The one-line difference
ShopGrader scores a Shopify store across 10 fixed categories: speed, SEO, mobile, products, trust, email capture, analytics, checkout, technical, ad readiness, with a $199 fix service and $99/month monitoring behind it. Shipwork audits any site from outside the network with 55 checks, and goes deep where ShopGrader stays shallow: Merchant Center feed logic, landing pages as crawlers receive them, and AI crawler access. Scores versus diagnostics.
| Shipwork | ShopGrader | |
|---|---|---|
| Access | Paste any URL, no account | Paste a Shopify URL, no login |
| Coverage | Any site; 55 checks incl. feed, AI, schema | Shopify only; 10 fixed categories |
| Shopping feed rejections | Yes: per-product, with reasons | Products category: images, descriptions, pricing (surface) |
| AI crawler access | Yes: nine named agents | No |
| They fix it for you | No: guides + checks | Yes: $199 one-time fix service |
| Monitoring | Daily watch, 12 months | $99/month monitoring |
Category by category
On speed, mobile, trust signals and checkout readiness, a 10-category score is genuinely useful. Those are surfaces Shipwork covers thinly or not at all (email capture, analytics setup and ad readiness are outside the product). On feed rejections, landing-page crawl failures and AI readability, the positions reverse: per-product Merchant Center reasons and cold-crawler page reads are the core here and absent there. Run both free audits on the same store; keep each side\u2019s findings and ignore each side\u2019s gaps.
What each one costs
Both audits are free with no login. Behind them: a $199 one-time fix service and $99/month monitoring on their side; a daily watch on ours. The fix service is the real fork: if you want someone else to do the work, that is a product we deliberately do not offer. If you want to do it yourself with diagnostics, that is a product they deliberately keep shallow.
Which store each fits
- Pick Shipwork first if: the problem is disapprovals, crawl failures, stock, or AI readability, or the site is not Shopify.
- Pick ShopGrader first if: you want a scored overview across speed, mobile, trust and checkout, or you want the $199 fix done for you.
- Use both if: you want the full picture free: their 10-category score plus these feed, crawler and AI diagnostics.
Related: vs Feed Doctor · vs Feed Rescue · the free audit itself
The free audit runs every check that applies to your site in under a minute. Feed, crawler and AI diagnostics with the exact fix for each finding. Free, no account, no signup. Paste your store address.
Run the free auditQuestions
- Which free Shopify audit is better?
- Different strengths. ShopGrader scores 10 categories including speed, mobile and checkout with a fix service behind it. Shipwork goes deep on feed rejections, landing pages as crawlers see them, and AI access. Run both; keep both sides\u2019 findings.
- Does ShopGrader check Google Shopping feeds?
- Its products category covers images, descriptions and pricing at the surface. Per-product Merchant Center rejection reasons with the rule behind each is the feed-check\u2019s job.
- Does Shipwork fix issues for me?
- No: guides and checks, you do the work. The $199 done-for-you fix is their product, not ours.
- Can I use both for free?
- Yes: both audits are free with no login. That is the honest recommendation when the findings do not overlap.
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