Cloud Overview

Local audits are free and unlimited, forever. The cloud exists to do only what your machine can’t:

• AI analysis - page classification, site-type detection, parsability scoring, authority assessment
• Browser rendering - audit JavaScript-heavy sites with a real headless browser
• Shared data - full adblock/privacy filter lists, a global dead-link cache, search demand data
• Publishing & teams - publish reports, track issues over time, share with your team in the dashboard

Cloud features are priced in credits. Every new account gets 1,000 free credits - no card required.

Getting started

squirrel auth login

That’s it. Your next squirrel audit automatically includes the cloud rules - results merge into the same report alongside the local rules.

squirrel credits   # check your balance and pricing

How cloud rules behave

• Logged in - cloud rules run as part of the audit. Calls are batched during a dedicated cloud phase, and spend is shown in the audit summary.
• Logged out - cloud rules report skipped with a hint to log in. Your audit still completes; nothing fails.
• Out of credits or service down - same thing: rules skip, the audit completes, you see a one-line warning.

You stay in control of spend with a per-audit credit cap and a confirmation prompt for larger runs. See Credits & Pricing.

What’s in the cloud

Publishing reports

Publishing a report to the dashboard costs 2 credits and gives you a shareable URL plus issue history for the site:

squirrel audit https://example.com --publish

See Reports for publishing details.

Privacy

Cloud analysis works on slim page summaries - URL, title, and a short text excerpt - never your full raw HTML. Third-party data providers are proxied through our API; your pages are never sent to them directly.