your configuration, and it is answerable from outside with certainty.
Sitechecker is answering a different question: whether an assistant currently mentions you. That is a measurement of an outcome, and Docket does not make it. Every AI figure this site publishes is about access rather than about being quoted, and we have been careful to say so everywhere else — so it would be dishonest to imply the two overlap here. If what you want to know is whether ChatGPT names your brand today, Docket cannot tell you and Sitechecker is built to.
The two are complements more than alternatives. Access is a precondition: a crawler that cannot read your pages will not cite them, which is what Docket can prove and fix. Whether citation then happens is a question about the model, and needs a tool that watches the model.
What Docket adds
97 checks across thirteen areas, including conversion and brand consistency, which do not appear in Sitechecker's listed core tools. Findings arrive as a ranked plan with the fix written out rather than as a dashboard — the ordering formula is published. It runs on your Mac with no account, so nothing about your site is uploaded. And it is $349 once rather than a monthly bill.
That last one is the plainest difference. A year on Sitechecker's entry plan costs several times what Docket costs in total, and the second year costs the same again. Set against that: a subscription buys continuous monitoring and rank history, which a tool you run on demand cannot give you at any price.
Which to buy
- Buy Sitechecker if you need rank tracking, ongoing monitoring, or to know whether AI assistants are mentioning your brand.
- Buy Docket if you want a deep one-off audit of what is wrong and in what order, including conversion and brand, without an account or a recurring bill.
Nothing here compares the quality of the two crawlers' output, because that has not been measured. Both vendors' published feature lists are what this page is built from.
Checked 16 September 2026. The factual claims about this product were read from its own pages on that date: its plans are priced 99, 249 and 449 US dollars a month, discounted to 83, 208 and 375 a month when paid annually (source); every plan is listed as including unlimited users, unlimited recrawls, AI search visibility tracking, GSC and GA4 insights, and a rank tracker with SERP history (source); its AI visibility tracker covers five models — ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Perplexity and Copilot — for brand visibility and for mentions and citations (source); its core tools are listed as website crawler, website monitoring, rank tracker, GSC dashboard, SEO dashboard and AI visibility tracker (source). Products change and pricing changes; if something here has gone out of date, tell us and it will be corrected. Everything else on this page is a comparison of approach, not a claim about their roadmap.
Docket is a one-time download for macOS. No account, no crawl credits, and the crawl runs
on your machine. Five optional checks fetch data it cannot produce alone; --offline
turns all five off. Download Docket →
Common questions
Is Docket a Sitechecker alternative?
Only partly, and the gap matters. Sitechecker tracks keyword rankings and whether five AI models mention your brand. Docket does neither. Docket audits what is wrong with your site and ranks the fixes, and checks whether AI crawlers are allowed to reach you in the first place.
Does Docket track AI visibility like Sitechecker?
No, and the difference is worth being precise about. Sitechecker measures whether assistants mention you — an outcome. Docket measures whether their crawlers can read you — 19 of them by name, comparing your robots.txt against what your server actually returns. Access is a precondition for citation, not the same thing as it.
Which is cheaper?
Docket, unless you need one audit and then cancel. Docket is $349 once; Sitechecker starts at $99–$449/mo and keeps billing. What the subscription buys is continuous monitoring and rank history, which a tool you run on demand cannot provide.
Does Sitechecker limit how much you can crawl?
Its plans advertise unlimited recrawls, so crawl volume is not the difference between these two. The limits it publishes are on projects and tracked keywords. Docket has no limits of either kind, because there is no account.