Level Access vs Siteimprove

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Enterprise contracts combining platform licence with audit and advisory services.

Enterprise annual contracts priced by pages crawled and modules.

No free tier.

Free browser extension for single-page checks.

Established

Level Access · since 1997

Widely used

Siteimprove · since 2003

• Human expert audits and assistive-technology user testing alongside the tooling.
• Legal and VPAT support for organisations under compliance pressure.
• Covers web, mobile and desktop applications.

• Scans entire large sites and assigns findings to content owners, not just developers.
• Combines accessibility with SEO and content quality in one governance view.
• Reporting suited to demonstrating compliance progress to executives and regulators.

• Expensive, services-heavy engagement model.
• The UserWay overlay heritage is contentious — automated overlays are widely criticised by accessibility practitioners.
• Not a self-serve developer tool.

• Expensive and aimed at organisations with a governance function.
• Weak fit for application testing as opposed to content sites.
• Limited shift-left developer tooling compared to Deque.

Organisations facing accessibility litigation or formal procurement requirements.

Universities, government and large content organisations with legal accessibility obligations.