What Siteimprove does well
- Mature reporting and governance features
- Strong enterprise procurement story
Where Siteimprove falls short
Every accessibility vendor has a target customer and a target solution. Siteimprove's shape works for some teams and badly for others. The points below come up most often when buyers move off Siteimprove and what they wish they had asked sooner.
- No AI code-fix generation
- Expensive
- Often overkill for SMB and mid-market
Why teams pick Certvo instead
- Same audit depth, plus AI-generated code patches
- Free public scan with no procurement cycle
- Pricing accessible to indie and SMB (from $29/mo)
- Reports actionable code — not just issue descriptions
Try a free public scan on the same URL you would test with Siteimprove. Compare what each tool says is wrong and how each proposes to fix it.
When you should still pick the other tool
Bluntly: if the only thing you need is a visible widget on your site (e.g. as part of a settlement consent decree that names a specific overlay product), an overlay vendor is the path of least resistance. Certvo does not ship a widget. We give you patches; the widget is only a UI for the audit.
If you have an enterprise procurement process that already has a long-running contract with a competitor and the buying motion would take six months to switch, you can use Certvo alongside as the audit-and-fix tool while the widget keeps sitting on the page.
Frequently asked questions
What does Siteimprove cost and who is it for?
Siteimprove is enterprise SaaS with annual contracts typically starting around $10,000 per year and scaling with page volume and user seats. It is designed for large organisations with dedicated digital governance teams, procurement processes, and multi-department compliance programmes. For a startup or SMB wanting to pass a WCAG audit before an EAA enforcement date, Siteimprove is overkill — the sales cycle alone can take months.
Does Siteimprove generate code fixes?
Siteimprove generates detailed audit reports with issue descriptions, WCAG references, and remediation guidance — but it does not generate code patches. Developers still have to write the fixes themselves after reading the report. Certvo generates AI-produced code changes (HTML, CSS, JSX) that a developer reviews and merges, reducing the time from audit finding to shipped fix.
When should an SMB choose Siteimprove over Certvo?
If your organisation needs executive-level compliance dashboards, multi-site governance across a large portfolio (50+ sites), integration with your enterprise procurement and vendor management system, or a long-standing platform with mature PDF and document accessibility reporting, Siteimprove's breadth may justify the cost. For teams primarily wanting to find and fix WCAG issues on their web properties, Certvo covers the same ground at a fraction of the price.