Backlink Pilot vs LinkChecker.pro (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Backlink Pilot if

• Fits if you keep placed links in a spreadsheet today and check them by hand
• Works for agencies running reciprocal or three-way link exchanges with many partners

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you want backlinks discovered, as it only watches links you add or import
• Tight if you stay free, as the cap is 100 links and they're checked once a month
• Too light for portfolios over 5,000 links, where the largest published plan stops
• Not for you if your links need to flow into other tools, as no integrations or API are on record
• Watch out: paid plans are bought only from your profile inside the app, after you sign up free

Pick LinkChecker.pro if

• Fits if your agency has thousands of placed links to keep live and indexed
• Works for teams comparing output across individual link builders

Look elsewhere if

• Not for you if you want to try the monitoring free, as there's no free plan or trial and refunds run 7 days
• Tight if you're on Lite, with one user and 400 backlinks
• Watch out: every plan caps monitored backlinks, redirects and monthly rescans
• Watch out: the monthly and yearly cards give different backlink and user limits for some Pro tiers
• Skip it if you want competitor data of its own, as that comes through Ahrefs, Majestic and Moz

Backlink Pilot

• It only monitors links you add or import; finding new backlinks is outside the product.
• The free plan checks links once a month; weekly checks need a paid plan.
• The largest published plan stops at 5,000 links.
• Every account starts on the free plan, and paid plans are bought from inside the app.

LinkChecker.pro

• There is no free plan or free trial for monitoring; refunds can be requested within 7 days of subscribing.
• Only the Lite plan is single-user; every plan caps monitored backlinks, redirects and monthly rescans.
• The pricing page shows different backlink and user limits for some Pro tiers on the monthly and yearly cards.
• Its own data comes from checking your links; competitor metrics come through the Ahrefs, Majestic and Moz integrations.

Backlink Pilot

Link checks

Revisits each linking page to confirm the destination URL is still there, the anchor text matches and the follow status is what was agreed.

Check frequency

Links are checked monthly on the free plan and weekly on paid plans, and each placement shows when it was last checked.

CSV import

Upload an existing link sheet with its partners by CSV, or add new placements one at a time as they go live.

Clients and partners

Sort placements by client and by partner, and track links received alongside links given in return.

Exchange ledger

Groups the partners and placements in each reciprocal or ABC exchange, so the whole deal stays attached to the links it produced.

Health queue and monthly report

One list shows every placement with its crawl result, including missing, nofollow and forbidden links, plus a monthly health report.

LinkChecker.pro

Daily backlink checks

Each tracked link is checked every day for removal, broken pages, attribute changes and redirects, with alerts and reports when one goes wrong.

Google index checks

Scans Google's index every 5 days to confirm the pages holding your links are indexed, since an unindexed page passes little value.

Team and budget tracking

Shows statistics for each link builder on a team and how much of the link budget went to links that were later deleted or went inactive.

Batch analysis

Checks thousands of URLs or domains at once for status, IP, Whois, Wayback Machine history and indexing, within the plan's monthly quota.

Brand, insertion and DMCA alerts

Finds unlinked brand mentions, warns when someone adds a link to your article without approval and alerts you to DMCA notices against it.

Free Chrome extension

Checks the links, anchors, redirects and index status of any page in Chrome, with no account needed.

Backlink Pilot

• Free$0

  Up to 100 links checked once a month, with unlimited clients and partners.

• Starter$15

  per month for up to 500 links

  Weekly link checks for up to 500 links.

• Agency$29

  per month for up to 2,000 links

  Weekly link checks for up to 2,000 links.

• Scale$59

  per month for up to 5,000 links

  Weekly link checks for up to 5,000 links.

LinkChecker.pro

• Lite$20.8

  per month for 400 backlinks, billed yearly ($25 billed monthly)

  1 user, 100 monitored redirects, 200 rescans a month, 4,000 batch URL checks and 800 batch index checks. $250 a year.

• Standard$41.7

  per month for 1,000 backlinks, billed yearly ($50 billed monthly)

  5 users, 300 redirects, 300 rescans a month, 10,000 batch URL checks and 2,000 batch index checks. $500 a year.

• Pro$83.3

  per month for 2,500 backlinks, billed yearly ($100 billed monthly)

  15 users, 600 redirects, 500 rescans a month, 25,000 batch URL checks and 5,000 batch index checks. $1,000 a year.

• Pro 4K$127.5

  per month for 4,500 backlinks, billed yearly ($153 billed monthly)

  About 20 users and 1,000 redirects. Pro 6K ($183.3) and Pro 8K ($213.3 a month, billed yearly) sit between this and Pro 12K.

• Pro 12K$300

  per month, billed yearly ($360 billed monthly)

  12,000 backlinks on the monthly card but 22,000 on the yearly one, with 40 to 50 users. $3,600 a year.

• Custom planCustom

  Limits set to the customer's needs, with priority support, for agencies and larger teams.

Backlink Pilot

No public discounts listed.

LinkChecker.pro

• Annual discount

  Lower monthly rate with yearly billing

  The pricing page labels yearly billing "-20%"; Lite works out at $20.8 a month ($250 a year) against $25 paid monthly.